milan, italy. may 25 2009. countdown is on to say goodbye to the old glorious pirelli building by architect gio ponti, to become "former headquarter of lombardy region".

milan, italy, may 25 2009. building the new lombardy region headquarter, projected by architects paolo caputo, massimo giuliani, henry n.cobb.

milan, italy, may 13 2004. architects paolo caputo, massimo giuliani, and henry n.cobb, with president of lombardy roberto formigoni, admiring the plastic model of next new lombardy region building, to replace the actual pirelli building.

milan, italy, may 25 2009. nobel prize for medicine discoveries, scientist luc montagnier, is now in milan meeting mayor letizia moratti and president of lombardy roberto formigoni.

samos island, greece, may 23 2009. abandoned life belt by clandestine immigrant in the morning on stony beach at agios konstantinos , after crossing the strait on night time from turkey right in front.

samos island, greece, may 23 2009. summit against clandestine immigration of iraqi, curds, afghans and other nationals swimming across the strait from turkey to the european island, only 800 meters distant as here in this photograph at psiliammos beach and turkey just in front.

milan, italy, may 21 2009. thriller writer jeffery deaver while answering his mobile in milan galleria after he presented his new work titled "bodies left behind".

milan, italy. may 18 2009. dario franceschini is now leader of left wing political parties union in italy named "pd partito democratico". here in a political meeting foreseeing next european elections.

milan, italy, may 18 2009. press conference after clandestine immigration summit:
(left-right) prefect of milan gian valerio lombardi, minister of interior roberto maroni, mayor of milan letizia moratti, mayor of turin roberto chiamparino.

milan, italy, may 18 2009. minister of interior roberto maroni, mayor of milan letizia moratti, and mayor of turin sergio chiamparino, they met for a summit with other politicians and police corps leaders to study situation of clandestine immigration in italy, and support and control from libya in their coastal area.

milan, italy, may 14 2009. vladimir luxuria, here showing her muscles, is a transexual very proud of his status, strong supporter of homosexuality freedom in italy, is radio and television conductor, with an experience as former politician.

milan, italy, may 13 2009. they met 50 years after that they were together at elementary school and each one got his own destiny: armando spataro (left) became a very important magistrate lawyer for investigation against mafia, instead giuseppe nicoloro became a press photographer. here both showing photograph when both children at school.

milan, italy. may 11 2009. honorary degree, doctorate in photography, confered to italian photographer gianni berengo gardin.

milan, italy, may 11 2009. chancellor enrico decleva of state university confered honorary degree, doctorate in photography, to italian photographer gianni berengo gardin.

milan, italy, may 7 2009. elias antonio saca gonzalez, president of the republic of el salvador (left), with mayor of the town of segrate mister adriano alessandrini right) here at goal net, they attended inauguration of a new football sport plant for children, asserting that football unites people in both countries.

milan, italy, april 30 2009. journalist arrigo levi, former director of newspaper corriere della sera, and after counselor of president of italy carlo azeglio ciampi,
has presented his book "a country is not enough" about jews during fascism.

milan, italy, april 30 2009. journalists ferruccio de bortoli, arrigo levi, and paolo mieli, all three have been in different times successfully directors of the most important italian newspaper corriere della sera, now directed by ferruccio de bortoli.

milan, italy, may 14 2009. john morris, former picture editor of life magazine, at spazio forma, told history of life of his great friend photographer robert capa, here in a photograph shot by willy ronis in 1939.