Inmates at Milan’s Opera prison work on a farm named after famed gangster Al Capone. The name, Fattoria di Al Cappone, is a play on words from the Italian “capone” or capon, though the 15-or so men who work here raise quail and a few crops. In 300 square meters on prison grounds (about 3,200 [...]
Soccer fans can keep up with Champion’s League games and Italy’s Serie A games on their iPhones thanks to a free web app developed in cooperation with Sky. Stats, line-ups, photos, and play-by-plays (for the moment, in Italian only) are available at http://i.sky.it/ The web app was developed by CEFRIEL, an ICT research hub for [...]
The rolling hills of Maremma near Grosseto are normally just considered a goldmine for tourists, but after two years of searching, geologists have found “significant” gold deposits in Tuscany. “This is a land full of gold. Hundreds of indications point to it. Now the scope of our research is to search for a deposit,” geologist [...]
In 2007, British student Meredith Kercher was murdered in Italy, during a study abroad program in hill town Perugia. About a year later, Rudy Guede was sentenced to 30 years for his part in the killing, for which Kercher’s roommate, American student Amanda “Foxy Knoxy” Knox and her boyfriend, Italian IT grad, Raffaele Sollecito, are [...]
