Back surgery removes Murray from limelight

Bill Scott
TOKYO - Andy Murray was the obvious missing link at the Japan Open, with the 2011 winner and poster boy for this year's edition making a recovery in London from back surgery performed a week prior to the start in Asia last month.
 
Murray is expected to miss the remainder of the ATP season, but will somehow have timed his rehabilitation after the minor surgery to deal with chronic back pain in time to front up for a multi-million-dollar exhibition payday in oil-rich Abu Dhabi starting the day after Christmas. 
Sport
16 Oct 2013

Romans dare to dream with Rudi Garcia

COLIN O'BRIEN
Rome - The opposition changes, but the wins keep coming for Roma in Serie A. The Giallorossi just can't stop scoring, and currently sit top of the league thanks to a blistering early start the likes of which has never been seen before at the Olimpico. 
 
Among those wins was an emphatic derby performance against local rivals Lazio, dispelling the ghosts which had lingered since May's depressing defeat to the Aquile in the historic all-Roman Coppa Italia final. 
 
Sport
16 Oct 2013

Job cuts "vendetta" revealed at FAO

JAN FILIPOWICZ

ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organisation's ambitious CIO division director, Florentin Albu, has turned abolition of posts at the UN agency into a “personal vendetta,” FAO sources charge.

U.N., Embassy Row, World
15 Oct 2013
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Chaos in Albano amid Priebke funeral

ANDREW GARGANO

ROME - Chaos struck the town of Albano on Tuesday as demonstrators gathered to protest the controversial funeral of former Nazi officer Erich Priebke.

Rome, Italy
15 Oct 2013

IAG calls Alitalia rescue plans "illegal" protectionism

INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME - The International Airlines Group (IAG) has called Alitalia's bankruptcy rescue plans "illegal" and "protectionist" and has asked the European Commission to block the bailout.
 
Business, Italy
15 Oct 2013

FAO staff stage "warning strike"

INSIDER NEWSDESK

 ROME -- FAO staff carried out a short warning strike Tuesday to protest job cuts and management violating the UN agency's job security agreements, FAO sources said.

 Staff at the troubled Rome based Food and Agriculture Organisation had planned industrial action last week to coincide with the agency's World Food Week jamboree but FAO Director General José Graziano told staff representative bodies he would consider industrial action then a personal affront.

U.N.
15 Oct 2013
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Letta: "Serbia should become 29th star of EU"

INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta has said that "Serbia should become the 29th star of the EU," following a summit between the two countries in Ancona on Tuesday. The summit was the third meeting held between a large number of officials from each of the two countries.
 
Embassy Row, World, Italy
15 Oct 2013
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La Bohème: an opera which suits Rome

MIRA BUDAFOKI
ROME - Four acts of the bohemian and artistic love story were set in Paris, so how could this opera suit Rome? Because it's every inch an Italian composer's masterpiece. Giacomo Puccini's famous opera at the Teatro Margherita was a nice start to the beginning of the new season. It was a giant explosion in the tiny jewelry box of Rome.
 
Culture, Rome
15 Oct 2013

The European Commission’s Blind Eye

ANDREW GARGANO
ROME - The decision of the European Commission to abstain from holding infringement proceedings against Italy for its controversial Gelmini Law has elicited much outrage from the public.
 
Comment, Culture, Embassy Row, World, Italy
15 Oct 2013
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