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Tumblr The since-pulled posters for ‘12 Years a Slave’ focused on the drama’s Caucasian stars, Brad Pitt (pictured) and Michael Fassbender. One of the stars of the critically acclaimed “12 Years a Slave” has dropped out of a film premiere in Italy after an ill-conceived marketing strategy came across as a throwback to a less enlightened era. Actress Lupita Nyongo’o, ...

Ben Miller/Getty/Getty Images Francesco Raccosta, who disappeared in March 2012, was severely beaten before being thrown to a drove of pigs and eaten alive. A high-ranking Italian mafia boss was brutally murdered by a rival clan who fed him alive to pigs, police said. Francesco Raccosta, who vanished without a trace from his home in Calabria in March 2012, is ...

Anja Hild/Getty Images/Vetta New data revealed that nearly half of men aged 25-34 still lived at home with their mothers. Italian men are well-known for their love of mama. But just how much has been revealed by official Italian figures, which show that more than half of all Italian men still live with their moms. Figures show that 52% of ...

FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images Pope Francis has made certain Italian mobsters nervous through his effort to reform the church, and by speaking out against corruption, it was reported.  An anti-mob prosecutor in Italy has warned that Pope Francis has ruffled feathers among the ‘Ndrangheta organized crime organization. Nicola Gratteri, 55, a state prosecutor in the Calabria region of southern Italy, said ...