Articles by ITALY

New European Footballer of the Year Kaka' of AC Milan is ''an example on and off the field,'' Milan CEO Adriano Galliani said on Monday.''I'm pleased…
Inter coach Roberto Mancini sees the way clear for a leap in his team's hopes of retaining the Serie A title.''That was a crucial win,'' he said after…
A Mafia boss was arrested while watching a hit TV serial on the career of bloody don Salvatore Riina.Michele Catalano, boss of Palermo's infamous Zen…
One of Italy's loveliest Renaissance buildings is taking a step into the future, adding a series of ''electronic frescoes'' to its extensive art colle…
A preliminary hearings judge on Friday ruled that suspects in the brutal murder here of a 22-year old British exchange student must remain in custody.…
Tuscany is second in Italy in exports to UAE - Italian exports to the United Arab Emirates exceeded 2.1 billion euros (+41.3%) in the second trimester…
Rome will be at the forefront of the world's largest protest against the death penalty on Friday, just days ahead of a crucial United Nations vote on…
Pope Benedict XVI blasted atheism in a new document released on Friday, saying that in modern times it had produced terrible cruelty and injustice.In…
Italians will be tightening their belts and spending less for presents this Christmas, at the end of a year in which many families were forced to make…
A worldwide bestseller about the Naples Mafia is now being turned into a film.The book, Gomorra by Roberto Saviano, is so raw and revealing that Savia…
pharmaceuticals to counter osteoporosis and cardiac illness - Florentine pharmaceutical company Stroder will promote and distribute two new drugs in I…
This past year's unusual climate severely hurt Italian farm production and should the change in the weather become permanent Italy's farming sector co…
Luciano Pavarotti and Zucchero have been inducted into the Rome Wax Museum to celebrate its 50th anniversary.The late tenor and the rock singer are mo…
The arrivals of foreign tourists in Italy climbed 7.6% in the first eight months of the year over the same period in 2006, Touring Club Italiano (TCI)…
Twenty-six thousand buyers and 675 stands (for a total of 811 brands) are expected at the 73rd edition of Pitti Uomo in Florence from January 9 to 12.…
Italy has made a new map of the volcanic threats posed by the famed islands of Stromboli and Vulcano.Using an instrument called a magnetometer, scient…
Florence's once-famed Santo Spirito church reopened on Thursday after a two-year hunt for protection against the vandals and drug pushers that wiped i…
Venice airport operator SAVE will invest 54 mln euro ($78.9 mln) in the next three years in expanding and improving the services at the airport in the…
Italian broadband operator Tiscali expects to post a net profit in 2008 and to generate a cash flow of over 650 million euros by 2012, a company state…
Pharmaceutics multinational Novartis has signed a preliminary agreement with the Tuscan regional government to carry out co-financed clinical research…