Curated By Cendrine Marrouat
See on Scoop.it – Social Media Tips and News Storify is an easy and fun (yes, really! I promise!) way to pull together content from all over the social web to create a cohesive story. You drag and drop elements collected via sources like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Google search or even an embedded URL. [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards MACAU — Billionaire Sheldon Adelson said on Wednesday he plans to spend $35 billion on a mini-Las Vegas strip in Spain where he is courting the country’s two top urban areas, Barcelona and Madrid, with plans for a casino complex. Adelson, chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp, was speaking [...]
Curated By Marchebreaks
Mohammed bin Rashid meets President of Italy’s Marche Region Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum met today Gian Mario Spacca President, Marche Region, Italy. At an audience held at the Multaqa Majlis at the Dubai World Trade Centre, Spacca briefed Sheikh Mohammed [...]
28 Feb 2012 •
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Curated By Marchebreaks
Click on the photo to watch the video The romantic Chinese Adam Yu is a keen operalover, and particularly fond of Giacomo Puccini. A few years ago, Yu decided to commission the artist Chen Yifei to create the largest Chinese lacquer inspired by Turandot, Giacomo Puccini’s last and unfinished opera, famous especially for its great tenor [...]
Curated By Marchebreaks
CNN PRODUCER NOTE Cheryl Ferguson, of Urbino, Italy, shared these pictures to show the world that there is more to Italy than Rome. ‘Yes, it snowed in Rome and they are not used to it. But, we are entombed in snow and in a state of emergency,’ she says. Ferguson and her boyfriend were trapped [...]
Curated By Marchebreaks
That’s a great phrase I learned when I moved to the south. You might remember ‘mo’ from my Five Regional Words list. I’d never heard it while living in Ascoli Piceno, but it’s very common here, as I mentioned. I often hear “mo’ basta!” or “basta mo’!” uttered by frustrated mothers who are telling their [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Greek parliament approved a controversial austerity deal Sunday so the indebted country can get a bailout from the European Union. After the vote, angry Greeks began rioting and hurling fire bombs and stones at police and storefronts.By Monday morning, the violence had subsided. The EU told Greece that the vote was [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Members of Iraq’s government were infuriated by the United States continuing to fly unmanned surveillance drones to protect State Department assets such as the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and American personnel in the country, The New York Times reported Monday. The State Department’s Iraq fleet consists of about two dozen of [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards The Eastern European country of Belarus, already known for censorship and severe limitations on internet usage, is set to make its citizens’ web access even more restricted. On January 6th, a law will go into effect that makes it illegal for Belarusian citizens or residents to visit any foreign websites. Furthermore, [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) — Battling near-freezing temperatures and darkness, rescue workers and residents in eastern Turkey early Monday scoured the wreckage wrought by the country’s most-powerful earthquake in more than a decade, hoping to find survivors. Television pictures showed them using flashlights, shovels, heavy machinery and their hands to lift the [...]
Curated By Tom George
Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards A 32-year-old Texas man was killed Saturday in a shark attack while scuba diving off the coast of Western Australia, police said.The man was scuba diving with two friends near Rottnest Island, considered a popular tourist destination located about 15 miles off the mainland, when the attack occurred. The friends, who [...]
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