Over 5,000 people a month in Italy seek help from the Catholic relief organization Caritas because they are poor, according to a report presented by t…
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Fri, 10/19/2007 - 05:31
Trajan's Markets reopened to the public Thursday after two and a half years of work shoring up the famed complex and stocking up its glittering new Mu…
Fri, 10/19/2007 - 05:26
Italian screen icons Monica Bellucci and Sophia Loren kicked off the Rome Cinema Festival on Thursday.Bellucci was first on the Red Carpet for her fes…
Fri, 10/19/2007 - 04:41
A pizza in the Vatican colours, a massive image of Benedict XVI on the cathedral and 14 kilometres of crush barriers are among the props being readied…
Fri, 10/19/2007 - 03:50
Italy won't be playing for the draw against Scotland that would be enough to see them through to Euro 2008, coach Roberto Donadoni said after Scotland…
Fri, 10/19/2007 - 03:46
Suzuki announced on Thursday that it will not renew the contract of Italian rider Max Biaggi for the 2008 Superbike season.Biaggi, a former Grand Prix…
Thu, 10/18/2007 - 05:52
Flash News - A mysterious foam has been floating for several weeks on northern Italy's Lago Maggiore and experts are at a loss to explain what it is a…
Thu, 10/18/2007 - 05:39
Rome's first solo show on Paul Gauguin looks at the resonance of the Eternal city's myths and legend in the the art of French post-Impressionist paint…
Thu, 10/18/2007 - 04:19
Factbox - The pope on Wednesday named the following 23 new cardinals, whose appointments will be formalised at a ceremony in the Vatican on November 2…
Thu, 10/18/2007 - 04:07
Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday named 23 new cardinals, including 18 who will join the group of 'princes of the Church' who must elect a successor when…
Thu, 10/18/2007 - 04:03
Juventus greats Marco Tardelli, Franco Causio and Roberto Boninsegna on Wednesday hailed club icon Alessandro Del Piero's long-sought deal to extend h…
Thu, 10/18/2007 - 03:57
Alitalia and Air France-KLM will open talks in the coming weeks regarding a possible sale of a controlling stake in the Italian airline to the French-…
Wed, 10/17/2007 - 05:32
The first step in a plan to tackle Milan's smog problem by making the worst polluters pay got under way on Tuesday.Under the scheme, drivers will even…
Wed, 10/17/2007 - 05:20
Famous for its parmesan cheese and prosciutto, Parma is offering up nourishment for the mind over the next three months with the first edition of its…
Wed, 10/17/2007 - 04:57
Legends and myths about the order of the Knights Templar, especially after Dan Brown's series of books on the subject, abound - so the relatively rece…
Wed, 10/17/2007 - 04:25
This southern Italian island's famous dessert wine Passito risks becoming extinct over the next decade unless the constant drop in production is rever…
Wed, 10/17/2007 - 03:44
Pope Benedict XVI marked World Food Day on Tuesday with a message urging all countries of the world to consider food a universal human right to be pro…
Wed, 10/17/2007 - 03:41
Italy coach Roberto Donadoni is set to field a largely experimental team in Wednesday's friendly against World Cup hosts South Africa in Siena - a key…
Wed, 10/17/2007 - 03:36
Ferrari announced on Tuesday that it had extended the contract of Brazilian driver Felipe Massa until the end of the 2010 Formula 1 season.Massa, 26,…
Tue, 10/16/2007 - 04:16
Flash News - A large rockslide hit a car park in the northern Italian Dolomite mountains early on Friday but no one was hurt, Italian rescue services…