As a character, he has been rocketing across our screens for half a century, but few remember that the original Superman, George Reeves, died in mysterious circumstances in the bedroom of his Hollywood Hills home at the height of his fame in 1959.
Italy’s new Prime Minister Romano Prodi unveiled a new centre-left government on Wednesday, ending weeks of political stalemate and pledging to rebuild solidarity after bitterly divisive elections. As expected, it features former prime minister Massimo D’Alema as Foreign Minister and former European Central Bank board member Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa as Economy Minister.
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/ 16 November 2005
A prominent United States museum curator appeared in court in Rome on Wednesday in a trial designed to assert Italy’s ownership of a large part of the J Paul Getty antiquities collection, and sound a warning to museums elsewhere which may have acquired looted Italian art.