Articles by ITALY
(ANSA) - The common belief that Michelangelo designed the uniform of the Swiss Guard is a myth, according to the first insider's history of the colour…
(ANSA) - His Manchester United side may not be having the best of spells, but Sir Alex Ferguson remains one of soccer's all-time most successful manag…
(ANSA) - Italian banks need to adapt quickly to the European security standards and substitute the old credit cards with new microchip cards in order…
(ANSA) - Sufficient common ground exists between the Italian government coalition and the opposition for an accord for the gradual withdrawal of Ita…
The eight and ninth of November were particularly interesting days in Italy. News programs where particularly short and dry, newsstands where missing…
(ANSA) - An exhibition showing for the first time Leonardo Da Vinci's third and little-known Virgin of the Rocks is the smash hit of Italy's autumn cu…
(ANSA) -Italy's Fiat and America's Ford Motor Company have signed an agreement to develop a common platform which will allow each company to produce a…
"By the time you read this the vendemmia will be over, the grapes pressed and bottled and the wine starting to ferment. We have just the one huge mons…
(ANSA) - Italian drug dealers have added coffins to the range of unusual containers for their wares.A major police operation on Monday busted a Mafi…
(ANSA) - Italian men are no longer mamma's boys and feel they are forced to pay lip service to family affection, according to the latest survey. One…
A few days ago we reported on a story that had been causing controversy in Italy. Italy's best selling weekly, the catholic-oriented Famiglia Christia…
(ANSA) - The emotional effect on visitors of Michelangelo's stunning David statue is to be gauged in a year-long study in Florence.Florentine psychiat…
(ANSA) - Rome, November 4 - Italian researchers have made a key breakthrough in the study of the causes of asthma in children. Rome researchers have f…
(ANSA) - Italian designer Roberto Cavalli has given supermodel Kate Moss her first job on her comeback after a cocaine scandal. Cavalli has chosen Mos…
(ANSA) - Italians are healthier than ever, smoking less and shunning fast food in favour of traditional balanced lunches, a study said Friday. But th…
(ANSA) - An Italian woman in her 80s has pulled a knife on bank staff for the second time in a week.The woman had chased a bank manager round the b…
(ANSA) - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi stressed in an interview published on Thursday that he continues to be a potential target for terrorist sui…
(ANSA) - Italy's best-selling weekly, the Catholic-oriented Famiglia Cristiana, is being looked at in a new light this week after it published its fir…
(ANSA) - A slain Calabrian politician urged his region's youth to help fight the Mafia shortly before he was killed, it emerged on Thursday.…
(ANSA) - As millions of Italians marked All Souls Day on Wednesday, a new initiative emerged which could make the customary November 2 trips to the…