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Playwright Stuart Mentha: author of DA©jA Vu and highly anticipated new play 'False Friends' The 12th annual Prague Fringe Festival begins on Friday evening in the Czech capital.

Torino, May 22 - Fiat Industrial on Wednesday denied reports that the possible move of its headquarters to Britain would cost Italy a half a billion euros in tax revenues.

Most modern robots look nothing like those predicted by 1950's era science fiction.

At the UN Forum of Mayors on Crime Prevention and Security in Urban Settings, from left to right: Dong Min Ki, Jonathan Lucas, Cecilia Andersson, Martin Xaba, Bilal S. Hamad, and Marin Casimir Ilboudo.

The weekend may have just ended, but it's never too early to look ahead to the next one.

A university near Torino, Italy, licensed by the state of New Hampshire, had its degree-granting authority extended for another year by the state Higher Education Commission.

Fashion designer Lila Morency, who grew up in Boulder, models one of her couture gowns in Tuscany in February.

The production line at Fiat's Grugliasco factory in Turin, Italy. Are things looking up for the european auto industry at last? Photograph: Bloomberg Crisis-hit Cyprus could be headed for a much worse recession than initially anticipated when international creditors agreed to prop up its economy, the IMF has announced in a 47-page report released ... (more)

The state Economic Development Authority showed support for Entsorga West Virginia Thursday, which helps the Berkeley County solid waste facility continue operations of its project, the group's executive director said.

Various types of pancetta, bacon made from pork belly, on display in Turin, Italy.

The northern Italian region of Piedmont has been submerged in heavy rain of between 30 and 50 millimetres over the past 24 hours, with areas around Cuneo and in Turin peaking at some 70 millimetres, according to the Agenzia Regionale Protezione Ambientale weather monitoring service.

Anna M. Anderson Lehman, 97, a longtime Shrewsbury resident, died peacefully Thursday, May 9, 2013 at the Oakdale Nursing and Rehab Center, West Boylston.

Turin, May 10 - Highlights of the culture, history, and natural beauty of the northwestern Piedmont region will be on display in Washington and New York in May and June as part of a photographic tour of the Italy.

With Juventus already having won Serie A and Napoli assured of finishing second, AC Milan's battle with Fiorentina for third is the last key item to be determined in the Italian league.

Elsewhere in this automotive world, Elon Musk is telling Bloomberg he wants the Tesla Model S to have Google's autopilot technology - that's his preferred name for autonomous cars.

27, 2011 file photo Ottavio Missoni, right, and his daughter Angela acknowledge the applause of the audience after presenting their Missoni Fall/Winter 2011 collection, in Milan, Italy.

Angelo Giuffre, 87, born in Marianopoli, Sicily, on Sept. 18, 1926, passed away on March 5, 2013, in Alba, Italy, where he resided for the past year.

Slow Food Story is the account of a slow revolution. Twenty-five years of quiet and steady rebellion to fast food thinking.

Turin, May 7 - Italian police on Tuesday arrested 21 people around Italy for crimes allegedly commissioned and committed by an 'Ndrangheta Calabrian mafia cell near Turin.

By J.D. Clockadale We read and hear a lot about taxes, politics, misguided school board members, crime and zoning issues.