Florence Italy News
- Bank of Italy Appoints Two Special Commissioners to Administer Tuscan Bank Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 1:34AMBank of Italy last night appointed two special commissioners, Angelo Provasoli and Virgilio Fenaroli, to run Credito Cooperativo Fiorentino SC, a Florence- based bank.
- Western Cape Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 10:09PMLondon - South Africa flyhalf Ruan Pienaar has agreed his release from the Sharks and will join Ulster at the start of September, it was announced on Wednesday. The 26-year-old, who was part of the...
- Cops question Petacchi Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 8:24PMFlorence, Italy - Alessandro Petacchi remained silent on Wednesday when questioned in Florence by police investigating whether the Tour de France green jersey winner has committed a new doping offence.
- Forte e gentile: Abruzzo honors Winchester teen Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 9:03AMGORIANO SICOLI, ITALY — The walls of the center, like the Winchester teenager for which it was named, are strong and sturdy, and represent the virtues of compassion, love and empathy shared between two communities forever linked by inexplicable tragedy.
- Bangkok named World’s Best City 2010 by travel magazine Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 2:59AMNEW YORK: Travel & Leisure Magazine, which caters to the luxury travel market, has released its 2010 ‘World’s Best’ list, with Bangkok voted by readers as the top city in the world, followed by Chiang Mai. Bangkok governor Sukhumbhand Paribathra received this award at The Trump Soho Hotel in New York on July 21, Thai News Agency reports.
- Galileo relics star in new exhibit Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 12:11AMModern supporters of Galileo are exhibiting newly recovered bits of his body as if they were the relics of a saint.
- Obituaries - July 23, 2010 Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 11:21PMHellmut C. Bauer, 74, retired vice president of global trade at JPMorgan Chase Bank , and former resident of Greenwich most recently of Roswell, Ga., passed away on July 7, 2010. During his 37 years with the bank, he provided services in the Defense, Aerospace and Telecommunications Industries . After retirement, he consulted for various bank and industrial clients in trade finance.
- Radar holography could offer a safer, more effective approach to finding landmines Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 1:03PMThe process of removing landmines from a current or former war zone is a dangerous, time-intensive and expensive proposition thanks largely to antiquated technology and methods of detection and extraction. An international team of researchers and engineers is hoping to change this with the help of a holographic radar system that sends continuous microwaves into the ground and creates ...
- Buff Cobb, Actress and TV Host, Dies at 82 Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 10:31AMMs. Cobb and Mike Wallace, her husband at the time, adapted their radio program into the CBS talk show “Mike and Buff” in the early 1950s.
