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
(by Denis Greenan). Rome, March 10 - Sophia Loren is playing her latemother in a new TV film to thank her for the hardship sheendured to help give her daughter a fairy-tale life , thescreen legend said Wednesday.Loren, 75, broke down in tears several times as she talkedabout La Mia Casa E' Piena di Specchi (My House Is Full ofMirrors), a two-parter airing on RAI state TV Sunday and Monday. Sorry
Rome, March 20 - Italian police and the FBI onWednesday arrested 27 suspects - 21 in Palermo and six in the US- in an operation against a powerful Cosa Nostra clan and USaffiliates including three Gambino family 'capi' in New York.Agents said the two-year operation showed how the Italianand US branches of the Sicilian Mafia were still working closely together. But we have cut off those links, s
Milan, March 10 - Premier Silvio Berlusconi accused magistrates on Wednesday of discriminating against hisPeople of Freedom (PdL) party by not allowing officials to fileelection documents, excluding it from regional elections in theRome area.Berlusconi said that two magistrates at Rome electoraloffices had astoundingly decided that party representativeswere a centimetre beyond office boundarie
Rome, March 10 - Rome is to name a street afterAbebe Bikila, the Ethiopian runner who won the Rome marathonbarefoot in 1960. We're still looking for the most appropriate place tocommemorate Bikila's legendary feat, said Rome Culture andSport Commission President Federico Mollicone.Mollicone said the street would be named by the end of theyear, the 50th anniversary of the groundbreaking run when
Rome, March 20 - Italian police and the FBI onWednesday arrested 26 suspects in an operation against apowerful Cosa Nostra clan in Palermo and US affiliates includingthree Gambino family 'capi' in New York.Agents said the two-year operation showed how the Italianand US branches of the Sicilian Mafia were still working closely together.In New York, the FBI took into custody Gambino commandersGaet
Rome, March 10 - The Colosseum is to be restored,protected and lit up permanently in a project starting laterthis year.The 2,000-year-old symbol of Rome will be cleared of decadesof grime, said Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno.The grungy and precarious state of the monument has been a daily worry , Alemanno said.The complete restoration of the almost 13,000 square metersof exterior walls will take some
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