Police in Italy arrested a 60-year-old Naples man for a concoction he made out of marijuana. They called his invention “marjiuancello,” in honor of the lemon liqueur limoncello commonly found there. Manlio Chianchiano had a home cannabis garden of 10 plants that he grew with the idea of turning his home distillery into something special. [...]
UPDATE: news reports are calling the case a hoax. The lawyers who claimed to represent the young woman now say they have no photos proving the pictures were on Facebook. A 31-year-old Italian woman, who will take vows to become a nun in the fall, is suing to have topless photos of herself removed from [...]
Modern Italian great minds are fleeing the country, unable to get valuable research done in the face of shrinking funds, nepotism, red tape, penurious salaries and colossal inefficiency. Now this drama is being turned a movie called “Il Bene Oscuro†(loose translation: the dark good), riffing on the common expression “dark evil†(il male oscuro) [...]
Just in time for summer vacation traffic, Trenitalia launched a one-line announcement likely to make it the butt of more jokes: the lost and found offices have been “temporarily suspended.” With more Italians staying closer to home in belt-tightening measures this year — 73% will not leave the country, according to one poll — trains [...]
