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38 dead in coach crash near Naples
Healing retreat on Pantelleria Island
My Roman dreams on wheels
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.
Colombian rebels to release kidnapped American soldier
Facebook & Amazon outwit Italian taxman
Maserati prepares to launch new models
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.
Zebra-donkey born in Florence
ROME – A rare mix between a zebra and a donkey has been born in an animal reserve in Florence, owners have confirmed.
President of the Community of Sant’Egidio makes historic trip
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.
Police seize Verga manuscripts
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.
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Disappeared RAF crew receive official burial
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.
Frustrated students set fire to school
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.
Pirelli head guilty of industrial espionage
Wärtsilä gets support for marine engine and power plant research
Eerie, Elegant and Entertaining: "Signatures in Stone"
Life is Beautiful writer dies
Ligresti family arrested in Fonsai probe
Brazil prepares for landmark Pope visit
Top official resigns over "Kazakhgate"
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.
Forum pedestrianisation plans unveiled
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.
Italian police raid Jamaican sprinters' suites
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.
Berlusconi holiday with Kazakh president?
ROME – Media magnate Silvio Berlusconi has denied reports that he met with the Kazakh leader Nursultan Nazarbayev as Italy came under fire over its deportation of the family of a Kazakh dissident.
Brescia court 'disappears' lettori award
ROME – Italy has come under yet more criticism over its controversial Gelmini law following the "extinguishing" of a judicial award made to three lecturers in reimbursement of lost wages.
UK "may exclude" Italy Erasmus students
ROME -- Britain could consider suspending the Erasmus scheme for Italy in retaliation for discrimination against UK lecturers, Minister for Europe David Lidington said Friday.