Coordinating the efforts of the Group of Eight and the Group of 20 to combat the global recession was at the center of talks here on Thursday between…
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Fri, 02/20/2009 - 04:44
Actor and director Oreste Lionello, who lent his distinctive voice to dub Woody Allen in Italian, has died after a long illness. He was 81.Aside from…
Fri, 02/20/2009 - 04:29
Researchers studying Mount Etna in Sicily have discovered that Europe's most active volcano 'breathes', inflating and deflating in cycles.A study of E…
Fri, 02/20/2009 - 04:21
Italy rugby coach Nick Mallet has called Overmach Parma centre Gilberto Pavan into the squad for Italy's third Six Nations match against Scotland at M…
Fri, 02/20/2009 - 04:15
Serie A leaders Inter Milan are aiming to take advantage of tough matches for rivals Juventus and AC Milan to stretch their already large lead at Bolo…
Thu, 02/19/2009 - 04:10
State broadcaster RAI breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday after the first night of the Sanremo songfest reversed a chronic downward trend in viewing f…
Thu, 02/19/2009 - 04:05
Immigrants rioted at an expulsion centre on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa Tuesday, setting fire to parts of the facility.Police said the mi…
Thu, 02/19/2009 - 03:57
Outgoing opposition leader Walter Veltroni on Wednesday apologised for having failed as leader of the Democratic Party he helped to create, urging mem…
Thu, 02/19/2009 - 03:44
A local woman driver who hit a child and then drove off, only to return later to seek compensation from the child's parents for damages sustained to h…
Thu, 02/19/2009 - 03:33
Soccer fever returns to the Vatican Thursday as the third annual Clericus Cup kicks off between priests and trainee clergymen.The inaugural match is e…
Thu, 02/19/2009 - 03:22
AC Milan forward Kaka is hoping David Beckham will be released by the LA Galaxy so he can end his career in Milan.''I hope Milan can reach a deal with…
Wed, 02/18/2009 - 03:49
Chianti Classico is the world's most cloned wine, the Chianti Classico Consortium said Tuesday, announcing the creation of a special task force to…
Wed, 02/18/2009 - 03:45
Italy will push to have the US government fulfill a contract to buy presidential helicopters from an Italian-controlled company, Foreign Minister F…
Wed, 02/18/2009 - 03:41
A Ligurian wine maker is preparing to drop 6,200 bottles of spumante into the sea off the coast of Portofino where they will mature on the ocean fl…
Wed, 02/18/2009 - 03:37
Alessandro Nesta's season ended Tuesday after an operation to resolve his chronic back problems, AC Milan said Monday. Nesta, 32, who this year h…
Wed, 02/18/2009 - 03:32
A 13-year-old schoolboy stabbed his music teacher with a kitchen knife, leaving the blade stuck in the teacher's back as he made his escape. The…
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 10:59
There is not a lot of information about the level of accessibility in Italian art cities so we are happy to share with you the account of a traveller…
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 03:35
The curtain is about to go up on Italy's biggest musical event of the year, the Sanremo songfest, amid furious polemics from gay rights groups and…
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 03:29
Italians abandoned some 14,000 dogs on roads and motorways last summer as they set off on holiday, animal rights group AIDAA said Monday. AIDAA…
Tue, 02/17/2009 - 03:25
Italian tourists more than made up for a decline in foreign guests in hotels over the Christmas period but operators appear pessimistic about the f…