Criscito flies to Italy for match-fixing hearing
July 15th, 2012 - 8:33 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, July 15 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Zenit St. Petersburg left-back Domenico Criscito flew to Rome Sunday to face match-fixing questions from the Italian football federation.Criscito was dropped from Italy's Euro 2012 ... Read more...
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Italian priest killed by mafia may be declared saint
June 30th, 2012 - 5:48 am ICT by IANS
Vatican City, June 30 (IANS/AKI) A priest from Italy's Sicily island who was killed by the mafia 20 years ago has been declared a martyr by Pope Benedict, and may ... Read more...
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Nearly 50 mafia men held in Italy
June 7th, 2012 - 12:58 am ICT by IANS
Rome, June 6 (IANS/AKI) Italian police Wednesday arrested 47 mafia suspects and seized millions of euros worth of assets in a major operation in the southern city of Naples.The suspects ... Read more...
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Toll in cruise ship accident off Italy rises to eight (Lead)
January 14th, 2012 - 5:44 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Jan 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Eight people died in the early hours of Saturday after a cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast, media reports said.The 290-metre-long, 1,500-cabin Costa ... Read more...
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Quite beyond science to explain Turin Shroud: Vatican daily
December 30th, 2011 - 7:05 pm ICT by IANS
London, Dec 30 (IANS) The Vatican's official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, has strongly endorsed research that suggests the Turin Shroud could be the actual burial cloth of Christ.Experts from the National ... Read more...
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Lazio beat Novara 3-0 to consolidate position in Serie A
December 6th, 2011 - 3:09 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, Dec 6 (IANS) Lazio consolidated their fourth spot in the Italian Serie A after they thrashed Novara 3-0 at home.Skipper Tommaso Rocchi scored a brace after Giuseppe Biava opened ... Read more...
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Italian magistrate arrested in mafia crackdown
November 30th, 2011 - 7:47 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, Nov 30 (IANS/AKI) An Italian magistrate was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of corruption and associating with elements from the country's wealthiest and most powerful mafia group.Giuseppe Vincenzo Giglio, magistrate ... Read more...
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Abducted Italian journalists freed in Libya (Lead)
August 25th, 2011 - 6:12 pm ICT by IANS
Tripoli, Aug 25 (IANS/AKI) Four Italian journalists who were kidnapped in Libya were freed Thursday during a raid on the Tripoli apartment where they were being held by soldiers loyal ... Read more...
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Italian MP wants international probe into Shahzad’s murder
June 16th, 2011 - 12:15 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, June 16 (IANS/AKI) An Italian lawmaker has demanded an international investigation into the killing of Pakistani journalist Saleem Shahzad.Shahzad's battered body was found May 31 in a canal in ... Read more...
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Berlusconi wins brief respite from sex scandals
February 4th, 2011 - 1:41 pm ICT by ANI
Wellington, Feb 4 (ANI): Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi won some brief respite from the sex scandals when parliament denied prosecutors' request to search some of his properties.In a much-needed victory for ... Read more...
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Berlusconi’s rep says cash for girls was merely an act of charity
January 20th, 2011 - 1:05 pm ICT by ANI
Sydney, Jan 20 (ANI): Silvio Berlusconi's representative has dismissed claims that the Italian Prime Minister paid money to have sex with the underage girls.Giuseppe Spinelli, who is suspected of handling money for ... Read more...
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Murder case in Italy solved after 35 years
January 19th, 2011 - 2:48 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, Jan 19 (IANS/AKI) A convicted criminal has confessed to killing an elderly woman in the central Sicilian town of Piazza Armerina - 35 years after she was found beaten and strangled ... Read more...
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Sly becomes brand ambassador for Italian writing company
December 29th, 2010 - 1:15 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 29 (ANI): 'Rocky' star Sylvester Stallone has taken his love of fine pens to another level - by agreeing to become a consultant and public face of luxury writing ... Read more...
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Mysterious allergen in wine that causes headaches, stuffy noses identified
November 18th, 2010 - 1:40 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Nov 18 (ANI): Scientists have identified the mysterious allergen in wine that causes headaches, stuffy noses, skin rash and other allergy symptoms.The discovery opens to door to development of wine-making processes ... Read more...
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Childhood asthma curbs smoking in adolescence
October 8th, 2010 - 1:32 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 8 (ANI): A new study from Italy has discovered that boys who suffer from asthma are less likely to smoke as teenagers.An epidemiologist at the University of Verona, Giuseppe Verlato, ... Read more...
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Pizzas beat Indian curry meals in Britain
August 9th, 2010 - 12:41 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 9 (IANS) Britons like pizzas more than spicy curries, spending about 330 million pounds on Indian meals against 749 million pounds on the Italian favourite.
Last year, about 466 million pizzas ... Read more...
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German who killed two over World Cup surrenders
July 8th, 2010 - 2:38 pm ICT by IANS
Madrid, July 8 (IANS/AKI) A German man accused of killing two Italians after an alleged row over the World Cup in a bar in Germany has surrendered to Spanish authorities, police said. ... Read more...
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Blood pressure drugs could help repair damaged kidneys
April 11th, 2010 - 5:00 am ICT by IANS
London, April 11 (IANS) Bood pressure drugs could someday be used to allow damaged kidneys to repair themselves, researchers have claimed.
If successful, the treatment could cut the numbers who need a kidney ... Read more...
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Shroud of Turin Exhibit Expected to Draw Millions
February 18th, 2010 - 10:56 pm ICT by Angela Kaye Mason
Turin, Feb 18, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Imagine getting to actually see the cloth which wrapped the body of Christ after His crucifixion! This is the anticipation that is causing experts to expect ... Read more...
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A western classical concert to promote cultural exchange in Meghalaya
January 26th, 2010 - 8:35 pm ICT by ANI
By D. HenpilenShillong, Jan 26 (ANI): Music has become synonymous with Shillong, which recently got a double treat in the form of a western classical concert and dance performance by a Swiss ... Read more...
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Picasso’s ‘Little Guitar’ recovered from Italian businessman’s shoebox
December 30th, 2009 - 3:42 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 30 (ANI): Spanish painter/sculptor Picasso's 'Little Guitar', a sculpture he had made for his daughter Paloma, has been recovered by the police from a shoebox in the home of an ... Read more...
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Tense Mourinho jostles reporter after dismal draw
December 14th, 2009 - 10:17 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, Dec 14 (DPA) Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho jostled and insulted a reporter after the Serie A game in which his side drew 1-1 at Atalanta, the ANSA news agency reported.
Andrea ... Read more...
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Nine arrests in Italy match-rigging probe
November 23rd, 2009 - 9:22 pm ICT by IANS
Rome, Nov 23 (DPA) Italian police arrested nine people including the president of Italian football club Potenza SC, Monday in a match-fixing investigation.
Prosecuting authorities said the arrests were on charges of ... Read more...
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Ancelotti dashes to Italy to visit ‘grievously’ ill father
October 23rd, 2009 - 4:24 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 23(ANI): Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti has flown back to his hometown Reggiolo, Italy to visit his seriously ill father.Ancelotti found out about his father Giuseppe's illness after Chelsea's Champions ... Read more...
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Flash floods kill 20 in Italy
October 3rd, 2009 - 4:44 am ICT by IANS
Rome, Oct 3 (Xinhua) At least 20 people were killed and 35 missing in flash floods in southern Italy, officials said Friday.
The government has declared a state of emergency in the ... Read more...
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Mick Jagger offers 100,000 pounds for ice cream van
May 30th, 2009 - 1:20 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 30 (IANS) Former Rolling Stones member Mick Jagger fell so much in love with a vintage-like ice-cream van that he was ready to shell out 100,000 pounds to buy it.
Jagger ... Read more...
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My dad was “sort of husband”, bro “sort of lover”: Italian Fritzl’s daughter
April 1st, 2009 - 11:42 am ICT by ANI
London, Apr 1 (ANI): The daughter of "Italian Josef Fritzl" has for the first time spoken of her trauma of how she was allegedly molested by her father from the age of ... Read more...
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Cops heard Italian Fritzl’s brutal rape of daughter on bugged phone
March 29th, 2009 - 3:28 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 29 (ANI): Michele Mongelli, the 'Italian Josef Fritzl' who kept his daughter prisoner and brutally raped her for 25 years, was known to police, it has emerged.Listening devices had been ... Read more...
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Now, ‘Italian Fritzl’ who hid and raped daughter for 25 years emerges
March 28th, 2009 - 1:05 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 28 (ANI): A man, dubbed 'Italian Fritzl', and his son have been accused of the serial rape of their daughters.Cops have revealed that Michele Mongelli, 64, kept his daughter prisoner ... Read more...
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Smell of rotten eggs is a big turn on for men!
March 3rd, 2009 - 5:18 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 3 (ANI): Rotten eggs might not be welcomed in a womans kitchen, but they can prove really useful under bed sheets, suggests a new study which found the smell ... Read more...
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David Pratt gets worlds fastest-ever red card after 3 seconds
December 29th, 2008 - 5:03 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 29 (ANI): Brit footballer David Pratt has landed himself the worlds fastest-ever red card.Pratt, 21, a striker from non-league Chippenham, was sent off after three seconds for a lunge ... Read more...
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Gwyneth Paltrow, Liz Hurley struggle in skyscraper heels!
July 10th, 2008 - 7:02 pm ICT by ANI
London, July 10 (ANI): If you thought that celebrities are comfortable wearing high heels than here''s something that you should know -Gwyneth Paltrow and Liz Hurley apparently struggled to get about ... Read more...
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5hrs in front of TV ups kids risk of asthma
June 17th, 2008 - 12:22 am ICT by ANI
London, June 16 (ANI): Kids who watch TV for more than five hours a day have a significantly high risk of becoming asthmatic, say doctors.Scientists at the Catholic University in Rome ... Read more...
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Catholic Church slams nudist beach festival in Sicily
May 8th, 2008 - 7:46 pm ICT by admin
London, May 8 (ANI): The Roman Catholic Church has objected to an upcoming nudist beach festival in Sicily - billed as a celebration of nudity over fears of an invasion of ... Read more...
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Italians giving costly pasta the snub
May 6th, 2008 - 5:04 pm ICT by admin
London, May 6 (ANI): It looks like pasta is on its way out in Italy of all places courtesy rising prices and falling sales.According to an analysis of Italians shopping habits ... Read more...
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