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(ANSA) - American actor Bruce Willis has agreed to head the jury at this year's Miss Italy beauty pageant.
The 50-year-old 'Die Hard' star will be…
(ANSA) - Bank of Italy Governor Antonio Fazio showed no sign on Tuesday of giving in to mounting pressure to resign over a bank takeover scandal. Fa…
(ANSA) - A controversial Muslim preacher once accused of defending Osama bin Laden has been expelled from Italy, the Italian Interior Ministry said on…
(ANSA) - The Tuscan home of Giovanni Boccaccio, the 14th-century Italian poet who wrote the famously ribald Decameron stories, is to undergo long-awai…
(ANSA) - Style guru Giorgio Armani on Sunday night showed off his singing skills at a chic disco on this famed island in the Bay of Naples. After la…
(ANSA) - Fiat expects to enter into a new strategic alliance before the end of the year, Fiat Group CEO Sergio Marchionne announced here on Tuesday. S…
(ANSA) - As Ferrari cars continue to limp unhappily around the world's Formula 1 tracks, Italians appear to be losing interest in the sport they have…
(ANSA) - Venice could suffer the same fate as New Orleans, Veneto Governor Giancarlo Galan warned on Monday. Galan said a new centre-left government…
(ANSA) - The managing director of Italy's rail company Trenitalia has been summoned to the transport ministry to explain a case in which lice were fou…
Alitalia flight attendants are striking for 48 hours starting at just after 12 midnight of Tuesday. The strike is going ahead despite it being banned…
(ANSA) - The Italian government is to take action to force Bank of Italy Governor Antonio Fazio out of office after he failed to resign over allegatio…
(ANSA) - Sicilian activist priest Ennio Pintacuda died on Sunday morning aged 72.Pintacuda, a Jesuit theologian and sociologist, urged Catholics to ta…
(ANSA) - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has an exit strategy ready if he loses next year's general election. "If I'm defeated I'll sail off to Tah…
(ANSA) - Italy has opened a probe after a gay blood donor was turned away from a Milan hospital. Health Minister Francesco Storace called the case "u…
(ANSA) - Italian archaeologists have found a new Etruscan necropolis at this Tuscan hilltown, one of the major centres of the pre-Roman civilisation.…
Premier Silvio Berlusconi is not looking to squabble with his UDC centrist allies despite their repeated criticism of his policies and hints that the…
(ANSA) - Pope Benedict XVI voiced his "deep sorrow" on Thursday over the deaths of over 900 Shia Muslim Iraqis in a panic-stricken stampede in Baghdad…
(ANSA) - Organisers of the 2005 Miss Italia beauty pageant have decided to have contestants wear bikinis in the finals as part of a bid to bring the…
(ANSA) - The 62nd edition of what promises to be the most star-studded Venice Film Festival ever got underway on Wednesday evening. George Clooney, R…
(ANSA) - There is no evidence that the Bank of Italy discriminated against two foreign banks involved in separate takeover bids of Italian banks, a Eu…