Author: |Posted: 11:18 am on 09/07/09
Category: World News Blog
I am breathing in the bracing air of the Abruzzo hills but as I write this Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the first lady of France, is not.
The demure Sarah Brown is here, and the funky Michelle Obama, but Carla Bruni – a former naked model – has not yet joined this year’s G8 festivities, in an apparent snub to the host, Silvio Berlusconi. read more
Author: |Posted: 11:26 am on 08/07/09
Category: World News Blog
By the time you are reading this I hope to be supping on mozzarella di bufala in a medieval Italian hilltop town full of churches stuffed with paintings by Renaissance masters.
The reality will probably be that I shall be going through umpteen security scanners along with some 3000 other journalists queuing for the G8 summit in the earthquake zone of L’Aquila, and helping our cameraman in my own puny way to lug camera and editing gear past Italian police in the summer heat.
