Milan, January 27 - Italian researchers have made anadvance in the study of lupin seeds to help diabetes, bolsteringthe notion that the yellow legume may help sufferers if added totheir diet.The insulin-like properties of a protein in lupins have beenknown for some time.But researchers in Milan say that, as well as controllingblood sugar levels, the conglutin gamma protein has a range ofother ben
Turin, January 27 - Under-pressure Juventus coachCiro Ferrara on Thursday thanked Inter rival Jose' Mourinho forcalling Italian coaches who last a season heroic. I thank Mourinho for his praise but I don't think wecoaches can be called heroes, said Ferrara, who is widelytipped to be replaced after Thursday's Italian Cup quarter-finalagainst Inter. Perhaps he was referring to Ferrara-Rocky Balboa
Naples, January 27 - Two of the most wantedfugitives in the Naples Camorra crime syndicate were arrested inBarcelona Wednesday.Paolo Di Mauro, 58, a leader of one of Naples' most powerfulCamorra clans, was on the list of Italy's top 30 most dangerousfugitives.Luigi Mocerino, also 58, was on the top 100 list and isbelieved to have run the clan's drug trafficking operations.The so-called 'superfugi
Rome, January 27 - Italians remembered the Holocauston Wednesday with a series of events and ceremonies around thecountry commemorating the 65th anniversary of the liberation ofthe Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.One of the signature moments of Holocaust Remembrance Daythis year was a parliamentary address by Nobel Peace laureateElie Wiesel, only the fourth non-MP ever to take the podiumbefo
Milan, January 27 - Inter boss Jose' Mourinho onWednesday defended on-the-brink Juventus manager Ciro Ferrara,saying coaches who manage to get through a Serie A season are heroes .Speaking ahead of Thursday's Italian Cup quarter-finalagainst Juve, Mourinho said perhaps there's too much money in(Italian) soccer so clubs have enough money to pay for so manycoaches .He said that since he came to It
Empoli, January 27 - Italy's first cellblockexclusively for transgender inmates will be ready in a matter ofdays and the transfer of prisoners there should begin by the endof March, the head of Tuscany's prisons department said onWednesday.The cellblock at the Pozzale penitentiary here waspreviously a low-security facility for women and Maria PiaGiuffrida said we had to modernise the plumbing an
Vatican City, January 27 - Pope Benedict XVI markedInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday by urgingGod to illuminate hearts and minds so that such tragedies cannever happen again .The pope, who recently visited the Rome Synagogue, saidthat when Auschwitz was opened 65 years ago the scene and thetestimony of the few survivors showed the world the horror ofcrimes of unimaginable sav
(by Denis Greenan). Palermo, January 27 - Cosa Nostra head MatteoMessina Denaro was hit Wednesday by the third huge seizure ofassets from business allies in just over a year.Police seized construction companies, villas, shops andvehicles worth some 550 million euros ($774 million) from awestern Sicilian construction magnate, Rosario Cascio.Cascio, 75, is believed to be one of the main bankrollers
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