Articles by ITALY

(ANSA) - A 105-year-old American woman paraglided here in the western Italian Alps for close to a half an hour and was sorry when her experience ende…
(ANSA) - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was fined on the island of Capri for riding hisjet ski too close to shore and endangering bathers.The…
(ANSA) - Consumer groups organising a new 'strike' against high prices have decided to extend their protest to the fuel pump where the cost gasoline…
(ANSA) - One person was killed and five people injured, one critically, in a motorway accident caused by a prank, placing an engine block in the middl…
The Palio of Siena is fast approaching and Stefano Rossini applies his sharp analysis of this other Italian institution.Il 16 agosto di ogni anno, gli…
(ANSA) - The publication of new transcripts of wiretaps made during probes on takeover bids for two Italian banks fuelled a storm over Bank of I…
(ANSA) - A former Nazi officer sentenced to life for taking part in Italy's world War War II atrocity has not been allowed to go on holiday, a Rome mi…
(ANSA) - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi hailed positive economic growth figures on Thursday, saying they showed the country was pulling out of re…
A judge in the port city of Genoa has blocked the Italian soccer federation's preparations for the 2005-2006 season in a row over Genoa's relegation t…
(ANSA) - Rome prosecutors representing British police in extradition proceedings against a key suspect in the failed July 21 London bombings will prob…
(ANSA) - An Australian tourist got away with a scolding from Venice police on Wednesday after heabandoned a sluggish water bus and plunged into the G…
(ANSA) - A leading art historian has called for a 16th-century masterpiece to be locked up safely after another renowned Florentine sculpture was dam…
(ANSA) - Italians no longer appear to cultivate big dreams and have downsized their wishes to obtaining material goods or fame, according to a new stu…
(ANSA) - Once again the Feast of Saint Lawrence, also known as the Night of the Shooting Stars, will be toasted with wine throughout Italy in the hop…
(ANSA) - Premier Silvio Berlusconi denied on Tuesday that his Mediaset group was interested in buying Italy's biggest daily, hinting that the rumours…
(ANSA) - Enraged fans of Genoa soccer club rampaged through the city on Monday night after the Italian soccer federation confirmed a decision to rel…
(ANSA) - A local train carrying 50 passengers derailed outside Milan on Monday, leaving a fewpeople with cuts and bruises but no serious injuries.Th…
(ANSA) - Arsonists continue to strike in the Italian capital and last night set fire to five automobiles and three mopeds.Police have set up special…
(ANSA) - An Ethiopian arrested in Rome in connection with the failed bomb attacks in London last month has said he will answer any questions British…
(ANSA) - Investigations into the crash of a Tunisian-operated passenger plane in the sea off Sicily on Saturday are focusing on possible problems in t…