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Travel
by ITALY | Mon, 01/15/2007 - 05:19
Unions at Italian carrier Alitalia said on Friday that they were ready to call off their January 19 strike if the government offered guarantees on employment…
Lifestyle
by ITALY | Tue, 01/09/2007 - 05:36
Advances in stem-cell research could be faster with amniotic fluid than with embryos, the Italian researcher who first came up with the new alternative said…
Lifestyle
by ITALY | Sat, 01/06/2007 - 05:38
An Italian man who turned 100 this week is determined to show that his advancing years are no reason to take his aging Fiat 500 off the road. Giovanni…
Lifestyle
by ITALY | Thu, 01/04/2007 - 05:47
AC Milan's moves to reinforce an ageing, injury-hit defence look set to be at the centre of the January transfer market, which officially opens Thursday.…
Lifestyle
by ITALY | Wed, 01/03/2007 - 05:40
The Italian government said on Tuesday that it would lobby the United Nations for a worldwide end to capital punishment following a domestic outcry over the…
Travel
by ITALY | Thu, 12/14/2006 - 05:37
The government decided to sell Alitalia because the airline needs to be run as a private enterprise, Economy Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa told the Senate…
Lifestyle
by ITALY | Tue, 12/12/2006 - 07:57
A popular veteran journalist who disappeared from Italian TV screens after being criticised by former premier Silvio Berlusconi is set to return to national…
Lifestyle
by ITALY | Fri, 12/08/2006 - 06:14
Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato on Thursday criticised sharia, the Islam-inspired law system, as "chauvinistic". Speaking at a conference here on…
Travel
by ITALY | Tue, 12/05/2006 - 05:59
Alitalia shares continued to rise on Monday after Premier Romano Prodi said the government would move quickly on a plan to halve its controlling stake in the…
Lifestyle
by ITALY | Tue, 12/05/2006 - 05:49
A poll out Monday showed that more than 60% of Italians side with Piergiorgio Welby, a terminally ill man whose request to die has stirred the euthanasia…