Rome, March 11 - Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday was upbeat about the economy saying that a recovery, while slow, was in the works.After pulling out of a deep crisis, we are beginning to rise.This recovery will not be fast and the numbers won't be big, but the trend is upwards, the premier said.Looking back at the economic downturn, Berlusconi recalled that the government, when it
Milan, March 11 - The man who hit Premier SilvioBerlusconi in the face with a spiked statuette in December on Thursday asked for a fast-track trial on assault charges.Massimo Tartaglia, 42, was initially scheduled to go ontrial in a Milan court on May 7.But if his request is accepted he will go before a singlejudge before then, legal sources said.A date is expected to be set later this month.Unde
Milan, March 11 - AC Milan will react toWednesday's 4-0 defeat at Old Trafford like they did in 2004when they won the Serie A title after going out of the ChampionsLeague by the same scoreline to Deportivo La Coruna, CEO AdrianoGalliani said Thursday. You'll see, it'll be like after La Coruna, now we'll winthe scudetto, Galliani said.Milan will again be without Pato and, probably, AlessandroNest
Sakhir, March 11 - The Formula One season kicks offthis weekend with the Bahrain Grand Prix and Ferrari driversFelipe Massa and Fernando Alonso are geared up and ready to go.Massa is particularly glad to get back to the track becauseit marks his return to competitive racing after hislife-threatening accident last July.Speaking at the season's first official press conference,the Brazilian said it
Vatican City, March 11 - Priestly celibacy is agift, the Vatican's 'minister' for the clergy said Thursdayafter an Austrian archbishop appeared to suggest the Churchshould look at the issue in light of recent sex abuse scandals. Priestly celibacy is a gift from the Holy Spiritwhich...must be lived with fullness and joy, said CardinalClaudio Hummes, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy,
Naples, March 11 - Italian police on Thursdayarrested a fugitive belonging to the notorious Casalesi clan ofthe Neapolitan Camorra crime syndicate.Ciro Gallo, 34, was said to be the 14th and last memberstill at large of a hit squad led by Giuseppe Setola that gunneddown six West African immigrants at Castel Volturno near Casertain September 2008. This sets the seal on the State's victory against
Rome, March 10 - National statistics bureau Istat onWednesday again revised its data for the Italian economy lastyear and said GDP fell by 5.1%, when corrected for the number ofworking days.Istat had initially put the decline in GDP at 4.9% and thenon March 1 revised this to 5%.Looking at the last quarter of 2009, Istat said GDP fell by0.3% over the previous three-month period and was down 3% fro
Ravenna, March 10 - The impact of Italian art onBritain's influential 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite movement isexplored in a new exhibition in the coastal town of Ravenna.The event is Italy's first ever on the movement as a wholeand aims to provide the Italian public with an overview of theirwork.Founded in the second half of the 1800s by William HolmanHunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel R
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