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(Travel + Leisure) -- From an ancient stone villa in Piedmont to an atelier in Florence, we reveal Italy's best affordable country inns.An unassuming cream-stone house with blue shutters in Le Marche's Conero Park, Novecamere Resort is not for those seeking high-tech amenities. Eco-conscious and organic are the aesthetic here.The nine guest rooms are stylishly spare with natural oak floors, white Conero-stone walls, and handmade linens. For breakfast, owner Isabella Fabiani serves salumi, cherries, plums, peaches, and grapes straight from her farm, and she'll whip up fluffy goat-cheese omelettes on demand.Globe-trotting owner Laura Elsa Valente has transformed her family's 18th-century palazzo in the medieval town of Asti into a fashionable country retreat.The seven rooms -- four of which have restored ceiling frescoes, discovered during the renovation -- are appointed with Turkish silk floral carpets and Moroccan wrought-iron lamps sourced from Valente's travels. [Read the full article] (CNN) -- Two brothers have been arrested and charged with aggravated battery after allegedly attacking and chasing a pilot at Miami International Airport.The bizarre incident began on board an American Airlines flight bound for San Francisco on Wednesday evening.As the plane was taxiing out, a flight attendant noticed that Jonathan Baez was sleeping and not wearing his seat belt. She tried to wake him up, but he was "unresponsive and appeared to be intoxicated or on narcotics," according to the Miami-Dade Police Department arrest report.The pilot then returned the plane to the gate and tried several times to wake Baez. When the passenger awoke, he was told he couldn't fly in his condition and was asked to leave the plane, police said. [Read the full article] Philadelphia (CNN) -- Police arrested a woman Wednesday at Philadelphia International Airport after authorities alleged she made terroristic threats and intimidated passengers and crew.At about 3:15 p.m., flight attendants on a U.S. Airways flight from London alerted airport police that an unruly passenger was threatening to blow up their plane and making other threats against the crew, passengers, and the U.S. government, according police documents.The passenger, Hannah Marie Shiner, of Roseville, California, allegedly threatened airplane crew, blurted expletives against the government and said, "Blow up the government!" a police press release said. It included allegations she made numerous references to the "9/11 attack" and claimed Shiner said she supported Osama bin Laden and the 2001 attack on the Pentagon.According to Philadelphia police, her profane and threatening rant did not stop when the plane was on the ground. [Read the full article] 
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