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This is a hoot!  Berlusconi’s latest election gimmick is to field pretty young ladies and television personalties as candidates.  Most will come from his channels, one suspects. As you may have noticed from the odd report in the press, including an article featured on the front page of Britain’s Times Online, one person is not too happy with Berlusconi’s party tricks.  And that one person is no less than the man’s wife – Veronica Lario ! Lario is Livid Ms Lario was pretty upset when her hubby was reported flirting with Italian girls and telling one of his current ministers, and good looker, Mara Carafagna , that if he was not married, he would marry her.  Naughty Silvio. Party Animal Silvio Berlusconi attended the 18th Birthday party of one of his young beauties at the weekend, and his wife was not at all impressed.  Good old Silvio couldn’t find the time to make it to the eighteenth birthday parties of his own children, but somehow managed to fit the time to attend the party of this attractive ‘friend of the family’, who calls Berlusca ‘daddy’ too.  Perhaps that should be ’sugar’ daddy!  The real daddy of Noemi Letizia , the babe concerned, was apparently an ex-Craxi chauffeur.  What a small world.

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Festa di Sant’Efisio in Cagliari, Sardinia

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The house where seminal High Renaissance painter Giorgione lived and worked is set to open next month as a museum in his home town here near Venice. The home will exhibit two of only six works by Giorgione (Giorgio Zorzi da Castelfranco, 1477/8-1510) which have been conclusively established as his.

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The house where seminal High Renaissance painter Giorgione lived and worked is set to open next month as a museum in his home town here near Venice.

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As of 14.00 GMT a total of 11 Italians were tested for possible infection by the AH1N1 flu virus but all results were negative, Welfare Minister Maurizio Sacconi said Tuesday afternoon.

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As of 14.00 GMT a total of 11 Italians were tested for possible infection by the AH1N1 flu virus but all results were negative, Welfare Minister Maurizio Sacconi said Tuesday afternoon. The minister said the tests were all on people who had recently visited Mexico, where the new flu outbreak began and over 150 people have died

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Nearly two-thirds of unaccompanied foreign children arriving in Italy have fled care homes and are now at risk, an international humanitarian organization warned on Tuesday. Save The Children said that 60% of minors placed in Sicilian care homes after landing on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa had vanished in the period between May 2008 and February 2009

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Nearly two-thirds of unaccompanied foreign children arriving in Italy have fled care homes and are now at risk, an international humanitarian organization warned on Tuesday. Save The Children said that 60% of minors placed in Sicilian care homes after landing on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa had vanished in the period between May 2008 and February 2009.

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Venice must not become a ”historical theme park”, Britain’s Prince Charles said here on Tuesday on the final day of a three-day official visit to Italy. Addressing a Venice lagoon industrial regeneration seminar, the prince presented a five-point plan on architecture and the environment and explained his vision for large urban areas

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