Esce 'L'amore ai tempi del colera'

Uscira' venerdi' in 200 copie 'L'amore ai tempi del colera' di M. Newell con Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Javier Bardem e Benjamin Bratt. Il film tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di Gabriel Garcia Marquez e distribuito dalla 01, e' una mega produzione hollywoodiana che vede protagonista l'attrice italiana nei panni di Fermina, una donna amata per piu' di 50 anni da Florentino Ariza (Bardem).

Scotland Yard arresta Amy Winehouse

La cantante Amy Winehouse e' stata arrestata dalla polizia di Londra per aver 'turbato il corso della giustizia'. E' poi stata interrogata in un commissariato. La cantante si e' messa nei guai con la giustizia per avere fornito al marito Blake Fielder-Civil una somma, per corrompere un uomo da lui picchiato e fargli ritirare la denuncia da questi presentata a proprio carico. Il marito e' stato arrestato un mese fa ed ora le stesse accuse sono state mosse alla cantante.

Elsa Morante, eredi donano carte

Gli eredi di Elsa Morante, Carlo Cecchi,Daniele Morante e Antonio Ricchezza hanno donato alla Biblioteca Nazionale le carte della scrittrice. Lo annuncia la Biblioteca, sottolineando che la donazione integra l'archivio conservato alla Nazionale, alla quale a suo tempo la Morante destino' i manoscritti dei suoi romanzi. Si tratta di una documentazione di grande valore e comprende molti originali e inediti.

Italian 'victory' on death penalty

The Italian government on Tuesday voiced ''great satisfaction'' over the approval of a United Nations resolution for a global moratorium on the death penalty.Premier Romano Prodi said he was ''moved'' after the UN General Assembly voted 104 to 54 to approve the resolution, for which Italy had campaigned for several years.''It is a source of pride that Italy was first to promote this initiative, which soon was transformed into a great international coalition for people's rights and dignity,'' he said.With the resolution, the UN asks all its members to suspend executions.Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema, who was at the UN in New York for the crucial vote, said the strong majority in favour meant it was now possible to start talking about abolishing capital punishment definitively.''This Italian victory will certainly go down in history and this date will be remembered around the world,'' said a visibly moved Emma Bonino, foreign trade minister and a longstanding campaigner in favour of the UN moratorium.Italy has long been active in the fight against capital punishment and lobbied many governments to table a moratorium proposal at the UN, where it took up a non-permanent Security Council seat this year.The EU has also tasked Italy and Germany with pushing the campaign forward at the UN.Since the war, Italian governments have taken an increasingly strong anti-death penalty stance and it presented moratorium proposals at the UN General Assembly in 1994 and 1995.Campaigners point out that it was an Italian, the philosopher and politician Cesare Beccaria, who made the first-ever case against the death penalty.Beccaria (1738-1794) condemned capital punishment and torture in his 1764 treatise Dei Delitti e Delle Pene (On Crimes and Punishments) which is considered a founding work in the field of criminology.The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was also the first state to permanently abolish the death penalty in 1786.A recent Amnesty International report said that the number of worldwide executions had fallen together with the number of countries that impose the death penalty.It said 1,591 executions were reported last year compared to 2,148 in 2005.The group said that some 99 countries have banned capital punishment while 69 still have it.