Six people have died after the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground on the Italian coast friday night. Italian coast guard officials say the number of people missing from the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner has risen to 29. Enviromental fear mount in Italy.
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Costa concordia, 5 dead 17 people still missing
It is thought at least three people have died after the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground on the Italian coast friday night. Dozens are stille missing, the operation of recovery going on. This morinig the purser of the ill-fated Costa Concordia was rescued after crews found him trapped in a restaurant. Watch the video stoties of survivors.
Murder of Allison Owens, the trial begins March 16
Pietro Stefanoni, the man who hit on Oct. 2 in San Giovanni Valdarno (some of kilometers south of Florence), the twenty years old American tour guide Allison Owens while she was jogging, will be tried on 16 March in the branch section of Montevarchi Court of Arezzo.
Cruise ship sinks in Tuscany, captain arrested
Three people are confirmed dead after a cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground off Italy, along the cost of Tuscany, near to Isola del Giglio. Costa Concordia had an unfortunate launching.
Manhunt after assaulting three foreign girls
Man hunting is open to the maniac of November 22 in Florence, Italy. That night a man with a check cap in three separate occasions has attacked three foreign students pawing at the entrance to the door of the hallway of the house.
A Leaf arrives in the center of the city
From October 2011, Nissan and the City of Florence are partners, together with French Renault and Enel, in a project to introduce and promote the use and diffusion of electric vehicles, with the aim to find solutions for the diffusion of zero emission electric mobility, in a city where sustainability of transports is related to the need to protect the artistic heritage.
Mayor Renzi will deal directly in culture
The culture councilor of the City of Florence, Giuliano da Empoli, has left his office to go to direct the think tank “Big Bang”, the political association that Mayor Matteo Renzi has created after the convention at the Leopolda with national policy objectives.
Three snatching in the center of Florence
Three snatching in an hour last night in the center of Florence. Targeted by two men on a scooter two tourists and a Florentine girl.
Consistory: red hat for archibishop Betori
To help the Church in its mission the Holy Father announced a consistory for February 18th next, during which he will create 22 new Cardinals. One of them is archibishop of Florence, Italy, Giuseppe Betori.
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Russian quasicrystals may have an alien past. “We present evidence that a rock sample found in the Koryak Mountains in Russia and containing icosahedrite, an icosahedral quasicrystalline phaseis part of a meteorite, likely formed in the early solar system,” said Luca Bindi, who works at the University of Florence, Italy.
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