An Italian court on Friday sentenced an HIV-positive man to 24 years in jail for intentionally infecting 30 women he had unprotected sex with over nearly 10 years. Under the pseudonym “Hearty Style”, 33-year-old accountant…
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World’s oldest wine may have been Italian
Researchers have discovered that the oldest wine in the world may have been Italian, after finding traces of 6,000-year-old fermented grapes off the west coast of Sicily. A team of researchers studied residue in terracotta…
Emma Morano, last person alive born in 1800s, turns 117
An alert and chatty Italian woman, Emma Morano, on Tuesday celebrates her 117th birthday as the last known person alive who was born in the 19th century. Born November 29, 1899, she is the world’s…
French chefs toasted, but world’s best restaurant is Italian
Italy’s “Osteria Francescana” was crowned world’s best restaurant of 2016 at an awards ceremony in New York on Monday, the first Italian establishment to win the annual accolade. Run by chef Massimo Bottura, “Osteria Francescana”…
Designer Spotlight: Stella Jean and her multicultural approach
The half-Haitian, half-Italian fashion designer, Stella Jean, has come out strong with her collections which have been featured in several international fashion weeks and graced the pages of some of fashion’s most iconic magazines. This…
#SusanEats: Fantinel Winery hosts exclusive wine-pairing dinner in Ethiopia
Port and cheese are perfect partners? Red wine should always be served at room temperature? There are many myths about wine, some more obvious than others. When it comes to wines in East Africa, especially…
#SusanEats: Kempinski unveils their Italian gem ‘Lucca’
You can feel it in the air. Stress. It’s D-Day and the emotions crawl up your body slowly, burrowing, and waiting for the perfect opportunity to unleash. The anticipation climaxes. What seemed a few months…
Exposed: Italian teacher who kills celebrities on Twitter
Fidel Castro, Mikhail Gorbachev and Pope Benedict XVI — Italian Tommasso Debenedetti has killed them all in fake tweets aimed at exposing shoddy journalism that have earned him global notoriety. The latest victim of Debenedetti’s…