Articles by ITALY
Thu, 09/08/2005 - 05:49
(ANSA) - American actor Bruce Willis has agreed to head the jury at this year's Miss Italy beauty pageant.
The 50-year-old 'Die Hard' star will be…
Wed, 09/07/2005 - 05:40
(ANSA) - Bank of Italy Governor Antonio Fazio showed no sign on Tuesday of giving in to mounting pressure to resign over a bank takeover scandal. Fa…
Wed, 09/07/2005 - 05:36
(ANSA) - A controversial Muslim preacher once accused of defending Osama bin Laden has been expelled from Italy, the Italian Interior Ministry said on…
Wed, 09/07/2005 - 05:30
(ANSA) - The Tuscan home of Giovanni Boccaccio, the 14th-century Italian poet who wrote the famously ribald Decameron stories, is to undergo long-awai…
Tue, 09/06/2005 - 12:42
(ANSA) - Style guru Giorgio Armani on Sunday night showed off his singing skills at a chic disco on this famed island in the Bay of Naples. After la…
Tue, 09/06/2005 - 08:56
(ANSA) - Fiat expects to enter into a new strategic alliance before the end of the year, Fiat Group CEO Sergio Marchionne announced here on Tuesday. S…
Tue, 09/06/2005 - 05:13
(ANSA) - As Ferrari cars continue to limp unhappily around the world's Formula 1 tracks, Italians appear to be losing interest in the sport they have…
Tue, 09/06/2005 - 05:04
(ANSA) - Venice could suffer the same fate as New Orleans, Veneto Governor Giancarlo Galan warned on Monday. Galan said a new centre-left government…
Tue, 09/06/2005 - 04:59
(ANSA) - The managing director of Italy's rail company Trenitalia has been summoned to the transport ministry to explain a case in which lice were fou…
Tue, 09/06/2005 - 04:54
Alitalia flight attendants are striking for 48 hours starting at just after 12 midnight of Tuesday. The strike is going ahead despite it being banned…
Mon, 09/05/2005 - 05:55
(ANSA) - The Italian government is to take action to force Bank of Italy Governor Antonio Fazio out of office after he failed to resign over allegatio…
Mon, 09/05/2005 - 05:46
(ANSA) - Sicilian activist priest Ennio Pintacuda died on Sunday morning aged 72.Pintacuda, a Jesuit theologian and sociologist, urged Catholics to ta…
Mon, 09/05/2005 - 05:42
(ANSA) - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has an exit strategy ready if he loses next year's general election. "If I'm defeated I'll sail off to Tah…
Mon, 09/05/2005 - 05:35
(ANSA) - Italy has opened a probe after a gay blood donor was turned away from a Milan hospital. Health Minister Francesco Storace called the case "u…
Mon, 09/05/2005 - 05:32
(ANSA) - Italian archaeologists have found a new Etruscan necropolis at this Tuscan hilltown, one of the major centres of the pre-Roman civilisation.…
Fri, 09/02/2005 - 04:44
Premier Silvio Berlusconi is not looking to squabble with his UDC centrist allies despite their repeated criticism of his policies and hints that the…
Fri, 09/02/2005 - 04:33
(ANSA) - Pope Benedict XVI voiced his "deep sorrow" on Thursday over the deaths of over 900 Shia Muslim Iraqis in a panic-stricken stampede in Baghdad…
Fri, 09/02/2005 - 04:31
(ANSA) - Organisers of the 2005 Miss Italia beauty pageant have decided to have contestants wear bikinis in the finals as part of a bid to bring the…
Thu, 09/01/2005 - 12:18
(ANSA) - The 62nd edition of what promises to be the most star-studded Venice Film Festival ever got underway on Wednesday evening. George Clooney, R…
Thu, 09/01/2005 - 05:17
(ANSA) - There is no evidence that the Bank of Italy discriminated against two foreign banks involved in separate takeover bids of Italian banks, a Eu…