Italy - boiling baby talk

Silvio Berlusconi's election campaign has not gone all that well - latest exit polls show him in a tight race - but at least the Chinese will remember him if he fades from view. During an election rally in Naples he alluded to the supposed historical Chinese Communist practice of boiling dead babies to make fertilizer. "Groundless talk" say the Chinese.

The Italian media have noted that it's a shame that it's the Italian year of culture in China - an expensive promotion by the Foreign Ministry that didn't include such an interesting perspective more from the Corriere Della Sera...