In business, it’s important to be courteous and to respect cultural differences. But etiquette experts say Germans can’t stand all the cheek kissing.
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Tourists Foot the Bill to Keep Venice Above Water
A new tax imposed on current tourists will help ensure that future tourists can also enjoy the city.
‘Jersey Shore’ Season 4 Trailer: New Location, Same Antics
They’re back, and now they’re terrorizing Europe. What’s Italian for “here we go again?”
Pinocchio: A Puppet With a Much-Disputed Past
Here’s something you may not have known about Pinocchio, the enormously popular children’s story about a perjuring wooden puppet. The tale is less fictional than we may have believed, new research concludes.
Reading While Eating For June 28: Living for the City
As the Stevie Wonder title implies, today’s links showcase sweet, sensational, and smelly happenings in the world’s cities.
‘Guidette’ Gaffe: Snooki Crashes Car into Police Escort in Italy
You know what they say: You can take the girl out of Jersey, but you can’t take Jersey out of the girl.
Who’s That Statue? Critics Slam Sculpture of Pope John Paul II
“A tent.” “A bomb.” “Benito Mussolini.” Not the descriptions you’d want to hear about a newly unveiled statue, especially one of a former Pope.
Look Ma, No Hands: Watch As Italian Bus Driver Uses Two Phones Behind the Wheel
That takes skill, even when you’re not steering a 20,000-pound vehicle.
Italian University Relocates Two Students to Avoid ‘Jersey Shore’ Run-Ins
TMZ claims that students of the Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici (after the famed Reinassance ruler of Florence, nicknamed “the Magnificent”) received an email about the incoming cast of Jersey Shore. Here’s what it said.
Real Estate Steal: Entire Italian Village On Sale for $800,000
What Actually Goes On at Olive Garden’s ‘Culinary Institute’ in Tuscany?
It’s not a good week to be Olive Garden.
Will George Clooney Testify in Silvio Berlusconi’s Sex Trial?
The Hollywood actor’s new role, if greenlit, will be filmed by many cameras and viewed around the world. And when he says his lines, George Clooney won’t have the safety net of a script to fall back on if he ends up testifying in …