Romeo and Juliet skeletons have been discovered in a Romanian graveyard just in time for William Shakespeare’s birthday.
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ROMEO AND JULIET – Couple Buried Holding Hands
Archaeologists excavating the inner courtyard of a former Dominican monastery in Cluj-Napoca have been left baffled after discovering the bodies of a young couple who were buried holding hands.
Read MoreThe Economist: Italian politics – The old guard is back in charge
WHAT we are witnessing in Italy is remarkable, and at times scarcely believable. On April 20th, after five failed attempts to elect a new president, an electoral college that includes the members of both chambers of parliament, plumped for the incumbent, Giorgio Napolitano, who is 87 years old. Nicholas Spiro, a sovereign risk analyst, called it “the clearest indication yet of the utter dysfunctionality of Italian politics”.
Read MoreRomanian Skeletons Found Buried Holding Hands In Cluj-Napoca
Romanian archeologists excavating a graveyard in Cluj-Napoca have discovered the skeletons of a man and woman buried hand in hand, seemingly bound in a endless embrace of love.
Read MoreThe Economist: The economy – That swooning feeling
FOR America’s economy, April is the cruellest month. In each of the past three years the economic recovery started with a burst of momentum, only to swoon over the spring and summer. Sadly, there are now signs of a repeat.
Read MoreNYT: Bomb Investigation Shifts to a New Mystery: Motive
With one suspect dead and the other captured and lying grievously wounded in a hospital, the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings turned on Saturday to questions about the men’s motives, and to the significance of a trip by one of the bombers took to Chechnya.
Read MoreThe Economist: The Boston bombings – The manhunt is over
WHEN Barack Obama declared on the day of the Boston bombings that the perpetrators would “feel the full weight of justice”, few had imagined that justice would be so swift. But on April 19th, just four days after the attack, police killed one of the two brothers they suspected of the attack in a gunfight. Later that day, after a massive manhunt, they arrested the other.
Read MoreWizz to axe 50% of routes from Rome Fiumicino
Wizz Air is to pull four of its eight routes from Rome’s Fiumicino Airport on May 7 in response to what it calls “unreasonable” airport charges levied at the gateway.
Read MoreBanca Transilvania is interested in taking over the whole loan portfolio of Bank of Cyprus in Romania
According to the local media, citing people with knowledge of the matter, Banca Transilvania is interested in taking over the whole loan portfolio of Bank of Cyprus in Romania while Raiffeisen Bank is interested only in several assets.
Read MoreThe Economist: Who will be Italy’s next president?
Cowed by the threat of crushing ECB intervention if they dare to go too short of Italian bonds, investors and traders are still pushing to the back of their minds concerns about political uncertainty in Italy. But the uncertainty is still there following its inconclusive election in February, and it has been all too plainly visible in the run-up to the election for a new president which begins today.
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