Naples, Italy News

NAPLES, Italy a ' The Navy is now offering some of its junior engineering officers a $50,000 bonus if they sign up for another five years of active-duty service.

Italians are adding a distinctly worldly note to their Christmas nativity scenes this year - " carved wooden figurines of their prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney, among others.

Miniature likenesses of the late prince of pop, Michael Jackson, are also featured in scenes that traditionally depict Joseph and Mary in a straw-lined barn looking lovingly at the Baby Jesus.

Wooden nativity figures, known as presepe, have been carved by Italian craftsmen for centuries. The craftsmen congregate in workshops along narrow, cobbled Via San Gregorio Armeno, in the heart of Naples, Italy's third-largest city, carving and painting figurines for the festive season - " from donkeys and sheep to angels and the Three Wise Men.

One of the most unique features of Naples, Italy: a time machine. Step onto the Circumvesuviana Railway in central Naples.

Salerno, November 21 - Police on Monday seized five tonnes of illegal fireworks near Naples as an annual crackdown ahead of the New Year gathered pace.

Rotarian Gaetano de Donato receives the RI Service Above Self Award from Past RI Director Raffaele Pallotta d'Acquapendente. Photo courtesy of the Rotary Club of Napoli The Rotary Club of Napoli , Italy, is fighting back against a health condition that, if undetected, can rupture the abdominal aorta without warning and cause almost instant death.

From the Divisions of Cardiology and Internal Medicine , Federico II University, Naples, Italy.

BioEDEN, the world-leader in dental stem cell extraction and storage, is celebrating the first successful human medical trial using stem cells from teeth.

Skimming across the water into the Bay of Naples is a majestic experience. Over the crystalline, blue gulf loom the two thousand year old Castel dell'Ovo on the left and the massive Mount Vesuvius on the right.

Former Juventus chief executive Antonio Giraudo has been sentenced to three years in prison for his role in a match-fixing scandal that shook Italian soccer.

My husband and I got to go to Italy for a 10-day visit. I would not call it a vacation, it was a tour.

Transcript On-Air Challenge This week's puzzle is called, "I Will Lead." Each clue is a word that contains the letter "I" inside.

Capri's beauty and seclusion has lured artists and writers for centuries and with very good reason, as Aaron Akinyemi found on a recent trip to the Italian island.

The Japan News.Net Thursday 10th December, 2009 Brussels, Dec 11 The European Union appears to have developed a yen for Italian pizza and has granted Neapolitan pizza a special label to protect it from any rivals.

Italy . The country that gave us la lingua bella offers some of the most fascinating sites in the world.

A trip to Napoli in December? Why not, it's closer than you think. The flavors of that historic city on the coast of the Gulf of Naples in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius are abundant at the new Schiano's Italian Garden in Homosassa, and it's a quick trip for folks in the Citrus County area who are seeking the ultimate in Neapolitan cuisine.

The contract contains a 7-month base period and 5 one-year options, which, if exercised, bring the total value of the contract to $124.9 million.

Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences/Medicine, FONDAP Center CEMC, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile Institut Cochin, Universit Paris Descartes, CNRS , Paris, France Dipartimento di Farmacologia Sperimentale, Universit degli Studi di Napoli, Napoli, Italy INSERM, U805, Villejuif, France CNRS, FRE 2937, Institut Andre Lwoff, Villejuif, ...

SEAFORD -- Nola Ohlwein Miner, 91, of Seaford died Monday, Nov. 30, 2009, at Methodist Manor House in Seaford.

In this day and age, travelers just have to realize that the blah, formal phrases in pocket guidebooks just won't do anymore.

Rome and Naples are top Christmas season travel destinations in Italy and both are good places to explore Italian Christmas traditions and shop in the daily Christmas markets.