Regional election, support for Berlusconi decreases by 4
points. “I’m worried, I will have
to stand in the front line”
The Prime Minister is worried about the decrease of his support after the mess of the electoral lists, but he also said that the...
“Institutional law massacred, President’s role under attack”, warns former President of Italy Ciampi
"The slaughter of illusions, the massacre of institutional law”, an “aberrant twisting of our democratic system”. So says Carlo Azeglio Ciampi in La Repubblica, commenting on the voting list mix-up. According to the former President of Italy, the fact that...
Nuclear plants in Sicily? Lombardo said no
“We will stop the project, the government can forget it”
“I am convinced that Berlusconi’s government will go to a lot of trouble to build nuclear plants in Sicily, but we will block him...
The Bishops from the South attack:
“The Church is too weak towards the Mafia”
The Church “has sometimes been too weak” towards the Mafia, we must make brave decisions for the South in order not to forget the document of the Cei on the South of Italy on the shelf, as it happened 20 years ago. This is what the bishops from...
GDP drop in 2009 expanded
to 5.1% Decline worst since 1971
National statistics bureau Istat on Wednesday again revised its data for the Italian economy last year and said GDP fell by 5.1%, when...
CGIL issues school warning: The ‘Gelmini cure’
11,000 jobs lost in Sicily over last 5 years"
The failure rate in high schools and technical colleges is on the increase and is now greater than 18%: 11,000 jobs have been...
Crisis in Sicily, the Fiat
workers call Fiorello
Pippo Baudo: the farmers’ hope
First the Fiat workers from Termini Imerese asked for Fiorello’s help; now there are the Sicilian farmers from Syracuse, Ragusa...
Plastic surgery, the experts’ alarm: too many “bandits” around
35% of the people who underwent plastic surgery suffered from side effects, 17% suffered from complications after the operation and 8% complained about mistakes made by the doctors. These are the results of Altroconsumo published by the...
Ravenna celebrates
Pre-Raphaelites. Show
is Italy's first ever
on influential British movement
The impact of Italian art on Britain's influential 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite movement is explored in a new exhibition in the coastal...
More and more English on Italian vocabulary
Use of 'Ital-English' said to be up 773% in eight years
English words are invading the Italian vocabulary and in the past eight years their use has leapt 773%, according to Federlingue, an umbrella group for language services, translators, interpreters and language schools. Federlingue carried out a study posting...
Colosseum to get major clean-up
Restoration, illumination
project to kick off this year
The Colosseum is to be restored, protected and lit up permanently in a project starting later this year. The 2,000-year-old symbol...
Loren thanks Mom
for 'fairy-tale life'. Star plays mother in bittersweet TV film
Sophia Loren is playing her late mother in a new TV film to thank her for the hardship she endured to help give her daughter "a fairy-tale life", the screen legend said Wednesday. Loren, 75, broke down in tears several times as she talked about La Mia Casa E' Piena di...
discoverer
Here are what doctors
find in Italian stomachs
Those who have little imagination just swallow coins (they are all accepted...
viagra
Sex marathons but not only…
(Marco Sciortino) Chirac addressing Berlusconi: “Do you know what Viagra is?...
theater
Cuticchio’s Teatro
dei Pupi
“We have just one big problem, the institutions”. This is what Franco...
animals
2/3 of Italy's mammals endangered
Nearly two thirds of Italy's mammals are at risk, the World Wide Fund for...
sex
For one girl out of ten the first time is at school
Almost one girl out of ten doesn’t experience her “first time” in the place...
coffee break
In Italy it costs three billion euros a year
In Italy there is a “machine” every 26 people and it gives drinks and snacks...
analysis
Regional election. The Pdl excluded in Lazio Amateurs, said the leaders of the political party
But are they involved?
“I had asked to improve the list, not to boycott it”. According to the newspaper Repubblica, this was the Prime Minister’s reaction. And you could believe...
health
Italy's anti-cancer 'supertomato' Campania creation helps beat disease, expert says
A 'supertomato' created by Italian scientists is the perfect food for helping keep cancer at bay, the head of the World Foundation of Urology said on...
good news
First class wine-tourism in Sicily
The Assovini companies in the lead
Hospitality, wine, food and environmental protection. These are the elements that have always been very...
flavours
Bagliesi’s organic grapes. Wine tourism between the Baroque and the Valley of the Temples
“It all started in the 1960s, when my grandfather decided to move from Partinico, in the province of Palermo...
emergency
Landslides in the province of Messina, Prestigiacomo: “The government will intervene” The civil defence: “A very complex situation”
THE PICTURES
“The government will intervene, there is money, even if it isn’t enough”. This is what the Minister for the Environment, Stefania...
The story of the month
… “They escaped leaving it ajar” – part 7
(by Gianni D'Amico) The day after, since we had played hooky, we continued our inspection in three. Melino had also joined us. Our insatiable curiosity was now attracted by a small house in the back yard, hidden by some plants...
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Udine looks at 19th-century French realism Millet, Corot, Sisley among Barbizon School
A sweeping exhibition near Udine is looking at the spread of 19th-century realism from France across central and eastern Europe...
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A recipe a day… Rice with sausages
Ingredients for 4 people: 400 g. rice 300 g. sausages 1 carrot 1 onion 50 g. butter 3 tomatoes ½ glass of...
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