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The family of Leonard Bernstein has donated items from the late composer’s Connecticut studio _ including a conducting stool believed to have been used by Johannes Brahms _ to Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.
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Lamborghini is a killer. It stands out. It’s a hobby. But still, the sales are depleting; it doesn’t matter even if the luxury charm of the car is intact. Now, as...
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Venus Williams has won her opening match in the Italian Open, beating Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic 6-2, 4-6, 6-2.
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A bankruptcy judge has postponed his decision on whether Chrysler can start the process of transferring its assets to a new entity partnered with Italian automaker...
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Serena Williams says she’s No. 1 in the world even though the women’s tennis rankings indicate otherwise.
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An Italian woman has died and her 4-year-old grandson is in critical condition after a hyberbaric chamber exploded at a South Florida clinic.
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Chrysler LLC is expected to file a motion Saturday to sell substantially all of its assets to Italian automaker Fiat Group SpA, but the ailing automaker must still deal...
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Attorneys for Chrysler LLC said the company will file a motion by Saturday morning to sell substantially all of its assets to Italian automaker Fiat Group SpA, but that...
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After months of struggling to stay alive on government loans, Chrysler finally succumbed to bankruptcy Thursday, pinning its future on a top-to-bottom reorganization...
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The Italian Olympic Committee has suspended a ruling by the Italian soccer federation that had ordered Juventus to play its next Serie A home match in an empty stadium...
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The elderly man claimed he needed the oranges in his suitcase to keep up his vitamin C level, but Italian police soon realized the “C” stood for cocaine.
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President Barack Obama said he is “very hopeful” that deals can be worked out to keep Chrysler a viable automaker, as negotiations with debtholders...
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Three people briefed on the deal say Italian automaker Fiat Group SpA will sign paperwork by Thursday to become a partner with Chrysler LLC.
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Italian soccer player Luca Baldo has been banned from playing in Switzerland for two years after testing positive for cocaine.
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Bahrain’s first Olympic track and field gold medalist, an Italian cycling silver medalist and a prominent German cyclist are among the six athletes caught for...
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Silvio Berlusconi may be one of Italy’s most popular politicians, but the premier’s approval ratings are sinking fast with at least one Italian _ his wife.
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Pope Benedict XVI is visiting the central Italian region ravaged by an earthquake early this month.
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Britain’s Prince Charles called for “inspired leadership” against global warming to save the environment for future generations in a speech Monday to...
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Pope Benedict XVI is canonizing five new saints, including Portugal’s 14th century independence leader and an Italian monk who died of the plague after tending to...
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An Italian cruise ship fended off a pirate attack off the coast of Somalia, with its security forces exchanging fire with the bandits, the commander said Saturday.
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The commander of an Italian cruise ship says his crew successfully fended off an attack by pirates off Somalia, returning fire when the pirates attacked.
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Debbie Harris knew the military dog tag and small metal emblem of a Navy fighter squadron she recently found in the sand near her home on an Alabama beach belonged to a...
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The director of Harvard’s Peabody Museum said Tuesday he wants to return about 50 ancient carved Mayan jade pieces to Mexico, almost a century after a U.S. consul...
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U.S. officials returned 168 pre-Columbian artifacts to Ecuador on Tuesday as part of an ongoing FBI initiative to repatriate stolen cultural treasures to their home...
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Three years ago, an elderly Italian man pulled his van into a South Florida park to sell some rare, 2,500-year-old emeralds plundered from a South American tomb. But...
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The dusty documentation of the Anasazi Indians a thousand years ago, from their pit houses and kivas to the observatories from which they charted the heavens, lies...
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A well-planned street grid and an elaborate drainage system hint that the occupants of the ancient Indus civilization city of Mohenjo Daro were skilled urban planners...
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection authorities have seized four pre-Columbian artifacts originally from Ecuador and returned them to the government of the South...
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Federal authorities in Miami have recovered a treasure trove of pre-Columbian gold, artifacts and emeralds, and plan to return the items to the Colombian government.The...
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Syrian customs officials seized 40 artifacts stolen from the National Museum in Iraq as they were being smuggled across the border into Syria, state media reported...
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Police seized some 1,000 ancient artifacts from a wealthy Italian man’s country house outside Rome that were stolen from one of Emperor Trajan’s villas,...
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Idaho State University anthropologists are retracing American Indian trade routes by bombarding arrowheads and other stone tools with radiation that helps locate their...
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Many more beautiful artifacts like the one pictured above are being showcased at an exhibition dubbed ‘Raffinesse & Eleganz’ in Berlin, the capital of...
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Some lucky fellows have got money to spend lavishly on almost anything that comes their way. At an auction, a pin-head sized mock-up of the Lloyd’s of London...
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In an attempt to help end Italy’s enduring dilemma with faked and stolen artwork, a geophysicist named Pietro Cosentino has come with the idea of employing...
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