Rugby: Japan leave for Italy in preparation for World Cup
New Zealand Herald: TOKYO – The Japanese rugby team have left the country, heading for Italy and their final preparations for the rugby World Cup […]
Italian mayor pays residents to fight flab
Daily Mail: A mayor in Italy has promised to pay his overweight residents to lose weight. Men living in the north-western Italian town of Varallo […]
Italian PM pushes dialogue to help Hamas ‘develop politically’
New Zealand Herald: ITALY - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi says there was a need for dialogue with Hamas to help the Palestinian Islamist group […]
Italy probe unearths huge Iraq arms deal
Yahoo News: AP – In a hidden corner of Rome's busy Fiumicino Airport, police dug quietly through a traveler's checked baggage, looking for smuggled drugs. […]
Italian Pride Is Revived in a Tiny Fiat
New York Times: Fiat has introduced an updated version of the 500, or Cinquecento, the chubby little car that symbolized Italy’s postwar economic miracle. … […]
Sluggish Italy trims growth forecast
Financial Times: Growth in Italy, Europe’s slowest growing economy, has unexpectedly slowed even further, according to provisional figures released by the National Statistics Institute … […]
Tourists fined 700 for reserving spot on beach with towels
Daily Mail: Holidaymakers in Italy are being fined up to £700 for trying to reserve a place on the beach with their towels … leggi […]
Uffizi expansion goes ahead despite Florentine opposition
The Independent: The plan to add a huge new modernist portico to Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, the most controversial building project of recent times in Italy, […]
Pavarotti's wife says tenor is improving
Yahoo News: AP – Luciano Pavarotti was doing better Friday after he was admitted to a hospital in northern Italy with a fever and was […]
Italy fuels Europe growth fears
BBC: Italy’s economy grew just 0.1% in the past quarter, placing a question mark over Europe’s growth outlook. … leggi tutto (read all)