ROME -- The Court of Cassation confirmed Thursday Silvio Berlusconi's tax fraud conviction and a 4 year prison term but ordered a new trial to decide how long he will be banned from public office.
ROME – Here's my recipe: buy a cheap ticket to Italy, wrap up your day-dreaming, take your four wheels (I mean your wheelchair, not your Ferrari), cram in ambitions, surround with inspiring people.
ROME --Economic Development Minister Flavio Zanonato has visited the Maserati plant in Grugliasco where the new Quattroporte and Maserati Ghibli, to be launched this August, are produced.
ROME – A rare mix between a zebra and a donkey has been born in an animal reserve in Florence, owners have confirmed.
ROME – The president of the Community of Sant’Egidio, a Catholic movement started in Rome in 1968, has embarked upon a landmark trip to the Great Lakes region of Africa.
ROME – Police have seized 36 manuscripts and thousands of letters, drawings and notes made by Giovanni Verga in an operation conducted by the Cultural Heritage Protection Department.
ROME – The crew of an RAF bomber discovered nearly 70 years after it was shot down by anti-aircraft gunfire have been buried at an official ceremony in Italy.
ROME -- Four student dunces from the Liceo Socrate set fire to their school to avenge the fact that their being held back a year, police have confirmed.
ROME -- The Interior Minister's Private Secretary Giuseppe Procaccini has anounced his resignation over the controversial deportation of the wife and child of a prominent Kazakh dissident.
ROME – As the contentious restoration works in the area surrounding the Colosseum proceed, the city is bracing itself for a new and hotly-debated traffic scheme.
ROME – Italian police seized undisclosed substances from suites in which Jamaican sprinters Sherone Simpson and Asafa Powell were staying after testing positive for banned stimulants.
