Depardieu imposter fools hotel staff in Rome
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A look-alike pretending to be  French actor Gerard Depardieu walked into a luxury hotel in  Rome and walked out with a gift basket weighed down with  freebies, local media reports said Friday.
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The writers of a controversial docu-film which accuses former premier Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party of election fraud is being probed on suspicion of spreading false information.Comment
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The BBC's Alasdair Sandford examines reaction in France to the massive fraud by a Paris-based bank trader.
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Her Italian is nearly perfect. Her demeanor is quietly polite. But the sommelier at Il Pagliaccio, a tony restaurant in Rome's historic center, isn't your average Chianti expert.
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The French are arrogant, rude and surly to foreign visitors. For once - quelle surprise! - the thought comes not from an embittered tourist but the leading French politician behind a damning report on how the ...
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Secretly filmed footage shows health minister during hotel sex session with 'close personal friend'
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Hotel deals abound as foreign governments issue travel warnings to would-be visitors.
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(Corrects spelling of French theater to Theatre National  Populaire in paragraph nine, and inserts paragraph 14 to show  Depardieu event is separate from the Film Society&#39;s Annual Gala  Tribute)
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MILANO - Durissima presa di posizione di Cristina Parodi e Giorgio Gori. Dopo che un settimanale di gossip aveva pubblicato la notizia che l&#39;ex direttore di Canale 5, padre dei tre figli della conduttrice
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been slightly injured after a tourist threw a camera tripod at him in a packed Rome square, an official from the prime minister's party says.
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Christmas is the party season, and the agencies that book impersonators and other entertainers are doing serious business. Just ask Brian Bergdoll, a John Travolta impersonator.
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At Robert Cavalli's show, the histrionics were all backstage, in a scene that was as deliriously over the top as the designer's clothes.
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A trial opens in Paris into the late President Francois Mitterrand's  wiretapping of his opponents.
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The guide ushering tourists into the former monks' dining hall that houses Leonardo da Vinci's faded masterpiece "The Last Supper" tried in vain to interest her audience in art history, technique and aesthetics.
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Socialite Paris Hilton fell victim  to a hoaxer who wrote a widely publicized Web posting in her  name defending the "partying ethics" of her new friend, singer  Britney Spears, Hilton's spokesman said on Friday.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi  was slightly injured Friday when a tourist threw a camera  tripod at him in a packed Rome square, an official from the  prime minister's party said.
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French actor Gerard Depardieu shunned a summons to appear before an Italian court on Wednesday for allegedly headbutting a local photographer in 2005, and the ruling is now set for next year.