L'aquila, Italy News

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, hello, everybody. Benvenuto. I want to welcome Prime Minister Monti to the White House for his first visit.

Few people outside Italy are aware that six seismologists and a government official are on trial in the small city of L'Aquila. But the story has implications for scientists, engineers, administrators, and legal systems far beyond Italy's borders.

Born in Italy on April 1, 1916, she was the daughter of Franco and Cristina Giampaoli.

Postwar Italian governments have had to deal with many natural and man-made disasters in their time - including the Alpine dam landslide and overflow at Vajont in 1963 , earthquakes near Naples in 1980 , and L'Aquila in 2009 , not to mention the sinking of the Italy's transatlantic ocean liner Andrea Doria in fog off Nantucket Island in 1956 .

Malinconico said he had been unaware Francesco Maria De Vito Piscicelli has paid for some of his stays at a hotel in the Tuscan seaside resort of Porto Ercole until this was revealed by media reports and said he had ''never done favours for the people involved''. Malinconico stepped down from the helm of the Italian Newspaper Publishers Federation ... (more)