ROME (Reuters) ? Italy anxiously awaits the reaction of financial markets Monday to the appointment of former European Commissioner Mario Monti to head a technocratic government, hoping it will end a disastrous week for the euro zone’s third largest economy. In a frenetic weekend of political activity, Italy’s parliament approved a package of economic reforms agreed with European leaders, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned and President Giorgio Napolitano appointed Monti, a respected international figure as head of a new government. The whole hurried process, much faster than is normal, was designed to calm markets which last week pushed Italy’s borrowing costs to the levels that forced Portugal, Greece and Ireland to seek bailouts. The first test will come Monday when the Treasury offers up to 3 billion euros worth of 5-year BTP bonds in an auction that will show how far fragile confidence in Italy’s battered public finances has been restored. Because the euro zone cannot afford the much bigger bailout that would be needed to save its third largest economy, the crisis threatened a European financial meltdown. Napolitano said after nominating Monti that there must be an extraordinary effort to address the crisis and Italy could not wait for elections to solve political paralysis. He said Italy must recover the trust of investors and European institutions. Monti said he would work urgently to form a government and to pull Italy out of the crisis. The new government is thought likely to be a tight cabinet of around 12 technocrats….
The fall TV season is taking shape. Networks have ordered dozens of new pilots starring familiar faces including Zachary Levi, Mindy Kaling, Mandy Moore and Sarah Silverman, and from proven producers like Josh Schwartz, J.J. Abrams, Greg Berlanti and Kevin Williamson. Also making a comeback this year: Iconic characters including Green Arrow, Carrie Bradshaw, Sherlock Holmes and Beauty and the Beast. To keep track of who’s doing what, read our complete list of all the series projects in contention and check back for updates on their status. Here are the NBC pilots: (Click here for ABC, CBS, CW and Fox.) DRAMA Bad Girls An unlikely group of women in a federal prison — including a scandalous female warden, her new prot?g? and various inmates — struggle with loyalties to people on the inside and outside. Shameless‘ John Wells will executive-produce alongside The Sweetest Thing scribe Nancy Pimental. Based on the long-running British hit series. Beautiful PeopleSet 10 minutes in the future, families of mechanical human beings exist to service the human population — until some of the mechanicals begin to “awaken.” MADtv‘s Michael McDonald will write and executive-produce. American Horror Story‘s Frances Conroy, James Murray, Patrick Heusinger, Madisen Beaty, Cody Allen Christian, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Jud Taylor, Andrea Parker, Tovah Feldshuh, David Conrad will star. Ernie Hudson will recur. Chicago FireThe complex and heroic men and women of the Chicago Fire Department are explored in this action-driven drama. Derek Haas and Michael Brandt will write and executive-produce with Law & Order‘s….
DAKAR?? Mali presumes five Westerners kidnapped in its desert north last week are still alive and is doing all it can to liberate them, the West African state’s foreign minister said on Thursday. Only on msnbc.com Myanmar?s new capital: a vast, empty city Gay groups boycott Salvation Army red kettle drive Nation’s food banks taxed by lingering joblessness Mass. AG sues five major banks over foreclosures From housewife to managing $822 billion for USAF Japan?s car makers try to rev-up market Biden: Not ‘closing the door’ on a presidential run In two separate incidents in northern Mali, two Frenchmen were kidnapped from a hotel while a Dutchman, a South African and a Swede were abducted in the historic trading town of Timbuktu. A German citizen was killed after resisting in the second attack. Asked on France 24 television, whether he knew if the five were still alive, Foreign Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga replied: “We think so, yes. … For us the main priority is to….
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MEXICO CITY ? Prosecutors announced Monday they have found another clandestine grave holding 10 bodies in the northern Mexico state of Durango, bringing to 14 the number of such burial sites found in the state this year. Soldiers found the 10 bodies last week in a field on the outskirts of the state capital, also called Durango, said Raymundo Enriquez, the spokesman for the Durango state prosecutors’ office. The total number of bodies believed related to drug gang violence found so far this year in clandestine graves in Durango now stands at 287, including the most recent discovery. The sheer number of bodies overwhelmed the Durango forensic examiner’s storage facilities, forcing authorities to rent a refrigerated truck. Authorities have so far been able to identify only about two dozen of the bodies; most have been buried again in common graves, after no relatives claimed them. Police in the city of Durango have offered no motives in the killings, but officials have said the killings are the result of an internal power struggle within the Sinaloa drug cartel, Mexico’s most powerful gang. Also Monday, the Mexican army released five-year totals of the number of attacks and shootouts, soldiers killed and wounded since President Felipe Calderon launched an offensive against drug cartels in December 2006. Army spokesman Col. Ricardo Trevilla told local media that there have been 1,948 attacks, ambushes or shootouts with gunmen since December 2006. In those confrontations, 126 army personnel were killed, but 2,268 gunmen died, a ratio of….
A pregnant Ana Ortiz totes daughter Paloma Louise, 2, at the official launch of VINCI, held Wednesday at Fred Segal in West Hollywood, Calif.
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