Italy

A little taste of Italy in heart of the city gives diners a flavour of festival

Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

DINERS at city centre restaurants were serenaded and entertained last night by Italian street performers.

Giulia Lagana: Roma face fear and loathing in Italy

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Giulia Lagana: Entrenched prejudice is now spilling over into open hate with violent attacks and government clampdowns

Libya and Italy seen set to sign compensation deal

Christian Today (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago

Libya and Italy will soon seal a deal worth billions to compensate for the European countrys threedecade colonial rule Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafis influential son said on Thursday

• Libya, Italy to sign compensation deal-Gaddafi son - San Diego Union
• Italy: Compensation to Libya - Islam in Europe

Autoblog gets schooled by Alfa Romeo in Italy

Autoblog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Filed under: Motorsports , Euro , Alfa Romeo Click above for a high-res gallery of our time in the Alfa Romeo driving school. Let's take a quick vote here. We won't be tabulating the totals, so we'll keep this unofficial, but we want you to be honest. How many of you, deep inside, wonder if you couldn't have made it as a professional racing driver? Maybe not the next Michael Schumacher, but at least...

Italy

Timorous Beastie (Free subscription) | yesterday

I laughed when a friend who works in another university told me exactly this story last week. Then it happened to me and I started to think something must be going terribly wrong with the high school curriculum. I was giving some first year English communications skills students their obligatory end of semester oral exam. Their English is really poor, so it has to be very simple or they panic, and...

Italy calls up troops for urban crackdown on migrants

The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday

Nine hundred soldiers are to be deployed in Rome with the job of making the Italian capital a cleaner, quieter and more decorous place, under a law and order package approved by parliament which targets the country's illegal immigrants.

Italy targets illegal immigrants

BBC News (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008

Illegal immigrants convicted of crime in Italy face prison sentences a third longer than those for Italians, under new laws approved by parliament

Assessing QPR After Northampton...Recalling QPR's Italy Tour...Where Are They Now? Armel Tchakounte

QPR REPORT (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

- Dave McIntyre/BBC 606 - Winging it Emmanuel Ledesma’s cross for Dexter Blackstock to score the winner at Northampton could be a sign of things to come. After featuring in central midfield at Stevenage on Saturday, Ledesma played out wide in last night’s game – and that’s where he will play from now on. Blackstock's header gave Rangers a 1-0 win but more importantly, the match was another chance to...

Mother watches husband, kids die on Italy climb

OTB News (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

MILAN, Italy (AP) — A Dutch woman watched her husband and three children fall to their deaths Thursday while climbing near Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak, Italian rescuers said….

Italy returns antiquities looted from Iraq

The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Italy on Thursday returned 13 ancient Iraqi artifacts that had been smuggled out of the country after the U.S.-led invasion. ...

Italy to Sue Google Executives

Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Italian prosecutors are preparing to file charges in a 2006 case against four Google executives over a video uploaded onto the Internet provider's Italian-language site showing a disabled teen taunted by peers.

Meg Ryan is Sleepless in Italy

Just Jared (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

Sleepless in Seattle actress Meg Ryan receives the Francois Truffaut Award during the Giffoni Film Festival on Thursday in Giffoni, Italy. The 46-year-old actress will be coming out with her next film, The Women, slated for a Sept. 12th opening. It is a remake of George Cukor’s 1939 film of the same name where a [...]

Italy's military athletes on mission for medals

Reuters (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

MILAN (Reuters) - The only war that Airman Andrew Howe and tax police officer Antonietta Di Martino plan to wage next month is on the sports field.

Train to Lake Maggiore - Stresa, Piedmont, Italy

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Jump to the full entry & travel map Stresa, Piedmont, Italy Stresa on Lake Maggiore - a charming town in a magnificent location!  Grand Hotel Des Iles Borromees - Atmospheric 'Belle Epoque' Palace Resort situated in lush park, overlooking Lake Maggiore.  The Grand Hotel Des Iles Borromees is located immerse in a big park, facing the famous Lake Maggiore and Borromeo Island, five minutes...

Travel by Train to Venice - Venice, Veneto, Italy

TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Jump to the full entry & travel map Venice, Veneto, Italy Venice in the winter- so interesting and wonderful to enjoy without the tourists!  The Londra Palace has a perfect location on the Grand Canal.  Since the city has no cars, it is a must to walk everywhere and they say you haven't really visited Venice until you've gotten lost on the miriad of small streets, bridges over canals and...

Help Europe: Silvio Berlusconi takes over the European media

matucana | 09/06/2008

Did you know that Berlusconi's media imperium has been expanded with one of the major media concerns ( Endemol ) in the world? Endemol was already owner of the Spanish Telefonica. Why didn't we read anything about that in our media? This happened mid 2007. Did you notice that latest years investigative journalists are a dying race? Maybe it's not a bad idea to draw a clear map of the current media...

Silvio Berlusconi: What has won the Italian elections and who controls the European media?

matucana | 28/05/2008

These are all statements of Silvio Berlusconi himself in the weeks before the 2008 elections. Silvio Berlusconi assures a few weeks before the elections that there is no place in his coalition for persons with a criminal past or with mafia connections (an exception is made for political crimes) A few days before the elections, Berlusconi remembers one of his previous plans: submit judges at regular