The first open transgender deputy in the Italian parliament, Vladimir Luxuria, landed at Sochi airport today, as she immediately told her on her Twitter page, backing up her words with a photo in which a smiling activist waving a flag painted in all colors of rainbow.
Category: Society
Hundreds of Bangladeshi natives, who work in textile factories in Sant'Antimo near Naples, demand that they receive slave status, believing that only in this way they will be able to leave the employer. According to them, the owners of factories force their subordinates to work for almost the entire day, while paying them no more than 250 euros per month.
Those who have seen Benedict XVI after leaving the Vatican claim that the former pontiff looks refreshed and rested, leaving politics in the past and fully devoting himself to prayers and playing the piano. The Vatican authorities say that Benedict does not even think of returning to the world stage. Before permanently relinquishing the title of head of the Holy See, the former Pope declared that he was going to lead a modest and even reclusive lifestyle.
Italy’s National Statistics Agency ISTAT said recent studies of the country's population have revealed very sad numbers: today, about two million (23.9 percent) of young people do not work or study. These data apply to young people aged 15 to 29 years.
Bonhams auction took place in Paris, where one of the lots was the classic Harley Davidson bike model “Dyna Super Glide”, once presented to the current Pope Francis. The former property of the pontiff was sold yesterday for a record amount: 241,500 euros, which is 16 times the initial cost of the classic model of a well-known company.
Twitter of Pope Francis in Latin is gaining more and more popularity: more than 211 thousand people read the Pope’s wise sayings in the so-called “dead language” of the Ancient Roman Empire. His main followers are students. Dead Language "This is the beginning of a new life for a dead language," says the British magazine Times.
The Italian nun, who at the age of 44 gave birth to a child after she was raped by a priest, finally decided to regain the baby. Immediately after giving birth, the woman refused to recognize her own daughter. The ex-sister explained her decision by the fact that at that time she simply did not want to leave the congregation "Sisters of the Holy Family from Nazareth", which she had been in since 1996.
In Italy, the world's first "sensitive" artificial arm was developed: it returns tactile sensations to patients with amputations. Successfully completed the final testing of the LifeHand2 project, in the forefront of which the leading research centers of the country took part. The new prosthesis is able to transmit tactile sensations to the brain and in the same way to control the compression force based on the received commands.
Italian authorities managed to arrest one of the most dangerous bosses of the Neapolitan mafia Comorra, Mariano Riccio, who was on the list of "100 most dangerous criminals in the country on the wanted list." Riccio was detained in his house during one of the raids of the Naples Carabinieri.
The UN Human Rights Committee has accused the Catholic Church of concealing the spread of pedophilia among its ministers, and also expressed its dissatisfaction with the Holy See's attitude to abortion and contraception. Moreover, the United Nations insists on the removal from service of priests who were somehow convicted of violence against children.
The list of victims of the crash of a huge liner that sank off the coast of an Italian island in 2012 was replenished by one more person. According to Italian media, a diver died during the restoration of the ship. It turned out to be 42-year-old native of sunny Spain, Izrael Franco Moreno, who worked for the Italian-American company Titan-Mikoperi.
Disputes continue regarding the work of the sculptor Oliviero Rainaldi, which was presented to the public in 2011. According to the English writer and journalist Ian Eych, the figure "Conversation" is more likely not like a Polish pontiff, but "Mussolini, who is trying to steal a child." Journalists put it on the list of "10 ugliest monuments of the world." A sample of Italian art was in the Top 10 of the world ranking.
The blood vial of the pontiff John Paul II (Papa Giovanni Paolo II), which was stolen last week from the temple where he was stored, was discovered yesterday by Italian carabinieri. A unique relic was found in a garage owned by a local drug addict. It was he and his two accomplices who stole the reliquary from St. Peter's Church in the city of Aquila a few days ago.
The economic crisis has reached the tables of Italians, threatening the health of the inhabitants of a beautiful country, which is trying to get out of a difficult and confusing financial situation. Last year, six out of ten Italians ate expired foods, which is a very alarming echo of the crisis that engulfed the country.
In the small town of Termeno sulla Strada del Vino, in northern Italy, a 300-year-old manor house belonging to the Order of the Catholic Church was badly damaged after it collapsed strongest rockfall. This story happened on January 21, but only recently the owners of the building, from which there was practically no stone unturned, estimated the damage caused: we are talking about millions of euros.
The Vatican’s Communications and Public Relations Department has posted a photograph on the Pope Francis’s official page on Twitter, showing the pontiff as a superhero in graffiti style. According to the press service of Francis, this creation was found on one of the residential buildings of Rome in the Borgo Pio area, where the head of the Catholic Church is incredibly widespread.
One of the Roman synagogues received an extremely unpleasant “gift” on the eve of Holocaust remembrance day. According to Italian media, a suspicious bag was delivered to the synagogue in the afternoon. He immediately aroused some concerns among the clergymen: they were confused by the strange form of the parcel and some even offered to call a special detachment of sappers in order to open it.
Italians are perhaps the best blood donors in Europe. According to the latest data provided by the National Association of Blood Donors (Associazione Volontari Italiani Sangue (AVIS)), about 80 percent of the inhabitants of the sunny country regularly and consistently help fellow citizens in need. These figures indicate that Italy is the second largest European country in the collection of donated blood.
The woman kept the corpse of her mother in her own home refrigerator, while regularly receiving the pension of a dead old woman, Italian tabloids report. Such a terrible thing hit the police desk in the small town of Borgomanero, located in the Novara region. This terrible story "surfaced" after the residents of one of the houses called an ambulance Tiziana Devecchi, a 62-year-old woman who did not feel well and could not open the door, which was locked from the inside.
Heavy rains that hit the northern part of Italy, significantly affected the convergence of landslides. According to Italian media, for security reasons, more than a thousand local residents were evacuated from the region. Meteorologists argue that more than a hundred landslides have descended in the Liguria region alone over the weekend.
This morning, the Italian National Olympic Committee received an electronic message stating the threat of a terrorist act during the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. According to representatives of the Italian Olympic Committee, IOC and a number of countries received such letters, whose participants will go to the Olympics, the grand opening of which is scheduled for February 7, 2014.