Articles by ITALY
(ANSA) - Parliament on Wednesday approved a new electoral system which the opposition says is designed to help Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right alli…
(ANSA) - Italy is hailing a new skiing star they hope will emulate the great Alberto Tomba. Giorgio Rocca, already a veteran at 30, won the special s…
(ANSA) - Italy's homicide rate is the seventh highest in the European Union with more than 700 murders in 2004, according to a crime report issued on…
(ANSA) -Police smashed an Italo-Albanian crime ring on Tuesday, issuing arrest warrants for 80 suspects accused of trafficking in arms, drugs and immi…
(ANSA) - 0ne of Rome's prime tourist attractions, the ruins of Nero's Domus Aurea, is to be closed to the public for two years because of safety conce…
(ANSA) - Leftwing candidate Francantonio Genovese on Monday became mayor for the Sicilian city of Messina, continuing a long stretch of wins by the ce…
(ANSA) - The European Commission on Tuesday is expected to give its green light to initiating legal action against Italy for its handling of takeover…
(ANSA) - Pope Benedict XVI said on Sunday that materialism was suffocating the true spirit of Christmas. Addressing thousands of pilgrims gathered in…
(ANSA) - Senator Marcello Dell'Utri, a key associate of Premier Silvio Berlusconi, said on Sunday that he expected Berlusconi to remain in politics ev…
(ANSA) - Magistrates on Sunday impounded a site in the Italian Alps near Turin where demonstrators protesting against the construction of a high-speed…
(ANSA) - Demonstrators protesting against plans to build a high-speed rail link through the Italian Alps scuffled with police on Thursday but Premie…
(ANSA) - A tiny island west of Naples is to show the rest of Italy that giving up fossil fuels doesn't mean renouncing modern life and its creature c…
(ANSA) - An Italian actor threw German police into panic on Wednesday night, when he showed up at the European premiere of a Hollywood blockbuster pre…
(ANSA) -Neapolitans have a legendary reputation as the country's worst traffic offenders but a new survey shows that the record is in fact firmly held…
(ANSA) - Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier Gianfranco Fini defended a renewed government drive to crack down on drugs on Wednesday, insisting that…
(ANSA) - Luxury goods fanatics in the United States will soon find a new 'must buy' article in jewelry shops: Italian cashmere sheets.The sheets are a…
(ANSA) - Rome, December 7 - Cigarette sales for 2005 are expected to plunge by 6-7% in the wake of Italy's tough smoking ban which went into effect la…
(ANSA) - Azzurri soccer officials expressed satisfaction Tuesday that Italy is among the eight teams to be seeded for next summer's World Cup in Germ…
(ANSA) - Italians are the biggest opponents of torture, even as a method of extracting information from terrorists, according to an international sur…
(ANSA) - An elementary school teacher has come under fire from several of her students' parents for telling her third grade class that Santa Claus doe…