Articles by ITALY
Mon, 08/15/2005 - 03:41
(ANSA) - A 105-year-old American woman paraglided here in the western Italian Alps for close to a half an hour and was sorry when her experience ende…
Mon, 08/15/2005 - 03:38
(ANSA) - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was fined on the island of Capri for riding hisjet ski too close to shore and endangering bathers.The…
Mon, 08/15/2005 - 02:47
(ANSA) - Consumer groups organising a new 'strike' against high prices have decided to extend their protest to the fuel pump where the cost gasoline…
Mon, 08/15/2005 - 02:36
(ANSA) - One person was killed and five people injured, one critically, in a motorway accident caused by a prank, placing an engine block in the middl…
Sun, 08/14/2005 - 14:27
The Palio of Siena is fast approaching and Stefano Rossini applies his sharp analysis of this other Italian institution.Il 16 agosto di ogni anno, gli…
Fri, 08/12/2005 - 06:13
(ANSA) - The publication of new transcripts of wiretaps made during probes on takeover bids for two Italian banks fuelled a storm over Bank of I…
Fri, 08/12/2005 - 05:48
(ANSA) - A former Nazi officer sentenced to life for taking part in Italy's world War War II atrocity has not been allowed to go on holiday, a Rome mi…
Fri, 08/12/2005 - 05:43
(ANSA) - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi hailed positive economic growth figures on Thursday, saying they showed the country was pulling out of re…
Thu, 08/11/2005 - 05:50
A judge in the port city of Genoa has blocked the Italian soccer federation's preparations for the 2005-2006 season in a row over Genoa's relegation t…
Thu, 08/11/2005 - 05:08
(ANSA) - Rome prosecutors representing British police in extradition proceedings against a key suspect in the failed July 21 London bombings will prob…
Wed, 08/10/2005 - 14:17
(ANSA) - An Australian tourist got away with a scolding from Venice police on Wednesday after heabandoned a sluggish water bus and plunged into the G…
Wed, 08/10/2005 - 06:25
(ANSA) - A leading art historian has called for a 16th-century masterpiece to be locked up safely after another renowned Florentine sculpture was dam…
Wed, 08/10/2005 - 06:24
(ANSA) - Italians no longer appear to cultivate big dreams and have downsized their wishes to obtaining material goods or fame, according to a new stu…
Wed, 08/10/2005 - 05:20
(ANSA) - Once again the Feast of Saint Lawrence, also known as the Night of the Shooting Stars, will be toasted with wine throughout Italy in the hop…
Wed, 08/10/2005 - 05:13
(ANSA) - Premier Silvio Berlusconi denied on Tuesday that his Mediaset group was interested in buying Italy's biggest daily, hinting that the rumours…
Tue, 08/09/2005 - 07:53
(ANSA) - Enraged fans of Genoa soccer club rampaged through the city on Monday night after the Italian soccer federation confirmed a decision to rel…
Tue, 08/09/2005 - 06:13
(ANSA) - A local train carrying 50 passengers derailed outside Milan on Monday, leaving a fewpeople with cuts and bruises but no serious injuries.Th…
Tue, 08/09/2005 - 06:01
(ANSA) - Arsonists continue to strike in the Italian capital and last night set fire to five automobiles and three mopeds.Police have set up special…
Tue, 08/09/2005 - 05:11
(ANSA) - An Ethiopian arrested in Rome in connection with the failed bomb attacks in London last month has said he will answer any questions British…
Tue, 08/09/2005 - 05:06
(ANSA) - Investigations into the crash of a Tunisian-operated passenger plane in the sea off Sicily on Saturday are focusing on possible problems in t…