MENFI -- Sicilian wines used to be considered too syrupy or too strong. But in the 1980s excellent Chardonnay was produced in Sicily, then quality wines were made from Nero d’Avola and other indigenous grapes which match perfectly the rich and varied Sicilian food.
Insider reporters
ROME-- British actor Jeremy Irons took a swipe at the United Nations’ often sluggish bureaucracy during his inauguration as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Monday, quipping also that most people attending the famine-fighting agency's latest jamboree were at risk of obesity rather than going hungry.
17 Oct 2011
Insider reporters
ROME-- Scores of outraged staff at the U.N. International Fund for Agricultural Development observed an informal boycott of a convivial summer party on the swank via Appia Antica organised by the agency's flamboyant, fun-loving director general, Kanayo Nwanze, Ifad sources say.
6 Oct 2011
Insider reporters
PERUGIA – An Italian appeal court today cleared American student Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 and ordered the immediate release of the two after four years imprisonment. Bystanders outside the Perugia courthouse shouted “vergogna,vergogna,” (shame, shame), as the sentence was read but cheers rose from among American television network’s crews.
3 Oct 2011
Anonymous
By ALYX BARKER
ROME -- David Petrie is "reasonably optimistic" following his hearing on Friday, and hopes that defamatory statements made against him during his campaign for equal treatment of national and foreign lecturers in Italy will finally be withdrawn.
The 13 year long saga has been littered with dubious delays including missing evidence taken from the European Parliament’s archives.
3 Oct 2011
Shelly Kittleson
ROME -- ‘’The regime has shown itself to be the real criminal,’’ was the comment Khalil Al Marzooq, secretary of Bahrain’s main Shia opposition party Al Wefaq, made in Rome while engaged in what he called 'outreach'. Before all the party's 18 members of the 40-member lower house - the sole elected body in the country - resigned in late February to protest the crackdown, he had also been first deputy speaker of the National Assembly.
1 Oct 2011
Anonymous
By ALYX BARKER
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI’s four-day visit to Germany was marred by a series of vociferous protests against what demonstrators denounced as the Roman Catholic Church’s rigid policies on homosexuality, contraception, divorce and the role of women within the church.
27 Sep 2011
Philip Willan
ROME —Britain is accused of interfering in Italy’s internal affairs for more than half a century in support of its strategic interests in the Mediterranean, according to a new book presented yesterday (Thursday). “The English Coup”, by authors Mario Cereghino and Giovanni Fasanella, is based in large part on British diplomatic documents from the National Archive at Kew and claims that British interference in their country during the last century amounted to “the longest coup in history”.
23 Sep 2011
Desmond O'Grady
ROME -- Like Robert Hughes I came from Sydney to Rome in the 1950s, was entranced by the city and felt an urge to write about it. So much of its past is present in its architectural remains and more remains are constantly being unearthed, there is an abundance of tales about its outlandish emperors, outrageous popes and the rivalries between its great artists such as Borromini and Bernini (“there is no 20th century artist” Hughes writes of Bernini,”who does not look rather small beside him”). Hughes discovered, on his first visit to Rome as a 20 year old in 1959, that “it resi
4 Sep 2011