Police and animal rescue squads are combing the countryside around this southern Italian city in the latest in a 15-year-long string of panther alerts…
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Tue, 11/04/2008 - 04:54
Italy is gearing up for Tuesday's presidential elections in the United States almost as if it was a national election here complete with all-night TV…
Tue, 11/04/2008 - 04:45
A United Nations human rights group arrived in Italy on Monday for a two-week fact-finding mission into the country's detention policies.The UN's Work…
Tue, 11/04/2008 - 04:42
University professors and students dragged out four donkeys under the Leaning Tower of Pisa on Monday in protest over proposed government cuts in the…
Tue, 11/04/2008 - 04:37
Leading Muslim scholars arrived in Rome on Monday ahead of groundbreaking talks with top Catholic officials.Nearly 60 delegates will gather in the Vat…
Tue, 11/04/2008 - 04:33
AS Roma is bidding to help stop its Serie A slide with a morale-boosting win in the Champions League against Chelsea on Tuesday.Coach Luciano Spallett…
Tue, 11/04/2008 - 04:27
One day after Ferrari won the Formula 1 constructors' championship but lost the drivers' title in the last 18 seconds of the final Grand Prix of the s…
Mon, 11/03/2008 - 09:02
Everything is ready for the annual premier presentation of Vino Novello which for the first time will take place at the Verona trade fair grounds.For…
Mon, 11/03/2008 - 08:51
One of the most colourful figures to sit in the boardrooms of Italian soccer, ex-Perugia chairman Luciano Gaucci, appears set to return to the country…
Mon, 11/03/2008 - 06:18
Vatican clerics have started clocking in for work for the first time since the 1960s.The tiny state on the Tiber has issued new cards to all employees…
Mon, 11/03/2008 - 06:12
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini on Monday defended President Giorgio Napolitano from a German newspaper's criticism of his speech commemorati…
Mon, 11/03/2008 - 06:07
Italy is in a ''tecnical recession'' which will result in zero growth in 2008, the European Commission said Monday.Stagnation will continue through 20…
Mon, 11/03/2008 - 05:12
AC Milan's ''Italian heart'' has helped it rally from a bad start to top Serie A for the first time in four years, coach Carlo Ancelotti said Monday.'…
Thu, 10/30/2008 - 04:58
Italian scientists have made a CAT scanner that tracks down a patient's body instead of forcing them into a claustrophobic tube.The makers say the yok…
Thu, 10/30/2008 - 04:50
Measures to support Italian banks during the current international credit squeeze may be adopted by the government at a cabinet meeting on Friday, sou…
Thu, 10/30/2008 - 04:42
University and high school students continued to protest across Italy on Wednesday after parliament gave a definitive green light to controversial ref…
Thu, 10/30/2008 - 04:35
Compagnia Aerea Italiana (CAI) will present its formal bid for Alitalia's flight operations on Friday, sources at the Italian investor group have conf…
Thu, 10/30/2008 - 04:31
A judge who handed out a 30-year prison sentence to Ivory Coast national Rudy Guede for his part in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher sai…
Thu, 10/30/2008 - 04:26
A deaf-mute woman accused of talking on her mobile phone while at the wheel of her car won an appeal against the traffic violation charge on Wednesday…
Thu, 10/30/2008 - 04:19
Diego Maradona will be a success as Argentina manager because he was ''the real coach'' during his glory years as a player at Napoli, the former chair…