Italy celebrates Sonia win

Rediff: "The mayor of Sonia Gandhi's birthplace in northern Italy offered warm congratulations after she led her Congress party to apparent victory in the Lok Sabha elections. Many other Italians were caught by surprise. Gandhi was born Sonia Maino in the town of Orbassano, near Turin. Her father was a building contractor and she was raised in a conservative Roman Catholic family before moving to India as a 21-year-old bride."