Articles by ITALY
Tue, 04/22/2008 - 03:42
Italy's highest appeals court has ruled that two suspects in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher must remain in custody because of their ''…
Tue, 04/22/2008 - 03:34
A goalkeeper who played in the women's Serie C for her hometown of Favara, Sicily, will take her final solemn vows as a Franciscan nun later this week…
Tue, 04/22/2008 - 03:27
Juventus icon Alessandro Del Piero is hoping his recent form will get him back into the Italy squad for Euro 2008.''I'd really love to get to Euro 200…
Tue, 04/22/2008 - 03:20
Roma skipper Francesco Totti will make another surprisingly quick return from injury, the doctor who operated on his knee said Monday.''I found a perf…
Mon, 04/21/2008 - 06:18
THREE STEPS TO MAKING A PURCHASE
Step 1
A formal written offer is made and a deposit of 10% should be available to send as soon as the offer is acce…
Mon, 04/21/2008 - 03:38
Bolgheri's Tenuta dell'Ornellaia sold a bottle of Salmanazar for $33,600 (400 times its market value) at a Christie's auction in October.The one-of-a-…
Mon, 04/21/2008 - 03:33
Happy couples in Italy are forking out the equivalent of two years' salary to pay for their wedding day, a report by consumers' association Federconsu…
Mon, 04/21/2008 - 03:25
The new ''Benessere Valdera'' project proposes an online market for locally grown organic products. Thanks to an Internet portal, by the end of 2008 c…
Mon, 04/21/2008 - 03:17
Italy's only world heavyweight boxing champ, giant 1930s slugger Primo Carnera, has inspired a movie that aims to set the record straight about a man-…
Sun, 04/20/2008 - 03:08
Italy ended 2007 with a deficit/GDP ratio of 1.9% and a public debt/GDP ratio of 104%, Eurostat said Friday, confirming Italian data.The Eurostat figu…
Sun, 04/20/2008 - 03:06
An Italian who spent two months as a hostage in Iraq was on Friday sent to trial for illegally recruiting personnel for a foreign state.Salvatore Stef…
Sun, 04/20/2008 - 03:04
Italian police on Friday recovered three statues belonging to Colombian artist Fernando Botero, Latin America's most famous living artist, that were s…
Sun, 04/20/2008 - 03:02
A local health authority officer responsible for enforcing Italy's smoking ban was fined on Friday after police caught him in his office with a lit ci…
Sun, 04/20/2008 - 03:00
Industrial orders rose 14.3% in February compared with February 2007, Italian statistics institute Istat said Friday.Orders rose 2% between January an…
Sat, 04/19/2008 - 03:10
The trial of a former church custodian accused of faking an incident in which a statue of the Virgin Mary wept tears of blood began in the northern ci…
Sat, 04/19/2008 - 03:09
China has lifted its ban on the import and sale of buffalo-milk mozzarella from Italy, Italian Ambassador Riccardo Sessa said Friday.China's food safe…
Sat, 04/19/2008 - 03:08
Aeroflot may play a part in Alitalia's future even if the ailing Italian carrier is taken over by Air France, Italian premier-in-waiting Silvio Berlus…
Sat, 04/19/2008 - 03:06
Record numbers of Italians are travelling abroad for medical treatment, patient figures released on Thursday showed.Around 5,000 Italian 'health touri…
Sat, 04/19/2008 - 03:05
A surprise casualty of Italy's general election was the country's bewildering maze of multi-party politics which had made it an anomaly among Western…
Sat, 04/19/2008 - 03:04
Young teenagers - and especially girls - in Italy are drinking too much alcohol, a report by the Higher Institute of Health (ISS) revealed on Thursday…