Budget cuts: Vote of confidence for Government
The Italian Chamber of Deputies confirmed its confidence in the Berlusconi government, with 329 'Ayes' to 275 'Nays' on the question of the Italian budget constraints. The House will now move to look at the Budget agenda items. The...
Millionaire fraud against Inps between Catania and Ragusa
50 people under investigation, amongst whom a notary
and an accountant
A criminal association that defrauded Inps and operated between the provinces of Catania...
Mafia, fugitive caught in Treviso
Vito Zappalà, who was being hunted since 1999, after his was sentenced to 29 years of imprisonment and 3 years of probation, was caught in Mogliano Veneto (Treviso). The operation was carried out by the police of Catania with the help of their...
Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Roadside bomb
hits Italian vehicle north of Herat
(Two Italian soldiers were killed on Wednesday when a roadside bomb hit their armoured vehicle in in northwestern Afghanistan, military sources in Rome...
Fiat issues ultimatum, says plans for Italy not ditched Carmaker wants guarantees 'plants can function'
Fiat said Wednesday that its plans to boost production in Italy have not been ditched after causing a stir last week by saying it would make a new model in Serbia. However, the company also told trade union leaders and government...
Those strange shadows (figures) behind the trees
New mysteries in Castellana Sicula. Aliens or mass psychosis?
There are two possibilities: either we are in front of a mass psychosis or aliens have chosen Castellana Sicula for their visits. And in fact many people have been calling our newspaper to tell us about sightings on the Madonie mountains, especially in...
He beat his wife and left her
in the street with her son
The incident happened in Piazza Armerina: the man was imprisoned and the woman hospitalized
She was beaten by her partner in front of their child, but she told the police that she had just fallen and she didn’t want...
Africa-Europe intercontinental swimming record attempt Tunisia to Sardinia within a week
Giovanni Brancato, as of 8 o’clock yesterday evening, had swum 93 (167.4 km) of the 118 nautical miles between Tunisia and Sardinia. The 55 year-old swimmer from Messina left Cape Blanc-Bizerte, Tunisia on Wednesday, in his attempt to break...
P3 Case, Verdini’s answer to Fini
“I have no reason to resign”
“I have no reason to resign” was the answer given to Gianfranco Fini by Denis Verdini, who was interrogated for nine hours in court in Rome. The request of the President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies...
Demopolis: “Pdl goes down,
Pd stable
The Northern League grows”
The Pdl goes down to 33%, the Northern League reaches 13%, the Democratic Party is stable at 27%, but it has gone down considering the last elections. Antonio Di...
“The Sicilian girl” charms the USA
The press: “F.F. Coppola, take notes!”
America discovered Rita Atria, the young Italian heroine that reported the Mafia and committed suicide 18 years ago, on the 26th of July 1992, throwing herself from the seven floor of a building in Rome, a week after the D’Amelio slaughter...
Marsala, agreements between
the Irvv, Consorzio di Tutela
and Centro “Del Giudice”
to launch the wine of the Unification of Italy
The Marsala wine must come out from darkness and gain consumers’ appreciation. Marsala is a complex wine, a niche product,...
The hands of the boss on wine
Eight people reported for fraud, “Feudo Arancio” involved
The Italian Guardia di Finanza impounded a wine company and cash for more than 4 million Euros between Acata and Vittoria. The investigation, carried out by the prosecutor’s office of Ragusa, led to the arrest of eight...
Elisabetta Canalis in trouble
A model says:
“We snorted cocaine together”
“I used drugs with Elisabetta Canalis”. This is what model Karima M. said to magistrate Di Maio. The model snorted cocaine together with other people from the showbiz world...
The mayor of Sanremo got rid of Belen. “She uses drugs? No festival”
“I cannot accept my city being associated with someone who does not have moral values, and if Belen uses drugs, I don’t want to see her on the Ariston stage”. This is what Sanremo’s mayor, Maurizio Zoccarato, who was in Milan to present the contest Area...
Dolce&Gabbana team up
with Chelsea FC. Blues to wear D&G suits in three-year deal
(Denis Greenan) Dolce&Gabbana and Chelsea FC on Wednesday signed a three-year deal to dress the Blues. It will be the first foreign...
wine
Val di Noto, the new
Feudo Maccari
A 50-hectares-vineyard and now a new cellar to produce wines. This is Feudo...
viagra
Sex marathons but not only…
(Marco Sciortino) Chirac addressing Berlusconi: “Do you know what Viagra is?...
mussolini
Mussolini diaries hidden
in Spluga town
Diaries belonging to Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini along with...
painting
Ravenna celebrates
Pre-Raphaelites
The impact of Italian art on Britain's influential 19th-century...
animals
It’s too hot. The panther
goes on holidays
(Olga Plejcic) Summer has arrived and the panther that has been wandering in...
techno news
Newspaper revolution
with the iPad
(Domenico Giardina)The revolution has already started. The arrival in Italy...
analysis
The voice of the people inside institutions
How does a democracy grow
Which are the bases of western democracies? Why is our political regime considered a good model of governing? The most important thing is to blend...
sometimes...
The Story of Being
Jamie MacDonald 2002 In the vastness of infinity I roamed with others of my ilk Insubstantial, I was carried in the stream...
new society
Franco Battiato’s manifesto of the new society. Sacred within reach. How to get rid of infiltrators, fake believers and mimics
The flexor tendons, between bones and muscles, enter the hand through the carpal tunnel where they form three layers. In the wrist and the palm of the hand all the flexors of the long fingers are included in a single synovial sheath that allows the...
italians all over the world
The New US Italians, Giovanni Abbadessa, oncologist and researcher:
“We’ve become influential and I’ll tell you why”
(essepì) Do you remember the 1960’s cult film ‘Rocco and his brothers’? You can’t, of course, if you’re not old enough. Well, it’s a film that tells the story of Italian emigration from the south to the...
x files
Ufo, chain reaction of the Madonie mountains
New sightings
Now the pot is being uncovered. Since we published the story of two young people from Castellana Sicula, who saw a mysterious object, local people are...
greek art
Agrigento loans "Gela Krater" to Getty museum
The “Gela Krater”, a red figure wine mixing vessel, dating back to sometime between 475-450 BC and decorated by the Niobid Painter, will go on exhibition in the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California...
flavours
John J. Law appointed new president
of The British Chamber of Commerce for Italy
The Presidency of the British Chamber of Commerce for Italy passed from Mr. David Crackett to Mr.John J. Law at the Annual General Meeting on 24 th June...
philately
From the North Pole to the Moon: Armstrong's footprint and that of a postmark, in human history
(by Claudio Ernesto Manzati) The narrative of events occurred on Polar Soviet drifting base...
The story of the month
"They escaped, leaving it ajar"
(by Gianni D'Amico) I was born in 1935 in a crumbling suburb in the north-eastern part of Palermo known under the name of Sant’Uffizio...
focus on
wine&food
A recipe a day… Cheese pie
Ingredients for six people: - 250 g. French pastry - 100 g. fontina - 100 g. Gruyere - 2 eggs - 1 dl...
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