Consumer watchdog Codacons on Tuesday threatened ''the biggest shopping strike ever held in Italy'' in September if producers do not cut prices in a…
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Sat, 08/16/2008 - 03:30
Italy's GDP fell 0.3% in the second quarter over the previous three-month period, its worst short-term performance since the last quarter of 2007,…
Sat, 08/16/2008 - 03:30
Any hopes Inter Milan had of signing Frank Lampard in the future all but vanished on Wednesday when the England midfielder extended his contract wi…
Sat, 08/16/2008 - 03:30
A British tourist on Wednesday complained to police after being presented with a 30-euro bill for three sandwiches at a bar in a Sicilian seaside…
Fri, 08/15/2008 - 03:30
Inter's Palermo-born Ghanian striker Mario Balotelli officially received his citizenship papers on Wednesday and said he was ''proud to an Italian'…
Fri, 08/15/2008 - 03:30
Italy's ever-growing number of holiday farms are expecting full occupancy for the mid-August Ferragosto holiday which marks the Feast of the Assumpt…
Thu, 08/14/2008 - 03:40
The seaside Abruzzo town of Vasto is celebrating the family of one its most famous exiles, Gabriele Rossetti, whose English-born offspring caused a…
Thu, 08/14/2008 - 03:29
The first international opera singing contest in memory of the late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti has drawn 250 contestants from 32 countries.…
Thu, 08/14/2008 - 03:23
Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday urged the Catholic Church in Latin America to fight against ''the plague of corruption and indifference'' in the reg…
Thu, 08/14/2008 - 03:21
Alitalia personnel will stage an unprecedented symbolic one-minute strike at midday on September 6, flight attendants' union SDL said Wednesday.…
Thu, 08/14/2008 - 03:17
Italian swimmer Federica Pellegrini on Wednesday won the 200 metre women's freestyle, breaking her own world record in the process and becoming the…
Wed, 08/13/2008 - 03:28
United States President George W. Bush conferred by phone on Tuesday with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on the crisis in Georgia, White House s…
Wed, 08/13/2008 - 03:24
Two Northern League senators on Tuesday began a campaign to make distilling northern Italy's famous Grappa spirit at home legal. Enrico Montani…
Wed, 08/13/2008 - 03:19
An estimated five million cars are expected to hit Italy's motorways during this coming weekend's Ferragosto holiday marking the Feast of the Assum…
Wed, 08/13/2008 - 03:16
In the future the army may be deployed to inspect worksites to ensure they respect safety codes and labor laws, Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa s…
Wed, 08/13/2008 - 03:10
An all-singing, all-dancing army of Christian volunteers are gearing up for a mass evangelization of Riccione, one of the most popular - and wildes…
Tue, 08/12/2008 - 03:29
Italy is ready to send troops to South Ossetia if the European Union decides to intervene in the conflict between Georgia and Russia, Foreign Minist…
Tue, 08/12/2008 - 03:25
Italian DJs on Monday pledged to help cut down post-disco road traffic deaths caused by drunk-driving following a horrific accident in Puglia that…
Tue, 08/12/2008 - 03:22
European Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani on Monday urged the proper application of European law relating to road safety after eight people di…
Tue, 08/12/2008 - 03:18
Italian fencer Valentina Vezzali on Monday won her third individual gold in a row in as many Olympic Games allow Italy to temporarily climb to fou…