Italy

• 11 of Our Best Weekend Reads

  How two nonprofits took on Amazon and won, hand-clapping games from around the world and wedding websites that promise to stop romanticizing weddings at former slave plantations.

  Posted: December 7, 2019 10:13 am by NY Times

• A Ruby Anniversary With Emeralds, Steel and Diamonds, Too

  Lucia Silvestri, Bulgari’s creative director, is marking 40 years with the house.

  Posted: December 6, 2019 5:10 am by NY Times

• Armenia adoption report is false-Colli

  Never considered adopting a child says refereeing great

  Posted: December 6, 2019 3:40 pm by ANSA

• Call It a Crime of Pasta

  The famous pasta-making women of Bari, Italy, are worried that a crackdown on contraband orecchiette pasta could threaten their way of life.

  Posted: December 7, 2019 9:00 am by NY Times

• Fresh clashes within govt over budget

  Renzi says plastic tax is crazy, executive could collapse

  Posted: December 6, 2019 1:15 pm by ANSA

• In Italy, Art Becomes Reality

  For centuries the craftspeople of Pietrasanta have translated artists’ ideas into marble and bronze.

  Posted: December 4, 2019 9:06 am by NY Times

• Month-on-month retail sales down in Oct

  But statistics agency reports 1% rise in year-on-year terms

  Posted: December 6, 2019 12:28 pm by ANSA

• Salvini under fire over Nutella snub

  League leader said he’d quit the spread over use of Turkish nuts

  Posted: December 6, 2019 1:58 pm by ANSA

• Smartphone 1st, last thing for Italians

  More cell phones than TVs for first time in 2018

  Posted: December 6, 2019 12:09 pm by ANSA

• The Chinese Roots of Italy’s Far-Right Rage

  The country’s new politics are often attributed to anger over migrants. But the story begins decades ago, when China first targeted small textile towns.

  Posted: December 5, 2019 1:20 pm by NY Times