Italy deploys 20,000 to protect sensitive targets

17 maggio 2012 - 17:27
Italy increased security Thursday at 14,000 sites, and assigned bodyguards to protect 550 individuals after a nuclear energy company official was shot and letter bombs directed to the tax collection agency. Under the enhanced measures, Interior Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri deployed 20,000 law enforcement officers to protect individuals and sensitive sites...

Founder of Italian party
probed in funds scandal

16 maggio 2012 - 17:56
Milan's chief prosecutor says the charismatic founder of an Italian party that had vowed to fight political greed is himself under investigation in a widening ...

Monti faces renewed pressure to speed reforms

16 maggio 2012 - 12:12
For the Italian entrepreneur whose business and marriage were falling apart, a tax bill was ...

Godfathers do not commit suicide
A message behind Provenzano’s attempt?

11 maggio 2012 - 18:29
No godfather has ever committed suicide before. Only mean men kill themselves, not men “of honour”. Surviving a suicide attempt, for the mafia culture is even more “dishonorable” t...

Donna Summer, Queen of Disco,
dies at 63

Disco queen Donna Summer, whose pulsing anthems such as "Last Dance," ''Love to Love You Baby" and "Bad Girls" became the soundtrack for a ...

Israel upset over lack
of opening ceremony tribute

Israeli officials were fuming Thursday after failing to convince the IOC to hold a special tribute at the London Olympic opening ceremony to the 11 Israeli team ...

Greek chaos continues
to roil world markets

The shockwaves from Greece's failure to form a coalition government continued to reverberate around markets on Wednesday, with investors ...

Eurozone avoids recession
as Germany powers ahead

Germany prevented the economy of the 17 countries that use the euro from falling into a recession in the first quarter of the year despite a raging debt crisis ...

Intesa SanPaolo reports profits up

Italian bank Intesa SanPaolo says first-quarter earnings rose 22 percent due to higher trading profits and cost-cutting. The bank said Tuesday that net income...
ARTICOLI CORRELATI: Moody's downgrades ratings of 26 Italian banks

Vatican mystery intensifies,
bones found in grave

Several boxes of bones have reportedly been found inside the Rome tomb of a reputed ...

Local elections show
Berlusconi’s party decline

The vote to elect Italian mayors in more than 900 towns and cities saw heavy losses for the centre-right PDL. Berlusconi’s party was subjected to humiliating defeats ...

Anti-nuke anarchists
claim Italy shooting

An Italian newspaper has reported an anti-nuclear anarchist group as claiming responsibility for shooting the chief executive of a nuclear engineering firm...
ARTICOLI CORRELATI: Italy links nuke exec shooting with Red Brigades

Spaniards rage against austerity, grim economy

Spaniards angered by increasingly grim economic prospects and unemployment hitting one out of every four citizens protested in droves ...
ARTICOLI CORRELATI: At least 100,000 march in Spain over austerity

German opposition wins
major state election

Voters in Germany's most populous state inflicted an embarrassingly heavy defeat on Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives Sunday...

Greek euro exit
no longer unthinkable

Let Greece go: It's a possibility that's being considered more and more publicly in Europe. There have been two and a half years of bailouts, on top of broken ...

Montepaschi bank probed for market manipulation

Shares of the Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena have tumbled after financial police searched its offices in connection with a market rigging probe in the 2007 acquisition of B...

Italy pays lower rates in bond sale

Italy easily raised €10 million ($12.96 million) from the markets in a pair of bond sales in which it paid lower interest rates. Yields on 12-month bonds dropped to ...

Italian marines denied
bail in India

An Indian court has denied bail to two Italian marines accused of shooting Indian fishermen they mistook for pirates. A court in the southern state of Kerala ...

Monti effusively praises
Turkey’s EU member bid

Italian Premier Mario Monti says Turkey could give the "tired" European Union vibrant economic, strategic and cultural benefits if allowed to become a member. Monti effusively p...

Amanda Knox slander trial postponed in Italy

Amanda Knox's slander trial in Italy has been postponed until next year because the judge was busy with another trial. Knox faces a charge of slander ...

Catholics, Jews unite
at Colosseum vs. attacks

Catholics and Jews have gathered outside the Colosseum in Rome in a candlelit vigil to decry attacks on Christians in the world, especially in the Middle ...

Hollande defeats Sarkozy
51.62 pct to 48.38 pct

France has awoken to a new era after electing Socialist Francois Hollande as president, a leftist pledging to buck Europe's austerity trend and NATO's ...

Bergamo, kidnapper surrenders
“Ruined by economic crisis”

After 7 hours, the man who Thursday broke into the headquarters of Equitalia tax collection office in Bergamo, finally surrendered...

Hospital visitors say
Andreotti is better

Family and staff of Giulio Andreotti, Italy's former seven-time premier, say he is feeling better and wants to go home from the Rome hospital where he is...
ARTICOLI CORRELATI: Ex-premier Andreotti hospitalized

Ex-Serie A coach says ‘sorry’
for slapping player

Fiorentina coach Delio Rossi has apologized for slapping a player but says he demands respect for himself and his team. He told a news conference on Friday...
ARTICOLI CORRELATI: Fiorentina coach fired after attacking player

Italy to keep Prandelli
regardless of Euro results

Italy plans to keep coach Cesare Prandelli in place no matter how the Azzurri fare at the upcoming European Championship. Italian soccer federation president ...

400,000 fans celebrate
at Juventus parade

More than 400,000 fans packed the streets of Turin on Sunday night as Juventus celebrated its Serie A title victory with an open-top bus parade. The parade...
ARTICOLI CORRELATI: Del Piero scores as Juve celebrate title

Health

Anxious, irritable, sleepless
and no sex? Stress is to blame

According to a survey, published on the website of the European Association of Disorders and Panic Attacks, who is too stressed out doesn’t make much sex and as a consequence has s...

Social News

Hundreds of thousands
may lose Internet in July

For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer...

Greek party most extreme
of Europe’s far right

Twenty-one members of Golden Dawn were sworn into Greece's Parliament on Thursday, making it the most far-right party to enter a European legislature since Nazi-era Germany. Europe...

Gay marriage a distant dream
around the world

China's government considered homosexuality a mental disorder until 2001. In Egypt's conservative, Muslim-dominated society, laws prohibiting "shameless public acts" have been ...

Boring meets Dull
in international partnership

Boring, meet Dull. That's what happened when two small towns, one in Oregon and the other in Scotland, decided to become sister communities. The Oregonian newspaper reports that th...

Starck says democratic
design paying off

Philippe Starck says his philosophy of democratic design, or quality pieces at accessible prices, is paying off in the ongoing economic crisis. "People are intelligent. They wan...

Who are the Knights Templar?
A look at many groups

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has claimed allegiance to the Knights Templar, which he described as a secret society created to carry out a crusade against Islam in E...

Art & Culture

Author’s crime thriller aids
anti-Mafia organisation

IT IS the stuff of legendary gangster movies – brutal murders and mysterious people keeping quiet for their protection. But the face of Mafia culture and its grip on modern Sicily ...

Queer Film Festival opens in Sicily

A self-financed film fest focused on quality, heterodox, independent and alternative cinema. The "Sicilia Queer filmfest", the first international glbt film ...

Pope Benedict to attend
La Scala Beethoven concert

Pope Benedict XVI will attend a concert at the La Scala opera house of Beethoven's Ninth symphony conducted by Daniel Barenboim. The June 1 concert is part of the pope's Milan visi...

Funds-short museum
burns art in protest

For a second day in a row, the director of a contemporary art museum in a small Italian town near Naples has burned a painting to protest a ...

New ‘Romeo and Juliet’
has an Iraqi spin

In a new staging of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," a Baghdad theater director has transformed the Montagues and Capulets into religious rivals ...

Scorsese says all his
future movies will be 3-D

Martin Scorsese has become so enamored with 3-D filmmaking that he expects to use the technology in all his future projects...

Woody’s ‘To Rome with Love’
shows the sweet life

Woody Allen is presenting his latest film "To Rome with Love" in the city that inspired it, but some hometown critics are grumbling that the American...

Wine & Food

Sicilian Wines in the U.S.A.
Eataly NY is getting ready

The Regional Institute of Sicily's Wines and Oils and the Councillorship of Agricultural and Food Resources in collaboration with Eataly NY, as part of the internationalization pro...

Cibus, the Italian food fair
at its 16th edition

Once again, Sicily has revealed its excellence and its cultural identity at the 16th edition of Cibus, held at Parma's Fair, until May 10th. This year the attention of the internat...

Palermo, street food in rhymes

"Palermo street food" is the first pocket-size tourist guide by SiciliaWeekend. The guide will bring readers around to hunt...

“Wine Women” feminine awards
at Vinitaly 2012

Elena Martusciello, the President of Wine Women Association, has been awarded the Medal of Can Grande as Agriculture Well-deserving...

Excellence and provenience,
the best of Sicilian wine

At the international Verona Wine Fair, export data for Sicilian wine have been confirmed positively, with discrete increments spread over a various number ...

Fashion

Armani includes Italian anthem
on Olympic kit

Giorgio Armani has included the words of the Italian national anthem on the team's Olympic kit unveiled on Thursday. Each athlete will be given a set of Armani ...

Chanel goes baroque
in Versailles cruise show

As some of the world's most glamorous women prepare for the Cannes Film Festival later this week, Karl Lagerfeld has shown again that he's a step ahead...

Stars dress for Wintour-hosted, Prada-themed gala

It's known as one of the most glamorous red carpets of the year, with movie stars, models and even a few star quarterbacks putting on their most fashion-forward ...