A forest fire emergency returned on Friday as blazes swept through large swathes of the country, leaving six people injured and destroying hundreds of…
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Sun, 09/02/2007 - 06:45
A 73-year-old woman was taken into custody on Tuesday after police discovered cannabis plants growing in her garden at Torre Annunziata near Naples.Th…
Sun, 09/02/2007 - 05:56
Italian police on Thursday arrested 40 suspected members of two 'Ndrangheta gangs whose long-running feud erupted in a mid-August massacre in Germany.…
Sun, 09/02/2007 - 05:04
Italian motorcycling hero Valentino Rossi indicated on Thursday that he will pay up without a fight if a probe into suspected tax evasion worth millio…
Sun, 09/02/2007 - 04:59
Italian researchers have found a gene implicated in the development of breast cancer.A team led by Bruno Amati of Rome's European Oncology Institute s…
Sun, 09/02/2007 - 04:56
Italian Agriculture Minister Paolo De Castro on Friday praised Italian and French researchers for successfully mapping the grape vine genome."This is…
Sun, 09/02/2007 - 04:53
The tax breaks enjoyed by the Catholic Church in Italy are coming under the magnifying glass of the European Commission which thinks they may breach E…
Sat, 09/01/2007 - 06:49
A northern city's controversial bid to grant family status to cohabiting couples including same-sex ones suffered a legal setback this week.Padua's ce…
Sat, 09/01/2007 - 06:49
Grimaldi Ferry Lines has allocated 240 million for purchase of six new ferries from China, a company statement said Friday.Finnlines, Grimaldi's paren…
Sat, 09/01/2007 - 06:48
This northern Italian city is celebrating Futurism and the influence the Italian-born movement had on 20th century art with a huge exhibition opening…
Sat, 09/01/2007 - 05:02
An Italian researcher has conceived a theory he says might one day create suits like the adhesive costume worn by comics superhero Spiderman.Nicola Pu…
Sat, 09/01/2007 - 05:00
Italy great Roberto Baggio has hinted he might agree to coach China.During a promotional tour of the Asian country ahead of next year's Beijing Olympi…
Sat, 09/01/2007 - 04:57
Italy's powerful industrial employers' federation Confindustria weighed into a heated tax row on Wednesday, urging the government to lower taxes as a…
Sat, 09/01/2007 - 04:56
Nearly half of all graduates in the underdeveloped southern half of Italy are forced to move north in order to find work, a report said on Tuesday.The…
Sat, 09/01/2007 - 04:52
Fish and marine mammals are becoming deaf, failing to reproduce and even dying because of underwater man-made noise pollution, an Italian expert warne…
Sat, 09/01/2007 - 04:18
The north's mighty River Po is shrinking and unless urgent action is taken it could soon be too low for shipping purposes, river experts warned on Thu…
Fri, 08/31/2007 - 06:52
A Vesuvius hotline was jammed by alarmed callers Thursday after reports that the volcano might be set to erupt."One poor old dear wanted to know where…
Fri, 08/31/2007 - 06:47
An English sailing ship which sank 154 years ago as it tried to enter the Venetian lagoon was pulled out of the water on Thursday and will now be clea…
Fri, 08/31/2007 - 06:42
Two men from Acerra near Naples went on hunger strike on Thursday to demand the return of a statue of the Madonna that was once at the centre of a mir…
Fri, 08/31/2007 - 06:25
At least five people were injured on Thursday when a freak tornado ripped through several towns and villages near Bergamo in northern Italy.The tornad…