After refusing for years to even consider allowing advertising on the water buses that plough up and down the Grand Canal, Venice city council has fin…
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Mon, 04/23/2007 - 05:36
Rain storms can smash pollen into little bits that spark asthma attacks in people who don't suffer from the ailment, Italian researchers have found.Ra…
Mon, 04/23/2007 - 05:32
Italy's Nobel-winning physicist Carlo Rubbia has issued one of the most alarming warnings yet about climate change, saying that if humanity fails to c…
Sun, 04/22/2007 - 05:59
Forget sea, sex, sand and sensational cooking - Italians are the least happy people in Europe, according to a surprising new poll.Cambridge University…
Sun, 04/22/2007 - 05:59
Italian environmental organizations are gearing up for their annual spring battle against illegal migratory-bird hunters at the Strait of Messina.The…
Sun, 04/22/2007 - 05:57
US novelist Philip Roth on Wednesday paid tribute to Primo Levi, recalling a brief but intense friendship in the year before the great Holocaust witne…
Sun, 04/22/2007 - 05:56
A group of Italy's top doctors have signed a joint document railing against the spread of alternative medicine, as parliament considers legislation th…
Sun, 04/22/2007 - 05:51
One of Italy's culinary glories, extra-virgin olive oil, is feeling the effects of climate change, a new guide says.The latest quality tags awarded to…
Sun, 04/22/2007 - 05:49
Workplace safety remained in the spotlight on Wednesday after another worker was killed on the job in Tuscany - the fifth such death in the last two d…
Sat, 04/21/2007 - 06:12
The reputation of Futurist artist Mario Sironi, reviled in the post-war period for his links to Fascism, is set to receive a further boost from a new…
Sat, 04/21/2007 - 06:07
Three of Lorenzo Ghiberti's famed Gates of Paradise panels are winging their way from Italy to America this week.The bronze panels from Florence's Bap…
Sat, 04/21/2007 - 06:00
Rome is set to show off its ancient glory in a swathe of old and new museums centred on the Capitol Hill."It will be a new Louvre," said Mayor Walter…
Sat, 04/21/2007 - 05:52
Italians claim to have sex more often, for longer and with more orgasms than people in most other countries in the world, yet only a third are satisfi…
Sat, 04/21/2007 - 05:49
Far from getting fat on 'foreign' junk food, most Italians are still clinging to the traditional Mediterranean diet that has won so much praise from d…
Sat, 04/21/2007 - 05:48
US President George W. Bush will pay an official visit to Italy in June, the foreign ministry confirmed on Thursday.Foreign ministry spokesman Pasqual…
Sat, 04/21/2007 - 05:45
Most Italians enjoy a fulfilling sex life well into their old age, according to a survey issued on Friday.The poll, presented at a conference here on…
Fri, 04/20/2007 - 05:41
A row over the expansion of an American military base in Vicenza has flared up again, with protesters occupying the northern city's most important mon…
Fri, 04/20/2007 - 05:36
The US ambassador to Rome criticised Italy's ability to attract foreign investors on Thursday after an American telecommunications company dropped its…
Fri, 04/20/2007 - 05:32
As the Treasury began its examination of three rival bids for Alitalia, Air France-KLM ruled out any interest in the national flag carrier.
The chi…
Fri, 04/20/2007 - 05:29
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet Pope Benedict in the Vatican next week during the Italian leg of a European tour aimed at easing the int…