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When the Italian police unveiled their state-of-the-art Lamborghini patrol cars, they cannot have been short of volunteers itching to take the supercars in pursuit of speeding criminals.

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has become the first Western leader to visit Belarus in 15 years, as the authoritarian former Soviet state takes small steps toward reform.

Nov 30 - The lagoon city of Venice, Italy is engulfed by high waters with a large part of its historic centre flooded.

Director Roman Polanski attends Che Tempo Che Fa TV Show held at RAI Studios on November 23, 2008 in MIlan, Italy.

Giulia Bongiorno told the court Monday that her Italian client, Raffaele Sollecito, wound up being wrongly accused of murder because of a bloody footprint at the scene.

Kevin Rudd ... a a a garden-variety Christiana a who wants to be remembered as the a a bloke made a differencea a . Italy's prime minister was named Rockstar of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine in his country, but Kevin Rudd has told the Aussie edition he's more of a "classical nerd". In an hour-long interview and photo shoot with the pop culture ...

Actor George Clooney attends the 'Up In The Air' Photocall during Day 3 of the 4th International Rome Film Festival held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on October 17, 2009 in Rome, Italy.

"It is clear to anyone of honesty and good sense that we are faced with the most incredible and ignoble attack ever made on me in recent years," the Italian Prime Minister said, dismissing the Mafia accusations as "ridiculous, unfounded and infamous" and saying that he had "done more than anyone else" to fight organised crime.

Hour of Power 11:00AM - 12:00PM Religious programming. Jake Gyllenhaal attends a premiere for the movie 'Rendition' during day 4 of the 2nd Rome Film Festival on October 21, 2007 in Rome, Italy.

News Corp's satellite pay-TV unit Sky Italia sees enormous scope to grow its business and rejected talk of a war with its main rival, its chief executive said in a newspaper interview on Sunday.

It's all good Stan. Chocolate, strawberry.........tootie fruity. Just like ice-cream......everyone has a favorite taste.

Over its 34 editions, Arte Fiera Art First has strengthened its role as Italya TMs most important and complete international fair of modern and contemporary art by presenting the best historical and avant-garde galleries .

The Vatican, Sistine Chapel and Coliseum are the sights to see when traveling Italy.

Alfresco: Everything, including the sensational panelle, tastes better at Antica Focacceria San Francesco if you get a table outside - and you happen to be dining with the perfect companion.

A call girl who claims she spent the night with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said she faced threats after the alleged encounter with the embattled premier, in a book published Wednesday.

The Italian police have made nine arrests related to illegal betting charges concerning football.

A lawyer representing the family of a British college student who was slain in Italy is seeking euro25 million in damages from an American and two other defendants accused in the 2007 killing.

Actor George Clooney attends the 'Up In The Air' Photocall during Day 3 of the 4th International Rome Film Festival held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on October 17, 2009 in Rome, Italy.

Italy is committed to increasing its military presence in Afghanistan, while reducing the number of troops in other areas, Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa said today.

By Ibrahim Kasita THE Government has not yet approved the sale of Ugandan oil fields to an Italian company, a senior energy ministry official has said.

Just an extra teaspoon of salt a day can spell a 23 per cent difference in the worldwide rate of stroke and a 17 per cent difference in the rate of cardiovascular disease, suggests new research.

High salt intake is associated with significantly greater risk of both stroke and cardiovascular disease, concludes a study published on bmj.com today.

Brescia is a quiet town east of Milan and few would think of it as a hot spot for international terrorism. Yet Italian authorities believe that last year's terror attack in Mumbai (Bombay), where 173 people lost their lives, was partially planned from there.

On Saturday night, Italian police arrested two Pakistani nationals, Mohammad Yaqub Janjua and his son Aamar, on charges they helped pay for the attack. The two own "Madina Trading," a money transfer agency, which made it easy for them to send large amounts of currency abroad without attracting attention. Authorities became suspicious when they learned that 400,000 euros ($599,000) were transferred to a false name.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's estranged wife is seeking 43 million euros, or about $65 million US, a year in alimony in a divorce case she launched after her husband was embroiled in a sex scandal, an Italian newspaper reported Thursday.

US President Barack Obama will announce his new Afghan strategy in an address to the nation Tuesday from the prestigious West Point military academy, the White House said.

In Italy one in three women have been victims of violence and ill-treatment, the National Statistics' Office Istat reported Wednesday on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Thales has signed a significant contract with Intermarine to supply its Sonar 2093 system to the Italian Navy's Gaeta-class minehunting fleet.

Director Roman Polanski attends Che Tempo Che Fa TV Show held at RAI Studios on November 23, 2008 in MIlan, Italy.

An Italian hooker is opening up about time she spent with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, saying that the first time she visited him, she was joined by twenty other ladies of the night.

A first-of-its-kind consensus statement on diabetes surgery is published online today in the Annals of Surgery .

Two Pakistanis suspected of helping facilitate the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai were arrested.

Galileo's missing fingers are inside a glass vase. Three fingers, a vertebra and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei' s corpse nearly 300 years ago in a Florence have been found again and will soon be put on display, Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of the History of Science said on November 20.

A Brazilian transgender woman wrapped in a political scandal that took down a senior Italian politician was found burned to death in her home Friday.

Barbie, the iconic children's doll, is dressed in a traditional head-to-toe burka in her latest incarnation.

Five people were killed in a plane crash near Pisa airport in northwestern Italy, the country's air force said on Monday.

Silvio Berlusconi's love life has earned him the front cover of Rolling Stone magazine as "rock star of the year". Silvio Berlusconi on cover of Italian edition of Rolling Stone The magazine's Italian edition has hailed the 73-year-old's "rock and roll lifestyle" and said his exploits put those of real rock stars in the shade.

India may seek a review of its extradition treaty with Italy in a bid to take hold of a Pakistani father and son allegedly linked to the Mumbai terror attack, an Indian diplomat said on Monday.

Italian police arrested nine people including the president of Italian football club Potenza SC on Monday in a match-fixing investigation.

A transwoman known only as Brenda was found murdered in her burned apartment. Brenda had been filmed having sex with a high-ranking Italian politician; the subsequent scandal ended the politician's career.

One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover - wearing a burkha.

New book by Patrizia D'Addario adds lesbian dimension to alleged escapades at home of Italian prime minister Patrizia Da TMAddario says in her new book that she met two lesbians at the home of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

POPE John Paul II regularly whipped himself in a sign of 'remorse for his sins', a nun has disclosed.

A hundred pieces arrived in Mexico as part of the exhibition Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples.

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox reacts prior to the start of a hearing at Perugia's court, Italy, Saturday, Nov.

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By Jacques Van Der Westhuyzen Udine Following the fiasco of Ras Dumisani's butchering of South Africa's national anthem in Toulouse, the management of the Springboks are leaving nothing to chance for Saturday's match against Italy here at the Stadio Friuli.

The U.N. World Summit on Food Security ended Wednesday in Rome with Food and Agriculture Organization  head Jacques Diouf calling for the global community to shift the fight against global hunger from "words to action,"  Agence France-Press reports.

A cameraman films the bullet riddled wall outside Nariman House after a multi-faith candle light... A cameraman films the bullet riddled wall outside Nariman House after a multi-faith candle light vigil to commemorate last year's terror attacks at the house in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Nov.

In this Aug. 12, 2000 file photo, The Holy Shroud, a 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, is shown at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy.

Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.

'Brenda', a transsexual prostitute linked to a sex and drugs scandal which brought down the prominent Italian politician Piero Marrazzo, has been found burned to death in her apartment.

'Preliminary assessments for our 11 major banks suggest credit losses of 11 billion euros on the period from January to September.

When the hostess agency put out the call for attractive, well-dressed women, under the age of 35 and over 1.7 metres tall, it was inundated with responses from hundreds of Roman women.

The 200 women who answered a Rome modeling agency's advertisement for tall, attractive party guests thought they would be attending an elegant soiree on Sunday.

A drifter jailed for killing British student Meredith Kercher yesterday claimed he heard her rowing with flatmate Amanda Knox about missing money minutes before she was murdered.

Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt attend the 'Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans' premiere at the Sala Grande during the 66th Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2009 in Venice, Italy.

The absence of leaders from the world's wealthiest states undermined the UN Hunger Summit, reducing it to a "technical" forum, the head of the UN food agency said Wednesday.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ruled out early elections today, rejecting a warning by the Senate speaker that splits in the government threatened its ability to stay in power.

The head of a U.N. food agency expressed regret Wednesday that an anti-hunger summit failed to result in precise promises of funding, and critics said the meeting had only thrown crumbs to the world's 1 billion people without enough to eat.

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2009 file photo, Janet Jackson arrives for the amfAR charity dinner during the fashion week in Milan, Italy.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger attends a meeting of the world's 15 most innovative regions in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Nov.

Actor Nicolas Cage attends the 'Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans' premiere at the Sala Grande during the 66th Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2009 in Venice, Italy.

Milan , Saturday 14th November: the 2009 World Superbike Championship may be over but this does not mean that the work for Noriyuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio has finished! This week the Ducati Xerox riders have been kept busy with appearances at the 67th edition of the EICMA International Motorcycle Exhibition in Milano.

Chrysler Group LLC, in a step that will help Fiat SpA increase its controlling stake, plans to invest $179 million in the next five years in a Dundee factory to build the Italian company's 4-cylinder, 1.4-liter engines.

Joseph Rago, Chicago area attorney unsuccessfully tried to stop the Scurrilous and Defamatory "Fuggedaboudit: A Little Mobster Comedy" , a play that was staged by the Batavia Middle School "Bada Bing Players", that was written by the Jewish drama and communications teacher, Matthew Myers, and supported by the Jewish Batavia District Superintendent Jack Barshinger.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, blamed for plunging his people into starvation, used his platform as Tuesday's opening speaker at the U.N. anti-hunger summit to decry what he called his neocolonialist foes.

Pope Benedict XVI spoke Monday at a United Nations summit meeting in Rome. Sixty leaders attended the meeting, but apart from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy there were no leaders from the wealthiest nations.

The historic Biblioteca Ambrosiana on Tuesday unveiled 280 drawings by such masters as Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci collected by a 17th-century friar that have just returned from a Florence studio where they were restored for years.

It was also home to a young assassin named Ezio, whose arsenal includes a hidden blade, repaired by Leonardo, that he'll use to avenge the deaths of his father and brothers.

Photo dated Nov. 11, 1937 showing Italian Premier-dictator Benito Mussolini reviewing troops before the national Italian monument in honor of the 68th birthday of King Victor Emmanuel in Rome, Italy.

Maxxi museum opened on the grounds of a former military barracks in a residential area of Rome.

For more than 200 years, the people of Chioggia near Venice, have used the nicknames to distinguish between distantly related families, but they were never officially recognised.

Pope Benedict XVI decried the worsening plight of the world's 1 billion hungry on Monday as a United Nations food summit rallied around a strategy of more help to farmers in poor nations but rebuffed a U.N. appeal to commit billions to the plan.

The tax fraud trial of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi reopened today after a year but was immediately adjourned to January.

A college student from New York has died after falling from a steep flight of stairs leading to an ancient church in Rome, Italy.

On a cold, foggy lunchtime in Turin, Demir Ergulu is slicing hot wedges of glistening meat into oven-fresh pitta bread as hungry office workers queue up.

The leaders of the world's wealthiest nations will be conspicuous by their absence as more than 60 heads of state and government gather in Rome this week for a UN summit on the plight of the planet's billion hungry.

Police captured one of Sicily's top Mafia fugitives on Sunday, dealing a stiff blow to the island's Cosa Nostra crime syndicate, Italian officials said.

PRIME Minister Silvio Berlusconi spent two nights sleeping at the office amid reports he was on a hit list of politicians held by an alleged terrorist, the Italian press said.

The United States of America owes much of the hope it has right now of remaining what John Adams called "a nation of laws, not men" to Italian law enforcement.

More than 100,000 people demonstrated in Rome on Saturday to call for greater government action to tackle the recession, according to Italy's main trade union, CGIL.

As everyone knows, Pisa has the famous tilted tower you can climb, but an unspoiled Renaissance wall you can bike encircles the lesser-known Lucca.

Iran's greatest master of traditional music, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, always avoided open clashes with his country's ruling hard-line clerics.

As native Venetians flee in droves to the mainland for cheaper housing and easier living, those who have stayed marked their modern-day demise with a mock funeral procession Saturday down the Grand Canal.

Escort Patrizia D'Addario is believed to have accepted a starring role in a film about her alleged liaison with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi .

President Boris Tadiae says he has received support from Italy for Greek PM Giorgios Papandreu's plan to have all the Western Balkan countries in EU in 2014.

Performers warm up inside the new national museum for contemporary arts and architecture in Rome's Flaminio district, Friday, Nov.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says his government's justice reform plan will benefit all Italians but critics say it is just the latest in a string of tailor-made laws to help him avoid corruption trials.

The data show that the impact on our banking system is limited' - Luca Papi, Director-General of the Central Bank of San Marino said on Friday.

Siena got some welcome relief from their league travails by beating Grosseto 2-0 in the Coppa Italia tonight.

CANTINI, Giovannina A. 95, of Weirton, W.Va., died Wednesday, November 4, 2009, in the Weirton Geriatric Center.

Actor Matt Damon arrives at the Excelsior Hotel seen during the 66th Venice Film Festival on September 7, 2009 in Venice, Italy.

Osama Mustafa Hassan, an imam better known as Abu Omar, was snatched from a Milan street on February 17, 2003, in the operation coordinated by the CIA and SISMI .

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi looks on during a news conference on October 6, 2008 in Berlin, Germany.

Via Life in Italy.com: H1N1 FLU: ELDERLY VICTIMS BRING DEATH TOLL TO 39 . Excerpt: The number of victims in Italy from the H1N1 flu climbed to 39 on Wednesday with the death of two elderly patients in the Tuscany and Campania regions.

A A The Big Apple Long referred to as the center of American business, New York is a melting pot of cultures and landscapes.

KATHMANDU: Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has canceled his trip to Rome, capital of Italy, due to his illness, the local news website Nepalnews reported on Wednesday quoting M.K. Nepal's press advisor.

From a press release issued by KTM... Milan, Italy. KTM is presenting a range of innovative new motorcycles at EICMA 2009, recognized as the world's biggest annual motorcycle trade fair.

Made public today was a Message from the Holy Father addressed to participants in the sixtieth general assembly of the Italian Episcopal Conference , which is being held this week in the Italian town of Assisi.

Text Archive > American Libraries > A history of painting in Italy; Umbria, Florence and Siena from the second to the sixteenth century A history of painting in Italy; Umbria, Florence and Siena from the second to the sixteenth century This book has an editable web page on Open Library .

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Italy: industrial production down 15.7% [ Italica ] - Italy's industrial production index adjusted by working days fell 15.7 per cent in September compared to a year ago, while the not adjusted index drop 15.3 per cent - the Italian National Institute of Statistics, Istat, reports.

The 67th International Bicycle and Motorcycle Show will run at the Milan Fair from November 10-15, with more than half a million visitors expected to attend the world's biggest biggest show dedicated to two-wheeled vehicles.

Silvio Berlusconi addresses the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters on September 23, 2009 in New York City.

A discussion at Baabda Palace between presidents Giorgio Napolitano and Michel Sleiman in the presence of senior officials During the banquet: presidents Napolitano and Sleiman flanked by Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, Deputy Speaker Farid Makari and Deputy Premier Issam Abou-Jamra Melhem Karam, president of the Journalists' Association, greeting ...

Jake Gyllenhaal attends a premiere for the movie 'Rendition' during day 4 of the 2nd Rome Film Festival on October 21, 2007 in Rome, Italy.

BRESCIA, Italy, NOV. 8, 2009 .- Pope Paul VI's priesthood was under the protection of Mary and devotion to her accompanied him for his whole life, says Benedict XVI.

Through the eyes and brush strokes of Ann Pierce, retired art and art history department chairwoman at Chico State University, the Umbria district of Italy is brought to Chico, in an exhibit opening tonight in the university's Humanities Center Gallery.

Fugitive mobster Luigi Esposito, centre, is escorted by police officers outside a police station in Naples, Italy on Nov.

Some 84 percent of Italians oppose a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights that crucifixes should be removed from Italian classrooms, according to a poll on Sunday.

A NEWSPAPER close to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi issued an ultimatum to his allies yesterday, saying they must back laws shielding him from court trials or risk a government collapse.

Pope Benedict XVI made a one-day pilgrimage Sunday to northern Italy to pay tribute to Paul VI, his predecessor who made him a cardinal.

Berlusconi corruption trial 'to start November 27 AFP - The corruption trial against Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will take place on November 27, judicial sources said Saturday, after a high court this month stripped him of his immunity.

In Naples an excellent cup of coffee can be found twice on every block. If you ask for coffee and want something that comes in a cup larger than the length of your thumb, Neapolitans either look confused or smirk.

The beginning of chocolate is the cacao tree, known by ethnobotanists as "theobroma cacao." According to the article, " Introduction: Chocolate's History at a Glance ," chocolate in its raw state grows in a pod like a pea, but on trees 40-60 feet tall.

Antibiotic over-prescription is promoted by pediatricians' perception of parents' expectations.

The Hon Dr Tonio Borg, Deputy Prime Minister, in the presence of the Hon. Prof. Enzo Scotti, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Italian Republic, launched a book entitled, Malta & Italia, an enduring friendship , consisting of an illustrated compendium of the relations between the two countries since the attainment of ...

Italy's joke-loving prime minister struck a distinctly Borat tone on Friday when he told the president of Kazakhstan that a recent spike in the country's population was due to the virility of its menfolk.

The Amanda Knox murder trial in Italy is entering its final stages, with closing arguments beginning November 20.

Activists of anti-poverty group Oxfam wearing masks of world leaders fron left to right: British... Activists of anti-poverty group Oxfam wearing masks of world leaders fron left to right: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spain's Jose Luiz Rodriguez ...

The body of a 35 year-old Bulgarian, Albena Birdi, was discovered dumped in a canal in the Italian city of Padua.

ROME: An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric off the streets of Milan in 2003, a landmark verdict against one of the CIA's most valued anti-terrorism tools - a practice known as extraordinary rendition.

There was uproar in Italy yesterday over a ruling by the European court of human rights that the crucifixes that hang in most Italian classrooms are a violation of religious and educational freedoms.

Menino has served longer than any Boston mayor. Could this be the end of Irish Dominance in Boston/Massachusetts Politics or merely an anomaly? Boston Mayor Thomas Menino won a fifth term Tuesday after a campaign against his toughest challenger in 16 years, Menino has served longer than any Boston mayor.

Less restrictive dietary options, better detection, targeted avoidance measures, educational directives and potential new therapies are improving food allergy management and giving hope to the more than 12 million Americans affected according to experts at the thirteenth international food allergy conference held during the annual meeting of the ...

The nucleoside analogue entecavir achieves a high response rate and progressive decline in liver stiffness in patients with chronic hepatitis B, according to results from the first study in 'real-life' clinical practice reported at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases .

Within weeks of British student Meredith Kercher's death in the vibrant college town of Perugia, Italy, prosecutors and police declared the case closed.

ABC has booked a prime-time interview with pop star Janet Jackson, expected to be her first lengthy television interview since her brother Michael's death.

An Italian judge on Wednesday began deliberating the fate of 26 Americans and seven Italians charged with kidnapping an Egyptian terror suspect in 2003, as the first trial in the world involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program drew to a close.

Italians reacted with outrage on Tuesday after a European court ruled that displaying crucifixes in the country's schools violated the principle of secular education.

Italy's education minister condemned the judgment by the European Court of Human Rights, saying that the Christian cross was a symbol of the country's Roman Catholic religion and cultural identity.

Mariastella Gelmini, a member of the conservative government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, argued that "no one, and certainly not an ideological European court, will succeed in erasing our identity," said

I can't translate accurately from Italian, but this story appeared in Mexico's El Financiero en lA nea: Aumentan a 17 muertos por influenza humana en Italia .

Crucifix ruling sparks uproar in Italy A crucifix is seen on a wall as a student writes on a blackboard in a school classroom in Rome November 3, 2009.

Director Roman Polanski attends Che Tempo Che Fa TV Show held at RAI Studios on November 23, 2008 in MIlan, Italy.

Silvio Berlusconi addresses the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters on September 23, 2009 in New York City.

This occurs when the process of bone healing is interrupted or stalled. According to a new study published in the November 2009 issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery , certain cases involving nonunions respond very well to shock-wave therapy.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present the marble sculpture Young Archer, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti , in its VA©lez Blanco patio beginning November 3, 2009.

The exhibition includes eleven paintings made by Sorolla, Menipo by Velazquez plus three other reproductions Sorolla made in 1882 from paintings by Velazquez.

Naples, November 2 - A 72-year-old Naples woman became Italy's 14th victim of the H1N1 flu virus on Monday, according to local health officials.

The family of murdered Surrey student Meredith Kercher have spoken of their wish for a conclusion in the long-running trial of two people accused of killing her.

Actor George Clooney attends the 'Up In The Air' Photocall during Day 3 of the 4th International Rome Film Festival held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on October 17, 2009 in Rome, Italy.

Silvio Berlusconi will refuse to resign as prime minister of Italy , even if he is convicted in two corruption trials due to begin later this month.

IT IS a tangled tale of sex, greed and ambition in Silvio Berlusconi's celebrity-obsessed Italy.

Today is Sunday, Nov. 1, the 305th day of 2009. There are 60 days left in the year.

Italy's tax credits, which give international productions a 25% deduction up to $7 million, became fully available as of July, payable through an Italian executive producer.

Lebanon believes the Israeli army has it in its sights, and is preparing a major attack on its soil.