First female gondolier passes final exam Giorgia Boscolo
can now follow
in her father's footsteps

Venice's first ever female gondolier trainee passed her final exam this week and her name was added to an official list of those allowed to practice this age-old profession. Mother-of-two Giorgia Boscolo, 24, took courses for a year and completed an apprenticeship before taking the exam. She can now ask for a...

Miss Italy, blonde girls rebel:
"We are more precious
than brunettes"

Miss Universe is a Mexican girl with brown hair, then the 44 blonde girls that will take part in the Italian beauty contest read an article published in the newspaper La Stampa, according to which men no...

It's becoming more and more difficult to quit smoking
Women prefer cigarettes

The latest data is more alarming: in Italy, the average age of the first cigarette is 17 years old, but the limit goes down to 11 years old. So children move from milk to tobacco. Pdl MP Stefano De Lillo asked to raise from...

Summer helps to be unfaithful

Italians’ forbidden dream on the beach is unfaithfulness. According to a research carried out by Kelly Services on 10 million Italians, their bosses should worry. This American company, that deals with services for human resources, measured...

Elisabetta Canalis in trouble
A model: “We snorted
cocaine together”

“I used drugs with Elisabetta Canalis”. This is what model Karima M. said to magistrate Di Maio. The model snorted cocaine together...

The mayor of Sanremo
got rid of Belen
“She uses drugs? No festival”

“I cannot accept my city being associated with someone who does not have moral values, and if Belen uses drugs, I don’t want to see her on the Ariston stage”. This is what...

Terrible revenge: she leaves him and he uploads
a sex video on Youporn

In a more and more globalized world, revenge is put into practice on Facebook and Youporn. The ideal channels to take out the most terrible revenges. She left him five years...

Low-cost holidays,
Italians prefer “HomeExchange”

No hotel expenses or expensive summer houses. An increasing number of Italians is choosing the “HomeExchange” option, which allows you to travel all around the world only...

The psychology of relationships made in Sicily

Friends? But what type of friend? A friend to find a good job, the one not to pay extortion money, and so on. In Sicily the picture of...

di Dario La Rosa

The magic of Sicilian cinema
in tour in Paris and New York

Two events, in Paris and New York, will show some of the best films made in Sicily not only in the past, but also in the last couple of years. Last 20th of April in Paris started. “SICILIA, UOMINI E PAESAGGI” that will last until the...

Italian-led team links gene mutation to ALS 'Gene may be triggered by toxic substances'

An Italian-led study has identified a gene that could be responsible for one form of the fatal wasting disease Amyotrophic Lateral...

Two million young Italians don’t work or study
Istat report takes a picture of a decaying country

Two million young Italians don’t work or study Istat report takes a picture of a decaying country In 2009 more than two million young people (21.2 per cent aged between 15 and 29) were out of the Neet, that is, not in education, employment or...