United States president-elect Barack Obama won the election on a platform of ''change'' which may now be extended to the United Nations, according to…
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Tue, 11/11/2008 - 03:48
A divorce case involving a 91-year-old Ischia hotelier has made headlines here with his cast-off wife claiming he has a lover.The husband filed a suit…
Tue, 11/11/2008 - 03:38
Right-wing Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno on Monday condemned the holocaust as ''absolute evil'' after recently stirring polemics with what critics claime…
Tue, 11/11/2008 - 03:32
The European Commission is expected to give its green light on Wednesday to a plan by Italian investors to create a new Italian carrier using the flig…
Tue, 11/11/2008 - 03:17
Luciano Moggi is through with soccer, the former powerful general manager of Juventus told a Rome court on Monday.''Soccer is a world that doesn't con…
Mon, 11/10/2008 - 10:20
Two Italian nuns kidnapped from a Kenyan border village by a suspected Somali gang have been identified as Caterina Giraudo and Maria Teresa Oliviero…
Mon, 11/10/2008 - 10:15
The Ryanair plane that made an emergency landing at Ciampino Monday was hit by a large flock of starlings, Italy's flight safety agency ANSV said.ASNV…
Mon, 11/10/2008 - 06:24
South African singer Miriam Makeba died of a heart attack near Naples Sunday night after an anti-racist and anti-Camorra concert in support of Gomorra…
Mon, 11/10/2008 - 06:14
Share prices in Milan and around Europe rose by some 3% after Asian bourses hailed a $600-billion stimulus package in China.Milan came up 2.9% off the…
Mon, 11/10/2008 - 06:10
Alessandro Del Piero's freekick wizardry is now so intimidating it brings a pre-kick hush to stadiums like Brazil legend Zico did in the 1980s, Juvent…
Sun, 11/09/2008 - 03:00
Italy and China on Friday signed a declaration of intent to boost scientific and technological cooperation between the two countries.The accord calls…
Sat, 11/08/2008 - 03:12
Italy needs to develop its risk capital market in order to channel resources to create new enterprises, according to the American ambassador to Rome,…
Sat, 11/08/2008 - 03:10
Pope Benedict XVI on Friday urged doctors to develop more accurate methods of determining brain death in vital organ donors.Speaking to a conference o…
Sat, 11/08/2008 - 03:08
Protests by university students against proposed government reforms in the education sector turned violent in Rome on Friday as a third week of sit-in…
Sat, 11/08/2008 - 03:06
The chairman of the Italian Automobile Club, Enrico Gelpi, was unanimously elected on Friday to fill a vacant seat on the World Motor Sport Council of…
Sat, 11/08/2008 - 03:04
Australian rugby coach Robbie Deans praised Italy's traditional forward strength ahead of Saturday's test match in Padua.Deans, who is fielding a powe…
Sat, 11/08/2008 - 03:02
Fiorentina's Romania striker Adrian Mutu will be out for two weeks with a thigh-muscle injury, the Florence club said Friday.Mutu picked up the knock…
Sat, 11/08/2008 - 03:00
The 2008 Ferrari Challenge series winds up at the weekend at the at the Tuscan Mugello circuit WITH the world finals for the three regional championsh…
Fri, 11/07/2008 - 03:59
The golden age of Dutch art and its illustrious stars are the focus of a stunning new exhibition opening in Rome.The Museo del Corso will host 55 mast…
Fri, 11/07/2008 - 03:54
On the eve of the flu season Italy has an insufficient stockpile of vaccine doses, Health Undersecretary Ferruccio Fazio warned on Thursday.''We curre…