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Friday 3 September 2010

Italy should follow Germany, says Draghi
"Very cautious optimism" on recovery, central banker says

Italy should follow Germany's example if it wants to hitch a ride on the global recovery, Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi said Friday. Italy "must become productive and competitive like Germany" Draghi told an international banking...

Napolitano calls for industrial policy and minister
"Serious policy within
European framework"

Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Thursday called on the government to frame a new industrial policy and fill the four-month...

Strait of Messina Bridge, the works start, but people protest

Drilling for geognostic survey for the building of the bridge that will join Sicily to Calabria will have to move from the street into two condos in Torre Faro, a suburb near Messina. Next Thursday drilling will start and the...

Sara, she has been missing for eight days

Police are still looking for Sara Scazzi, who disappeared in Avetrana on the 26th of August. The police are investigating the territory and they are checking witnesses. Today the girl’s friends will be questioned again. The police think that Sara...

Prandelli: “Let’s change
the 2010 curse”.
Cassano-Pazzini against Estonia

“We must fight off negative thoughts. The idea of not having won anything this year can influence the team”. This is what Cesare Prandelli, coach of the Italian team, said...

He announced his suicide on a blog,
but the police of Catania saved him

The police of Catania saved a thirty-year old man who lives in Trentino Alto Adige. He had announced on a blog his intention of committing suicide for personal reasons. The investigators discovered the fact thanks to a young man from Catania, who runs...

SuperEnalotto jackpot
up to 126.5 mln euros. Naples town bets part of budget
as lottery fever keeps rising

Italy's popular SuperEnalotto lottery is still offering the world's biggest jackpot, with 126.5 million euros ($162 million) now up for grabs in Thursday night's draw. The...

Flood near Messina, he’s been missing since last year
but he still receives the instalments from the bank

He disappeared during last year’s flood in Scaletta Zanclea, near Messina, but his family is still receiving the instalments of a loan to pay the van that he had bought for work. This is what Simona Lenzo, the lawyer of Carmelo Ricciardello’s family’s...

World's first 'tree cathedral' takes root in Italy Work by late artist Mauri marks Year of Biodiversity

The world's first 'tree cathedral' has taken root in woods near the northern Italian city of Bergamo. The remarkable work designed by...

Beppe Grillo’s unity of Italy
“Padania? Bullshit. Sicily is a State”

(Roberto Rizzuto) “Padania is bullshit, Piemonte, Veneto and Tuscany are real, they are States, not Regions, just like Sicily and Sardinia. As soon as we realize this, we will be able to get rid of the Northern League and lay the basis of a new Italy”. This...

Cinema: four Italians
bid for Golden Lion
Tarantino heads jury for
Venice Film Festival

An unusually strong field of four Italian films are among the 24 bidding for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film festival over the next...

School, Gelmini against fire-fighters
on the maximum number of students per class

(Roberto Rizzuto) The temperature in view of the new school year is going up. In the last couple of days we wrote about the difficult situation due to the economic cuts imposed by the Economy minister Giulio Tremonti. Another problem is...

wine

Val di Noto, the new
Feudo Maccari

A 50-hectares-vineyard and now a new cellar to produce wines. This is Feudo...

viagra

Sex marathons but not only…

(Marco Sciortino) Chirac addressing Berlusconi: “Do you know what Viagra is?...

mussolini

Mussolini diaries hidden
in Spluga town

Diaries belonging to Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini along with...

painting

Ravenna celebrates
Pre-Raphaelites

The impact of Italian art on Britain's influential 19th-century...

animals

It’s too hot. The panther
goes on holidays

(Olga Plejcic) Summer has arrived and the panther that has been wandering in...

techno news

Newspaper revolution
with the iPad

(Domenico Giardina)The revolution has already started. The arrival in Italy...

analysis

The voice of the people inside institutions
How does a democracy grow

Which are the bases of western democracies? Why is our political regime considered a good model of governing? The most important thing is to blend...

Who produces Rai programmes?
Berlusconi’s Mediaset, Rai’s main competitor

sometimes...

The Story of Being

Jamie MacDonald 2002 In the vastness of infinity I roamed with others of my ilk Insubstantial, I was carried in the stream...

from sicily to china

Chinese sovereign wealth funds to finance Sicilian infrastructures

Financial arrangements with big banks and Chinese sovereign wealth funds will be available for the...

'Qr code': Technology meets Art at the Sicilian stand in Shanghai

Shanghai Expo: the Morgantina Treasure charms visitors

Sicilytown in Shanghai The Sicilian Region at the Universal Exhibition 2010

Sicilian delegation in Bejing to homage early Jesuits' tombstones

Sicilian citrus fruits might land soon on Chinese dinner plates

Shanghai Expo: Vittorio Sgarbi's participation impresses the Chinese audience

From Sicily to China, a bridge between Cultures

Expo 2010: long queues at the Italian pavilion. A visitor: 'It's well worth the wait'

Chinese and Sicilian universities. An agreement on cooperation

Shanghai Expo 2010, Sicily's stand welcomes visitors

a recipe a day

Sicilian pesto

Sicilian pesto is a great dressing for any kind of pasta. It is a regional recipe, so it has a lot of different variants, with different ingredients. For instance, Trapanese pesto...