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Mr. Mangiarotti, of Italy, won more Olympic medals and world championships than any fencer in the history of the sport, starting with the Berlin Games in 1936.

MILAN, May 25 (Reuters) - Italian loss-making publisher RCS MediaGroup picked Pietro Scott Jovane, the head of Microsoft Italy, to become its chief executive and lead the business turnaround, the...

Belgian foreign minister Didier Reynolds said Europe must prepare for Greece to leave the euro to prevent the crisis engulfing other countries such as Spain, Italy and Portugal.

Spain’s reign at the top of world football started four years ago at the European Championship, and some believe the run of good fortune can be traced back to one particular shootout victory over Italy.

Figures show depositors have also taken flight from banks in Belgium, France and Italy

Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has expressed his faith in controversial Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli. The veteran tactician has dropped the 21-year-old on several occasions.

Ippazio Stefano claims he carries the revolver after receiving a number of death threats during recent elections in Italy.

UNITED NATIONS - With India and Italy locked in a diplomatic dispute over the detention by Indian authorities of two Italian marines, Italy’s Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has urged New Delhi to come to a “quick” settlement of the issue to offset negative effects on the global anti-piracy efforts.  Speaking to reporters in New York on Wednesday, Terzi said UN ...

Second-seeded Francesca Schiavone of Italy and the USA's Sloane Stephens set up a semifinal clash with victories Thursday in Strasbourg.

Smart phones and tablet computers - once the latest must-have devices for technology geeks - are becoming increasingly more popular with the mainstream. The Android platform is now one of the most popular platforms with over 300 million Android devices in use since February and 700 000 devices being activated with each passing day. One of its main attractions is the open source software that al...

IN Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had murder and bloodshed, but produced Michelangelo, da Vinci, and the Renaissance.

Enzo Ferrari once claimed that the Mille Miglia was "the most beautiful race in the world."

TWO new strong aftershocks have rattled northeast Italy, sending people outdoors and further damaging buildings.

A 25-year-old man arrested in Italy is charged with murdering a crane driver found in a burning car near Southampton.

After serving 4 years in a U.S. facility, the former real estate developer is going back to his native Italy

Georg Grodski, head of credit at Legal and General, explains why foreign investors are pulling out of Italy.

Manchester City have distanced themselves from reports in Italy of a swap deal involving Carlos Tevez or Mario Balotelli and AC Milan defender Thiago Silva.

The improved results in emerging markets, as well as in Germany and Britain, helped offset declines in Italy and Spain.

The question for European leaders gathering in Brussels Wednesday is whether Germany will soften its resistance to the bolder measures being pushed by France and Italy.

ROME (AP) -- The Italian government declared Tuesday a state of emergency for the quake-struck region of northern Italy, shortly after Premier Mario Monti promised swift help for stricken businesses, especially small-scale farms and factories....

Prime Minister Mario Monti said Tuesday the Italian government would reimburse this year up to 30 billion euros ($38 billion) it owes to businesses in order to provide a boost to the struggling economy.

The Turin giants will purchase the remaining 50 percent of the attacker's rights from Parma, before cashing in on the Italy international this summer to free up funds

Italy coach says Mario Balotelli must be remembered for "what he does on pitch".

A 1,400-year-old olive tree in Italy will be dedicated to American first lady Michelle Obama for her efforts to promote healthy eating.

ITALY WAS yesterday trying to come to terms with a dramatic and tragic weekend marked by a serious earthquake in the Emilia Romagna region and by a bomb blast outside a school in the port of Brindisi.

In the last five hundred years, there have been around two hundred recorded tsunamis in the Mediterranean area. According to the University of Bologna, on average there have been 15 tsunamis in Italy every 100 years for the last 4 centuries. UNESCO considers that there is a high risk of loss of life and economic disaster in the region.

Officials said damage from Sunday’s earthquake in the Emilia-Romagna region would be significant financially and culturally.

Soccer:The FAI have picked up 400 more tickets for Ireland’s matches against Spain and Italy and are hopeful of getting more, the association’s chief executive John Delaney has said.

On Sunday, Northern Italy was rocked by a magnitude-6.0 earthquake. In the process, many cheese factories in the region suffered damage—and it is estimated that over 300,000 wheels of cheese, thought to be worth at least $320 million, have been destroyed. More »

Earthquake in northern Italy damages medieval churches and castles.

Northern Italy was shaken by a new earthquake Monday morning, a day after a magnitude-6.0 quake killed at least seven people.

Police in northern Italy say a father has thrown his two young children to their deaths from a sixth floor apartment balcony before jumping to his death.

A Franciscan tenor has become the first ever friar to sign a major recording contract, after music executives heard him sing in his native Italy.

Shadow chancellor's attack comes after PM says contingency plans have to be made for Greece leaving the euroEd Balls has accused David Cameron of exacerbating the eurozone crisis by "posturing" over Greece and warned that the G8 summit's failure to come up with a clear plan will prove "absolutely catastrophic for Britain, Europe and the world".The shadow chancellor's attack came after the prime...

A strong earthquake in northern Italy killed at least six people, injured dozens and damaged historic buildings including a famed mediaeval castle early on Sunday, waking terrified citizens and sending thousands running into the streets.

A strong earthquake in northern Italy killed at least six people, injured dozens and damaged historic buildings including a famed mediaeval castle early on Sunday, waking terrified citizens and sending thousands running into the streets.

An earthquake struck the northern Italian region of Emilia Romagna on Sunday, killing five people, wounding dozens and damaging historic buildings as well as warehouses and factories.

A POWERFUL earthquake shook Italy's industrial and densely populated northeast on Sunday, killing at least six people.

[Video Link.] A weekend of fear and mourning in Italy. Early this Sunday morning, an earthquake struck near Bologna: at least six killed (ceramic workers, and a hundred year old person), and big material damage in the region. The US Geological Survey heard the tremor: a magnitude-6.0 quake struck at 4:04 a.m. Sunday between Modena [...]

Prosecutors questioned several people in connection to a bombing outside a school in southern Italy that killed a 16-year-old girl and has raised public fears that the country could again fall victim to extremist violence of past decades.

About 3,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in northeast Italy's Emilia Romagna region, where a magnitude 6.0 quake struck early Sunday killing at least six, civil defence services said.

SANT' AGOSTINO, Italy (Reuters) - A strong earthquake killed four people, injured dozens and damaged churches, towers and a mediaeval castle early on Sunday, waking terrified citizens across northern Italy and sending thousands running into the streets.

The 6.0-magnitude quake, one of the strongest to shake northern Italy, toppled buildings and sent residents running into the streets. It struck at just after 4am local time and its epicentre 21.75 miles north-northwest of Bologna

At least three people dead and some buildings damaged after 6.0-magnitude quake hits northern Italy

At least one person killed and reports of "structural collapses" following 5.9-magnitude quake near city of Bologna.

One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least three people, toppled some buildings and sent residents running into the streets, emergency services and news reports said.

Caroline Hendrie takes a cruise back in time to some of the gems of ancient and more modern history. From Ancient Rome to the Crusades, Italy to Croatia, it really is all in a day's work.

At the end of a more then two-hour-long dinner at Camp David Friday night, President Obama ordered a cake for Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, whose birthday is Sunday. The light moment capped off a serious evening of discussions about Iran, Syria and North Korea. A source familiar with the dessert order told a pool reporter that it was a chocolate cake.  (Official White House photo by ...

The two Italian sailors were today denied bail by a Kerala court on the ground that their release might affect the progress of the case, set to enter the trial stage.

A 'MAFIA' bomb attack at a school in southern Italy has left a girl dead and injured seven others

sciencehabit writes "A project to drill deep into the heart of a 'supervolcano' in southern Italy has finally received the green light, despite claims that the drilling would put the population of Naples at risk of small earthquakes or an explosion. Yesterday, Italian news agency ANSA quoted project coordinator Giuseppe De Natale of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology as sa...

ROME (Reuters) - A proposal to levy a tax on cats and dogs that stunned Italy on Friday turned out to be all bark and no bite after a wave of popular anger saw it withdrawn on the same day it was made public.

Italy recalled its ambassador from New Delhi today after two Italian members of an anti-piracy unit were charged with the murder of two Indian fishermen in an escalation of an increasingly tense diplomatic dispute.

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BRESCIA, Italy (Reuters) - John Elkann, the media-shy chairman of one of the world's biggest car companies, got behind the wheel and demonstrated his driving skills on Thursday in Italy's legendary...

EAMON DUNPHY says he has “grave reservations” about the Irish team wearing black armbands against Italy in Euro 2012 in memory of those killed in the 1994 Loughinisland attack by the UVF. Dunphy was one of the few footballers to draw attention to the Troubles during play when he wore a black armband while playing for Millwall in 1972 as a protest against Bloody Sunday.

Economically, the future of the West now depends on the birthplace of the West.When Germany'schancellor, Hannelore Kraft, met France's president, Francois Hollande, in a sunny Berlin earlier this week, they agreed on a compelling strategy to save the Eurozone. With no elections due in any Eurozone country for the next two years, they were able to stretch the austerity timeline for Greece, Spain...

Openings High Low Vintage, which specializes in men's and women's fashions worn from the 1950s through the 1980s, has opened in Pasadena. The shop also carries antique and collectible furniture and is the exclusive Pasadena retailer for Caterina de Medici perfumes from Italy. High Low, owned by Carolyn Gray, is open from 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday at 1031 ...

While Sacha Baron Cohen was off playing with his old bitch, George Clooney played with a new bitch in Malibu. And this one's a ginge! George treated his new Ginger Retriever friend like the lady or gentlemen that she or he is by gently shaking her or his paw during their first date. Okay, I'm using that "she or he" shit, because after doing a thorough examination with my ey...

MASTERCHEF'S tour of Italy has been laid low by a bout of gastroenteritis hitting crew and contestants.

Neutrinos have been in the news again — and not just because of the debate over last year's OPERA experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy, the results of which gave rise to the mistaken claim that the particles could travel faster than

The President spoke by phone today with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti.  The President thanked the Prime Minister for Italy’s many significant contributions to NATO and discussed the continued transition to Afghan-led responsibility for Afghan security, and the sustainment of the Afghan National Security Forces, which will be on the agenda of the upcoming NATO Summit in Chicago.  The Pres...

ECB to help with valuation of bank real estate assets as De Guindos rules out possibility of Argentinean-style "corralito"

ASSISI, Italy (Reuters) - Spanish overall contender Joaquim Rodriguez used his trademark uphill surge to blast away from his rivals and claim Tuesday's 10th stage win and the overall lead in the Giro d'Italia.

FOUR sisters in hiding with their grandmother to avoid flying to Italy with their father have written letters begging him to leave them alone.

WHILE SLAVEN Bilic confirmed yesterday that he will be moving on to coach Lokomotiv Moscow after the European Championships, the Italian Federation has insisted that it will be sticking with Cesare Prandelli for the second half of his four-year deal regardless of how the team get on in Poland next month.

Rating agency says banks are suffering because Italy is back in recession and government austerity measures are cutting demand for loans.

Many fake Italian brands, which are popular in China, do not exist in Italy at all.

De Sanctis has found many fake Italian brands, which are popular in China but do not exist in Italy.

For the espresso obsessed (like me), visiting Italy is like journeying to Mecca: Caffeine-loving crusaders seek answers by crossing time, language and cultural barriers to visit the drink’s motherland. And although it’s not a sip from an Islamic holy well, this potent secular beverage does transport devotees to a higher plane — if only until the jitters wear off. Read full article >> ...

Nokia‘s e-book reading application, Nokia Reading, is coming to France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain and the UK. Backed by major publish…

People of Liberty, centre-right party of Silvio Berlusconi, former prime minister, was biggest loser

Hungary edged the United States in the men’s water polo gold medal match at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but a rematch this summer will come far sooner than the medal rounds. The Americans join the nine-time champions in a loaded group that also includes perennial power Serbia, Romania and Britain. Greece, Italy, Kazakhstan, Spain, Australia and Croatia make up the other group for the 12-team com...

VERONA, Italy (Reuters) - The world's solar power generating capacity will grow by between 200 and 400 percent over the next five years, with Asia and other emerging markets overtaking leadership from Europe, a European industry association said on Monday.

SEE our gallery featuring the F1 cars and their drivers being put through their paces in Mugello

Oetzi the Iceman was discovered 22 years ago in a frozen glacier in Italy. Now traces of blood, the one thing that had eluded investigators, have been identified.

MILAN (Reuters) - Prime Minister Mario Monti has turned to the Internet to ask Italians for tips on how his government could cut public spending as part of efforts to save 4.2 billion euros ($5.5 billion) before the end of the year.

Unemployment in the euro zone rose to a 15-year high of 10.9% in March, driven by lay-offs in Italy and Spain, and economists said worse was to come as the impact of the debt crisis extracts an ever greater toll.

Scientists examine "Otzi's" remains, Italy's prehistoric iceman of the Alps 5,300 years ago, find oldest known traces human blood.

Counterfeiting is a cottage industry in the Campania region, accounting for more than half of the 550,000 to 800,000 fake euro notes pulled from circulation annually by the central bank.

Every several months, a U.N. Panel of Experts issues a report documenting Sudan's extensive violations of U.N. Security Council sanctions in Darfur, and pleads with the council's big powers to use their influence to persuade Khartoum and anti-government rebel groups to comply. And every time, their appeals for backup are largely ignored, especially by China and Russia, which supply Khartoum...

Our resident ICANN expert George Kirikos of Leap.com,  just got hit with a UDRP on a 4 letter .com. Not unlike the UDRP that went against BuyDomains.com this week for Faci.com, another complainant is playing the UDRP lottery by trying to grab the domain name Pupa.com How generic is Pupa? A search under Google for Pupa returns a wikipedia.org entry for the term in the 1st position. Pupa is “A

Pier Paolo Calzolari has lived far from the art world, in the Marche region of Italy, but he has been lured from his studio for a show at two New York galleries, temporarily connected.

Scotland U21s 1 (Mackay-Steven 33) Italy U21s 4 (Florenzi 8, Immobile 55, Insigne 75, Longo 89)

Somalia-born Islam Feruz becomes Scotland's youngest Under-21 international but Italy win 4-1.

The tipple, which is a blend of grapes grown in the Triveneto region of north-east Italy, is said to have 'hints of fresh apricot and lively citrus flavors'.

The families of two Indian fishermen, killed in firing by two Italian marines in February, reach an agreement with the Italian authorities to withdraw their court cases.

Italy said the 18 crew members of an Italian tanker hijacked by pirates off Oman four months ago have been freed.

In Italy and India recently, soccer players have died of cardiac arrest, and a player in England had a very close call. The MLS is reminding teams to be vigilant about safety precautions.A few hours before a wary Landon Donovan ran onto the practice field at the Home Depot Center on Thursday, a funeral took place in Bergamo, Italy.

Venice, Italy continues to slip into the sea

Manchester United faces the prospect of losing another jewel of its academy system to freedom-of-contract departure. Italy U-21 international Davide Petrucci is considering leaving Old Trafford at the end of this season to take up one of a number of lucrative offers to return to his home country.

Das Mekka aller Kreativen und Designbegeisterten hat seine Tore geöffnet. Die Möbelmesse "Salone del Mobile" in Mailand zeigt Originelles, Schräges, Braves, diskutiert Wohn- und Designtrends - und findet trotz oder vielleicht gerade wegen der billigen Angebote bekannter Möbelhausketten großen Zulauf.

BERGAMO, Italy (AP) -- Thousands of fans have filled the streets of Bergamo to pay their final respects to Piermario Morosini, the Livorno midfielder who collapsed and died after suffering cardiac arrest during a soccer match last weekend....

THE Australian dollar is a third of a US cent lower after Italy warned it will face a deeper-than-expected recession.

A Welsh artist has torched one of his works to support the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Italy which has started burning its artworks in protest at budget cuts.

Sales fracture along North-South faultline with Italy, Spain and France suffering most from flagging consumer demand and structural overcapacity

All weekend football in Italy was called off on Saturday following the death of Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini, a player whose own private life had been plagued by a series of tragedies.

Two Nigerians who scammed a South African charity for burned children will appear in an Italian court on fraud charges next week.

All weekend football in Italy has been called off following the death of Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini on Saturday, the Italian Football Federation said. He was 25

Six month layoff all but dashes his hopes of playing for Italy at Euro 2012

EUROPEAN STOCKS recovered yesterday from Tuesday’s panic-selling session, but the rebound may yet prove short-lived if today’s bond auction in Italy fails to go smoothly or Friday’s gross domestic product figure from China disappoints.

Smoldering worries about the debt crisis in Europe have flared up again in global financial markets with Spain and Italy feeling the heat.

LONDON (AP) -- The father of slain British student Meredith Kercher has written a book about the life - and loss - of his daughter in a case that spawned a media frenzy....

HomeAway has acquired Top Rural S.L., which offers vacation rentals in France, Spain, Italy and Portugal. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, except that it was an all-cash transaction. HomeAway will provide more details during its first-quarter earnings report on April 24.

Former Italy football international Giorgio Chinaglia, hailed by New York Cosmos as their greatest player, dies aged 65 at his home in Florida.

CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) - Italian road operator Atlantia said on Friday its plan to sell a stake of up to 49 percent in its Chilean unit Grupo Costanera has attracted strong interest but no...

Stock futures fell early on Thursday, responding to weakness in Europe, where stocks were mostly trading lower. The German DAX was off by 1.2% and France’s CAC 40 dropped 0.9%. Standard & Poor’s said another Greek debt restructuring may be necessary, and the bond market showed weakness in Spain and Italy. Asian stocks also traded [...]

Assets worth more than €1-billion belonging to the late Muammar Gaddafi, his son and his intelligence chief have been seized in Italy in raids.

Theresa May was last night under renewed pressure to deport radical cleric Abu Qatada after Italy was fined just £18,000 for defying the European Court of Human rights in a similar case.

The new iPad arrived in 25 more countries Friday. The first YouTube videos: Denmark: Hungary: More as they arrive. On top of the 10 countries that got the new iPad last week, Apple (AAPL) launched the device Friday in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macau, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, N...

Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes has adapted Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet for the big screen, starring Douglas Booth, and it has just completed filming in Italy.

GIGLIO, Italy (AP) -- Italian search official: 3 more bodies found in wreck of Concordia cruise ship....

The year 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the reunification of Italy. The struggle for unification—or the Risorgimento as it is now remembered—had been long and hard. It began in 1815, after the Congress of Vienna, which followed the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, and it culminated in the declaration of the Kingdom of Italy on March 17, 1861. But even that was not the end: it took anothe...

We now have yet another indication that neutrinos cannot travel faster than the speed of light after all, provided by a neighbor of the OPERA detector that set off the fuss in the first place.

Syrian, rebel forces continue fighting in Deraa; Annan reviews Syria's plans to end the violence; Rome stresses "strongest possible condemnation of violence."

As austerity measures begin to bite in Italy, workers have been on the streets protesting against labour reforms. They are part of a drive by Prime…

artestudioginestrelle shared their blog post on TwitterInternational Artists-in-Residency Assisi, Italy

GERMANS SAID auf Wiedersehento their “Fräulein” as a term to address adult women in 1972. The English language has allowed the Ms alternative for some years, but Italy and Spain retain their señoritasand signorinas. Now France has also accepted the logic that the designation of a woman’s marital status need not be part of her name, a demeaning signal, feminists argue, of her sexual availability...

The foreign ministers of Italy and India agree that the row over the killing of two Indian fishermen must be amicably addressed.

A moth with a taste for Chardonnay leaves, which has infested vineyards across northern Italy, is a new species of leafminer, scientists say.

Neutrinos which appeared to have undermined a basic law of the universe by exceeding the speed of light might have done so even faster than first thought - or might not have done it at all, physicists in Italy said yesterday.

A court decision that found Italy was wrong to intercept and return a boatload of African migrants without first determining whether this would jeopardize their lives is a turning point regarding national responsibilities to migrants, the United Nations refugee agency said today.

"I have difficulty to believe it, because nothing in Italy arrives ahead of time."-Sergio Bertolucci, research director at CERN, on faster-than-light neutrinos You know the story. Last year, the OPERA experiment at CERN announced, to the shock and surprise of practically everyone, that they had observed what appeared to be neutrinos moving faster than the speed of light. How did ...

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Chelsea didn't do much better than Arsenal on its trip to Italy in the Champions League, leaving English clubs in danger of missing the quarterfinals ...

Joint letter to President Van Rompuy and President Barroso suggests priority areas for action.

The only Americans lost in last month's Italian shipwreck were memorialized Saturday, as a loving and united couple.

Italian police said they had seized counterfeit U.S. bonds with a face value of $6 trillion held in Switzerland, in what prosecutors called the largest operation of its kind.

The courthouse in L’Aquila, Italy, on February 15 hosted a highly anticipated hearing in the trial of six seismologists and one government official indicted for manslaughter over their reassurances to the public ahead of a deadly earthquake in 2009 (see  "Scientists face trial over earthquake deaths " and "Scientists on trial: At fault? "). During the hearing, the former head of the Italian De...

What doesn't change about Italy is that it's always changing. In 2012 some long-closed doors are opening again.

(Reuters) - Lawyers for Amanda Knox, who was cleared of murder in October by an Italian court, on Monday asked an appeals court there to overturn her slander conviction as well, a spokesman said.

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Two hostages rescued by U.S. special forces in a daring raid in Somalia have been flown to an American naval installation in Italy, a U.S. defense official said on Thursday

The European Union agrees on Iranian oil embargo The European Union has agreed to a ban on Iranian oil imports as part of increased sanctions over its nuclear development program. EU Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton said, "I want the pressure of these sanctions to result in negotiations." The foreign ministers agreed on a ban on any new contracts for Iranian crude oil or petrole...

The Costa Concordia from above, a rusty dead star, a "fresh" Mars crater, and a sinking moon are among the week's best space pictures.

It's only been a week since the Costa Concordia cruise ship ran aground off the shore of Giglio Island in Italy, but the cashing-in seems to have already begun. The Discovery Channel...

One of the cooks aboard the stricken cruise ship which capsized off the coast of Giglio, Italy says the captain ordered him to make his dinner after the ship had crashed into rocks.

Rescue efforts were called off earlier today after the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck rocks off the coast of Italy and on Friday. Six of the boat’s 4,200 passengers and crewmembers have been reported dead, and another 15 or more are missing. As lifeboats filled up and malfunctioned and rescue efforts had yet to arrive, [...]

At an academic conference in Italy, Philipp Perlmann, a recently widowed linguistics professor, has lost faith in academic work. He contemplates passing off as his own a paper that he’s been translating by a Russian colleague, Vassily Leskov, but Leskov himself arrives unexpectedly, and Perlmann makes panicked plans . . . (Subscription required.)

Normally the build-up to this weekend's Milan derby would be dominating the headlines in Italy with talk about titles, previous results and in-form goalscorers.

Nitratos del Perú firmó una carta de intención con un consorcio formado por la firma española Técnicas Reunidas (TR) y Technip Italy para desarrollar la primera etapa de su proyecto petroquímico en la...

Nitratos del Perú has signed an LOI with a consortium comprised of Spanish firm Técnicas Reunidas (TR) and Technip Italy to carry out the first phase of its petrochemicals project in Peru's Pisco prov...

I’d sent out my usual, cheery New Year greetings to friends and family last week, jauntily describing 2012 as ‘the year of ‘hope and optimism.’ Most recipients responded enthusiastically and echoed the sentiment. But one differed vehemently — my Italian publisher. He asked in his toota-phoota English, “What is there to be optimistic and hopeful about? Italy is sinking.” Bechara! So true. Fortu...

USA! USA! USA! Having exported the Jersey experience to Italy for a spell the gang finds themselves stateside for Season Five Did anyone else besides me forget that watching Jersey Shore is like someone opened the top of your skull and squeezed in a rag soaked with pickle water Lotrimin...

In this grown up version of macaroni and cheese we take a trip to Italy. Sort of.

MODEL'S barnet is a few shades lighter as she attends a film festival in Capri, Italy

MODEL'S barnet is a few shades lighter as she attends a film festival in Capri, Italy

Gerade erst gab es Ärger mit gefälschtem Bio-Essen, jetzt droht Italien der nächste Lebensmittelskandal. Laut einem Zeitungsbericht stammen 80 Prozent des Olivenöls "Made in Italy" gar nicht aus dem Land - oft ist die Ware gepanscht. Die Polizei ermittelt.

73% des Italiens opteront pour des produits Made in Italy pour le réveillon de Noël, renonçant ainsi aux produits de luxe importés comme le champagne, le caviar, les cerises et les huîtres, selon un sondage publié mercredi par la principale organisation agricole du pays. En outre, 33% des Italiens...

PARIS (AFP) - England's two surviving representatives in the Champions League, Chelsea and Arsenal, were handed tough ties against Italian opposition in Friday's draw for the last 16, while holders Barcelona will come up against Germany's Bayer Leverkusen.Chelsea will take on Napoli, while Arsenal will meet reigning Serie A champions AC Milan, with both Premier League clubs travelling to Italy ...

Shooting spree in Italy and Belgium

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The prospect of European heavyweights like Italy or Spain turning to the IMF for rescue loans is worrying the United States and other nations that fear they could suffer losses on funds they have extended to the IMF. The International Monetary Fund cannot be expected to step… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

AUSTRALIAN shares have gained 0.5 per cent after Italy announced $26 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran called on the West to avoid a deepening diplomatic crisis following the storming of the British embassy in Tehran, saying it was an issue between Tehran and London alone, Iranian media reported on Saturday.Britain closed its embassy after Tuesday's incursion by hardline youths and expelled all Iranian diplomats from London. The fallout for Tehran spread when several othe...

The dilemma in the euro zone remains the same as it has been for months. Either Germany pays for the bailout, or the thing gets broken up, writes Matthew Lynn.

Headline Title:  Italy: Make things right for the Roma 29 November 2011 The Italian authorities must act immediately to combat discrimination against Roma and provide redress for those affected by the widespread human rights violations perpetrated under the illegal state of em...

Italy must move far beyond the farce of the Berlusconi era.

New conservative leaders in Greece, Italy, and now Spain should look to Argentina for inspiration on how to turn their economies around quickly

Filed under: Francis Ford Coppola, Movies "Godfather" director Francis Ford Coppola says "Part II" -- which many consider the greatest sequel of all time -- was a MISTAKE ... insisting, "There shoulda only been one."Coppola was leaving Hemingway's Lounge in L.A. last night when we asked if he would ever pick up the Corleon...

SPAIN YESTERDAY became the fifth euro zone country after Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Italy to change its government under the shadow of the crisis in the currency.

Ich will keine Tradition aus dem freitäglichen Foreign-Affairs-Lesetipp machen, aber der Artikel Why Only Germany Can Fix the Euro über die Euro-Krise ist wieder mal lesenswert (womit ich nur meine: wert, dass man ihn liest - das ist nicht automatisch eine Zustimmung zu den Inhalten). Im Kern dreht er sich darum, dass Deutschland durch seine auf Währungsstabilität fixierte Politik die aktuelle ...

ITALY needs to renew the legacy of its post-war economic liberals to succeed.

The same universal laws seems to govern player rankings in sports as diverse as tennis, fencing, snooker and many others. How come? About 100 years ago, the Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto noticed that about 80 per cent of the land in Italy was owned by about 20 per cent of the people. Puzzled by this observation, he went on to check it elsewhere. To his surprise, the same principle applied i...

The Italian lower house of parliament is set to vote Saturday on a series of austerity measures demanded by Europe as a step toward restoring confidence in the country's economy.

Italy may have grabbed the debt-aggro headlines from Greece, but U.S. legislators now face the towering task of coming up with deficit-reparation cuts by Nov. 23.

Apparently the organizers of tomorrow's GOP foreign policy debate asked David Frum to submit ten questions to ask.  For the record, no one asked me... sniff.... really I'll be fine... but that doesn't mean I can't offer some of my own.  Here would be my top 10 questions:  1)  In the last debate, all of you declared that the United States should not help out Italy or other eurozone ...

ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) -- Republican Mitt Romney says if the U.S. does not get serious about reducing its spending and dealing with its debt, it will be in the same position as Italy in four to five years....

Stocks on Wall Street tumbled to their worst finish in nearly three months as the European debt crisis seemed to poison Italy, a country that may be too big to bail out.

European leaders may have "saved" Greece last week but investors are now worried about an even bigger problem: Italy.

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com: the next stop on SedoPro World Tour is coming up two weeks from now in Tuscany, Italy, right after Prague's DOMAINfest Europe. We have new details on both shows + highlights from Verisign's latest quarterly Domain Brief showing a nice jump in global domain registrations.