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By August of 1918, the city of New Orleans was paralyzed by fear. In the dead of the night, the Axeman of New Orleans (as he came to be known) broke into a series of Italian groceries, attacking the grocers and their families. Some he left wounded; four people he left dead. The attacks were vicious. Joseph Maggio, for example, had his skull fractured with his own axe and his throat cut with a razor. His wife, Catherine, also had her throat cut; she asphyxiated on her own blood as she bled out.
Four years after tearing her ACL at the Olympics, Michela Moioli made a late pass to win her first gold medal.
Italian economic growth fell slightly in the fourth quarter, but the Eurozone’s third-largest economy still ended 2017 on a much stronger note than it did in the previous year.
One of the world's oldest Erasmus students has picked Italy for his study-abroad semester, thanks to his memories of seeing opera here 40 years ago.
Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has made many claims in the course of Italy’s rough-and-tumble election campaign, and on Thursday he added another: he was the key architect behind the end of the Cold War.
Italian pairs partners Valentina Marchei and Ondrej Hotarek weren’t on the same page in the Kiss and Cry.
Giorgia Meloni’s party commands just 5 percent support in polls, but her Italy-first message is resonating with voters.
“This is a non-election,” a professor of philosophy tells me in a bar in Milan. “I will not vote.”
“Meaning?”
“Whoever wins, they will not govern. All will go on just the same. Most key policies will be decided outside Italy.”
Eat your heart out this Valentine’s Day. Or just eat a heart. You’ve got your choice of heart-shaped pizza, bagels, doughnuts and more for this most romantic day of the year.
The country's public debt is a threat to global financial stability.