Articles by ITALY
Thu, 09/01/2005 - 05:08
(ANSA) - Pop superstar Elton John, who dismissed the recent Live 8 concerts as "boring", appears intent on making sure that his show at the Colosseum…
Thu, 09/01/2005 - 04:48
Michael John Partington reviews an exhibition about the half-forgotten Renaissance poet Vittoria Colonna at Casa Buonarroti in FlorenceThat which the…
Wed, 08/31/2005 - 07:57
(ANSA) - Savona - An Italian couple took out an entire page in a northern Italian newspaper to mourn its pet dog. The death notice in Genoa daily Seco…
Wed, 08/31/2005 - 04:48
(ANSA) - Rome is studying the possibility of launching a major new international cinema festival capable of cutting mustard with the likes of Cannes…
Wed, 08/31/2005 - 04:40
(ANSA) - A statue of saint Jose Maria Escriva, the sometimes controversial founder of the Catholic Opus Dei movement, was installed on Tuesday in a ni…
Wed, 08/31/2005 - 04:35
(ANSA) - An Italian government party has stirred outrage by using the word "mongrel" to describe the possible entry into politics of a Tunisian-born…
Tue, 08/30/2005 - 13:03
(ANSA) - According to a classification of the most successful 100 brands worldwide, Italian luxury fashion brand Gucci, estimated at $6.6 bln (5.358 b…
Tue, 08/30/2005 - 05:47
Our resident Italian contributor Stefano Rossini, uses the occasion of the start of the Italian football league to analyse the relationships between I…
Tue, 08/30/2005 - 05:37
(ANSA) - Pierluigi Collina, the world's most famous referee, shocked Italian soccer on Monday by quitting because of a row over a sponsorship deal. T…
Mon, 08/29/2005 - 06:03
(ANSA) - The Italian authorities have sent out a ship carrying a team of its top scientists on a mission to find a highly precious commodity - 10,000…
Mon, 08/29/2005 - 05:40
(ANSA) - Lampedusa, August 28 - Migrant-filled boats were towed to safety to the island of Lampedusa and to abeach near Agrigento on Sunday.Officia…
Mon, 08/29/2005 - 05:31
The 62nd edition of the world's oldest cinema festival kicks off in Venice on Wednesday.Read on for an overview of the movies that will be competing f…
Fri, 08/26/2005 - 06:30
(ANSA) - Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu announced today that the first of a series of major anti-terror drill in Italy's largest cities will take p…
Fri, 08/26/2005 - 06:09
(ANSA) - A priceless set of ancient jewellery, probably from Egypt, is the latest archaeological jackpot experts have struck on this southern Italian…
Fri, 08/26/2005 - 05:57
(ANSA) - Here is an overview of the 20 teams competing in the new Serie A season, which kicks off this weekend Juventus: The arrival of French intern…
Fri, 08/26/2005 - 05:53
(ANSA) - The former commissioner of the Italian Red Cross (CRI) sparked a political storm on Thursday when he revealed that his organisation treated…
Thu, 08/25/2005 - 11:27
When we were at the Dolce Vita exhibition in London last April a number of readers who visited the stand asked if we could do more on Italy’s islands,…
Thu, 08/25/2005 - 06:36
The "Gruppo Archeologico Spezzino" dedicated 2005 to escavation in the area of the Carpena castle in this beautiful Ligurian town. Following the imp…
Thu, 08/25/2005 - 06:36
(ANSA) - Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu warned Wednesday that Italy's soccer clubs must be ready to implement the government's new anti-hooliganism…
Thu, 08/25/2005 - 04:54
(ANSA) - The Italian home town of silent movie great Rudolph Valentino is continuing its campaign to revive the actor's legend with a new cinema fes…