Articles by ITALY
Wed, 04/30/2008 - 03:19
AC Milan and Brazil striker Ronaldo is worried that Monday's sex and drugs scandal in Brazil involving three transvetite prostitutes could ruin his fo…
Tue, 04/29/2008 - 04:09
Project sponsored by the Centro Servizi Calzaturiero in collaboration with the Lucca Chamber of Commerce and the Environmental Ministry.Combating coun…
Tue, 04/29/2008 - 04:04
Former agriculture minister Giovanni Alemanno was voted in as Rome mayor on Monday, taking the Italian capital to the Right for the first time since t…
Tue, 04/29/2008 - 03:56
European Union gives definitive green light.After more than seven long years, Italian consumers (and not only) can once again eat the traditional ''fi…
Tue, 04/29/2008 - 03:50
Outgoing Italian Premier Romano Prodi has turned down an offer to become the head of South Stream, a major gas pipeline being built by Russian gas gia…
Tue, 04/29/2008 - 03:44
A Silvio Berlusconi ally slated to become Italy's next foreign minister outlined possible policies to reduce the country's immigrant population in an…
Tue, 04/29/2008 - 03:35
Italy was responsible for almost a quarter of all workplace deaths within the European Union (EU 15) in 2005, the most recent year for which comparabl…
Tue, 04/29/2008 - 03:27
Ferrari will not let this weekend's double Spanish Grand Prix victory go to its head, team principal Stefano Domenicali said on Monday.Domenicali warn…
Mon, 04/28/2008 - 10:12
Italy's highest appeals court disclosed on Monday that a suspect in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher must remain in custody because of h…
Mon, 04/28/2008 - 09:44
The European Commission cut its 2008 economic growth forecast for Italy again on Monday and warned that the country's budget deficit was back on the r…
Mon, 04/28/2008 - 09:13
Lufthansa on Monday signed a strategic partnership agreement with Milan's Malpensa airport that will see the German airline increase its European flig…
Mon, 04/28/2008 - 06:23
Although Italian wine exports continue to set new records, the sector is at risk because of falling domestic demand and a drop in production.This was…
Sat, 04/26/2008 - 03:08
Fiat posted record first quarter earnings in 2008 of some 10 billion euros, a 10% gain over the same period last year.The group's net profit hit 427 m…
Sat, 04/26/2008 - 03:06
Growing marijuana for personal use is still a crime, Italy's highest appeals court said Thursday against the advice of a top official.The Cassation Co…
Sat, 04/26/2008 - 03:04
Former British prime minister Tony Blair is in Rome to meet Vatican and Italian officials on Thursday in his capacity as the Mideast Quartet's special…
Sat, 04/26/2008 - 03:00
A school in the northern town of Bolzano is bringing dogs into the classroom in an experimental campaign to crack down on bullying.Funky, a specially…
Fri, 04/25/2008 - 03:10
Police have stopped a major haul of 'skunk' marijuana reaching the Italian streets.Police pulled over a truck travelling from Belgium at the Mt Blanc…
Fri, 04/25/2008 - 03:08
Alitalia's woes deepened on Thursday after the European Commission expressed doubts about a government loan designed to keep the near-bankrupt airline…
Fri, 04/25/2008 - 03:06
A series of Graffiti portraits of fugitive Cosa Nostra kingpin Matteo Messina Denaro appeared Thursday morning on a back wall of the Palermo cathedral…
Fri, 04/25/2008 - 03:04
A Berlin court on Wednesday ordered a German food company to stop making a product that mimics Italy's king of cheeses, Parmigiano Reggiano.The Allgau…