Economy on the rise,
Berlusconi says
Premier presents
new 'Bank of the South'
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday was upbeat about the economy saying that a recovery, while slow, was in the works...
Cesaroni murder: Ex-caretaker
found drowned. Investigation into possible incitement to suicide
Proceedings have been opened by the Taranto Public Prosecutor’s Office, against person or persons unknown, for incitement to suicide following the death of Petrino...
EU swindled out of a million euros
Farm in Ragusa area under investigation
A swindle that could cost the European Union a million euros has been discovered by the Guardia di Finanza, i.e. the Customs Guards Corps, in the Ragusa area. The investigators are having a close look at a farm at Scicli. The suspects include the...
The UN High Commissioner addresses the Lower Chamber: “Let’s stop considering illegal immigrants as criminals”
“I deplore the tendency to consider illegal immigrants as criminals”. This is what the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, Pillay, said. Speaking to the Italian Lower Chamber, Pillay underlined the importance of a national organ to protect human...
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...
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. He can forget it”. This is what the President of the Sicilian Region, Raffaele Lombardo said after the Fiom regional...
Bank of Italy announces:
"Italian families deeper in debt”
500 billion euros in the red, 6.4% more than last year
Italian families are deeper and deeper in debt: the total amount they owe approaches 500 billion euros, says the Bank of Italy...
“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 the...
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...
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 lost over the last 5 years (7,260 in 2009) and a further 5,000 positions (both teaching and administrative) are expected to be...
The Fragalà case. A new suspect He’s not a client. Mafia lead
Just a few hours after the clearing, thanks to the Dna, of the first suspect for the murder of lawyer Enzo Fragalà, the prosecutor’s office placed under investigation another suspect. This time the man is not a client, but a previous offender close...
Black labour market the main reason
why pensions in Sicily are the lowest in Italy
Pensions in Sicily are lower than anywhere else in Italy. The reason is that so many workers in the island have worked long years in the black labour market without any pension coverage. So when they reach the age of 65, most workers have only...
She took photos of herself
naked and stalked her dancing teacher . Young woman
arrested in Palermo
She had been obsessing her dancing teacher for four years every day with hundreds of phone calls and sms. But not only. The...
Italy poised for body scanners
Airports in Rome, Milan ironing out last wrinkles
Italy is gearing to test body scanners on flights to the United States from Rome and Milan in the wake of the failed Christmas Day bomb attack on an American flight coming into Detroit from Amsterdam. The testing scheme was set to start Monday...
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...
technology
Electric cars "made in Sicily"? It's not a news
“Maranello” is the first electric car produced entirely in Sicily. This is...
recipes
TV food expert suspended for hailing 'tender cat meat'
The co-host of a popular daytime cooking show...
editorials&comments
Italians? They are all like Berlusconi This is how Italians are seen abroad
But is it true?
First the Noemi-gate and the separation from his wife Veronica, then the escort scandal and more recently the attack at...
analysis
No more coup, but a parallel government in Italy
We did not know it, but it is true. The parallel government is becoming stronger and it is stating to move. It works night and day against Silvio Berlusconi to put him aside, to replace him as soon as possible, and in any case to prevent him...
people
Plastic surgery,
the experts’ alarm: too many “bandits” around
35% of the people who underwent plastic surgery suffered from side effects, 17% suffered from...
focus on
Ex-Wermacht soldiers linked to Kefalonia Massacre
Two new suspects have emerged in a probe into the WWII execution of Italian soldiers by German forces on the Greek island of Kefalonia, Italian military...
people
She created a group on Facebook to support her brother’s innocence
The sister of an alleged murderer from Agrigento, Fabrizio Messina, 35 years old from Porto Empedocle, brother of Gerlandino, in hiding since 1999 and...
Violence on women: almost 70% of cases happens because of the partner
69.7% of rapes are carried out by partners, 17.4% by an acquaintance ad 6.2% by a stranger. Strangers mainly commit sexual harassment...
Son of BR founder arrested for terrorism
The son of a 1970s leftist militant who helped found the notorious Red Brigades (BR) terrorist network...
Minister's big babies remark hit by flak
Civil Service Minister Renato Brunetta was under a deluge of friendly and enemy fire on Monday for suggesting that the government approve a law...
Party on a cruise ship and after 9 month a black son
This time denying the evidence would have been a guinness record. And when a couple from Caltanissetta, nine months after their marriage, had a black baby boy...