PATTAYA, Thailand -- Anyone meeting the remarkable Juergen (Gio) Lusuardi will not quickly forget, especially when they discover how many benefit from his energy building the Take Care Kids charity for those suffering in Thailand. I have been renting a villa in Pattaya so as to stay in one place for a change and finish writing a book.

ROME– FAO chief José Graziano da Silva publicly dismissed work by senior colleagues as “huevadas” (bullshit) while working as head of the UN agency’s Latin American operation, FAO sources disclosed Tuesday.

 In a formal complaint to the FAO’s professional association, a senior executive described how an FAO Senior Officer and a woman Consultant made a presentation on Climate Change in 2010 at the agency’s headquarters in Santiago, Chile, then headed by the future Director General.

WASHINGTON-- In 2007, Amanda Knox left Seattle for Perugia, Italy, to master the language, then move to Rome for a creative-writing course at the University of Washington’s overseas program. But fate, that fickle offshoot of character, intervened. Knox’s flat-mate in Perugia, Meredith Kercher, was murdered, and Knox came under suspicion. Within days she was arrested, along with her Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, and charged with killing the British student in a drug-fueled sex game gone violently awry. In accordance with Italian law, they remained in custody pending trial.

ROME-Italy must follow the USA and create more private universities to prevent the Italian youth workforce becoming "marginalised," American University of Rome President Richard Hodges says.

  "We are in a global market, not just a national one, so this needs to be reflected in people’s education," Dr Hodges told the Italian Insider. "It is a problem of mindset and one that has not yet adapted in Italy, whereas it already has in countries such as for example Turkey."