The shortlist for the world's top international television animation competition, Cartoons On The Bay, was unveiled on Wednesday in Salerno, near Napl…
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Thu, 02/28/2008 - 03:53
Sicilian crime writer Andrea Camilleri has been ranked alongside the masters of the genre in a list published by British newspaper The Daily Telegraph…
Thu, 02/28/2008 - 03:47
An image of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa clutching coloured recycling bags was unveiled Wednesday in a fresh appeal to Naples residents to start diff…
Thu, 02/28/2008 - 03:40
Lovers of traditional Sicilian cuisine will soon be able to dine and stay at a country property that once belonged to Italy's bloodiest Mafia boss.The…
Thu, 02/28/2008 - 03:31
Priests and trainee clergymen will soon be shooting hoops and slam dunking in the name of the Catholic Church as the Vatican gears up for a new basket…
Thu, 02/28/2008 - 03:22
Last year's Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca is facing a two-year ban because of the suspiciously low level of hormones found in his body after he…
Wed, 02/27/2008 - 03:43
The launch of Italy's glitziest and most hyped television event of the year - the week-long Sanremo song festival - didn't exactly transfix the nation…
Wed, 02/27/2008 - 03:37
With elections six weeks away, Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right formation maintained a healthy advantage over its main centre-left rival in opinion po…
Wed, 02/27/2008 - 03:33
A huge retrospective of the works of New York photographer Richard Avedon, the man responsible for revolutionising fashion photography, has opened in…
Wed, 02/27/2008 - 03:28
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Tuesday said Germany broke European Union rules by allowing the name 'Parmesan' to be used for a German cheese…
Wed, 02/27/2008 - 03:23
Skippers Giovanni Soldini and Vincenzo Onorato are the front-runners for this year's 'Helmsman of the Year' award, which will be handed out here Tuesd…
Wed, 02/27/2008 - 03:18
Italy coach Nick Mallett on Tuesday named his squad for Italy's fourth Six Nations match, against France in Paris on Sunday March 9. The only change f…
Wed, 02/27/2008 - 03:14
Former Bari coach Beppe Materazzi is in talks to become the next manager of Iran.''They asked me if I was available to coach the Persian national team…
Tue, 02/26/2008 - 04:38
Fiorentina's Romanian striker Adrian Mutu will be out for a month with a knee injury sustained in Sunday's 1-0 loss at Roma, doctors said Monday.The 2…
Tue, 02/26/2008 - 04:22
Italy picked up two (or three) Oscars at Sunday night's Academy Awards with Dario Marianelli winning the best score prize for Atonement and the husban…
Tue, 02/26/2008 - 04:17
Fiat boss Luca Cordero de Montezemolo weighed into a refereeing row on Monday by claiming that he had never seen as game refereed as badly as the one…
Tue, 02/26/2008 - 04:10
Italian consumer rights organizations on Monday threatened to stage a new spending strike to protest what they see as runaway inflation for goods of p…
Tue, 02/26/2008 - 04:05
Italy marked World Slow Day on Monday with a host of initiatives reminding people to ease off and savour the good things in life under the slogan ''sl…
Tue, 02/26/2008 - 03:51
Police in Bari arrested 24 people on Monday, dismantling one of the oldest and most feared mafia clans that threatened to use a pool of young 'kamikaz…
Tue, 02/26/2008 - 03:29
A 'gentleman thief' who presented his victims with red roses was nabbed in Genoa on Monday.Police said they had tracked down the man, 48, by following…