Venice city council is hushing up the opening of a new high-tech bridge over the lagoon city's Grand Canal after opposition politicians threatened to…
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Tue, 08/26/2008 - 03:35
Possible members of a consortium to rescue ailing national carrier Alitalia dodged questions after a three-hour meeting at advisor bank Intesa San Pao…
Tue, 08/26/2008 - 03:25
A CD of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi singing Neapolitan love songs may still make it onto the shelves in time for Christmas, his song-writing part…
Tue, 08/26/2008 - 03:21
Inter Milan coach Jose' Mourinho paid tribute to his predecessor Roberto Mancini after his new team beat Roma on penalties to lift the Italian Super C…
Tue, 08/26/2008 - 03:16
Ferrari has defended world champion Kimi Raikkonen after the Finn fell to third in the Formula One race as teammate Felipe Massa closed on leader Lewi…
Mon, 08/25/2008 - 03:44
A film by British director David Leland updating one of Italy's most famous literary works in the style of Hollywood gross-out movies is to open in It…
Mon, 08/25/2008 - 03:39
Medical teams are to test drivers for drugs at a police roadblock in a pilot scheme in an unidentified northern Italian city next weekend, the governm…
Mon, 08/25/2008 - 03:35
Italian household debt has doubled since the euro was introduced, a retail association reported on Thursday.Average household debt has risen by 93% in…
Sat, 08/23/2008 - 03:10
A new ice-cream flavoured with Italy's king of cheeses, Parmigiano Reggiano, is proving a smash hit in China, its inventors said Thursday.Italo-Chines…
Sat, 08/23/2008 - 03:04
The prehistoric mummy known as the Iceman was a shepherd and not a hunter, a new study from Germany claims.Saarland University experts came to the con…
Fri, 08/22/2008 - 03:08
The Mediterranean is the ''most invaded'' sea on earth, Italy's marine environment protection agency IRPA said Thurday.Two alien species now enter the…
Fri, 08/22/2008 - 03:06
A 55-year-old Indian woman living in northern Italy has given birth to quadruplets after returning to India for fertility treatment.The woman, who has…
Fri, 08/22/2008 - 03:04
The idea of an official visit by Pope Benedict XVI to China was ''entirely premature,'' the Vatican said Thursday.Responding to an invitation the bish…
Fri, 08/22/2008 - 03:02
An Italian businessman has been freed after five days in the hands of a kidnap gang in Venezuela.Guido Mancini, 53, a petrochemicals operator, thanked…
Fri, 08/22/2008 - 03:00
''It was a very nice feeling,'' World Cup hero Marcello Lippi said after the first match of his second term as Italy coach, a 2-2 draw against Austria…
Thu, 08/21/2008 - 03:52
Some of the finest masterpieces of Etruscan art are returning to Italy from Russia's Hermitage museum for a show starting next month in the heartland…
Thu, 08/21/2008 - 03:45
This year's extraordinary rise in pasta prices has been even higher than previously thought, the Italian Treasury said Wednesday.But the price of whea…
Thu, 08/21/2008 - 03:39
Members of Italy's Communist parties were up in arms on Wednesday after a Catania court took a 16-year-old boy away from his mother, allegedly because…
Thu, 08/21/2008 - 03:31
The lawyers of a suspect in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher said Wednesday they were considering legal action after a United States new…
Thu, 08/21/2008 - 03:27
The northern Italian city of Verona is in a flap about naming a street after a local hero who fought and died for Mussolini at the end of the Second W…