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Late on Saturday evening news started to filter through that Sunderland’s American owner Ellis Short had decided to fire manager Martin O’Neill only sixteen months after he was hired.
Ten "wise men" will try to do what Italy's bickering politicians haven't been able to accomplish since inconclusive elections in late February — figure out a formula to help form a new government fast for the recession-mired nation as financial markets impatiently await an end to the impasse.
Since Rome, or more precisely the Vatican, is home to the Catholic Church, every year the city celebrates Easter and the preceding week in a grand style. Most of the Pope-centric traditions unfold in St. Peter’s Square. Feasts and picnics with family and friends follow on Easter Day and Pasquetta (or Little Easter. Remember: the Monday after Easter is a holiday in Italy).
Serie A leaders Juventus will be without striker Mirko Vucinic for the 'derby of Italy' at fifth-placed Inter Milan on Saturday (1400 GMT) because he has the flu.Vucinic was not included in the 21-man squad announced on the Italian champions' website (www.juventus.com) on Friday.
Four boats carrying a total of 342 migrants have landed in Italy and Malta, officials said Friday, as improved weather conditions in the Mediterranean herald more arrivals from Libyan shores.Three of the boats with 260 people on board were intercepted by Italian coast guards and taken to an immigration centre on the tiny island of Lampedusa, which is closer to north Africa than to the Italian mainland.
Scientists have criticized an Italian government decree allowing a group of terminally-ill patients to continue using an unproven stem cell treatment, saying such therapies may cause harm and risk exploiting desperate people.
President Giorgio Napolitano began a new round of consultations on Friday to identify a candidate for prime minister who would be able to count on the backing of Italy’s fractured political parties and be able to form a government.
How does the opera house of a major European city, one that has long struggled to achieve the cachet of the legendary La Scala theater in Milan, try to reverse its fortunes?First, it lures Riccardo Muti, who was associated with La Scala for 19 years, to be its “honorary director for life.” That is what the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome did two years ago, as part of a broader effort to overhaul its somewhat stodgy reputation.
Rome, Florence, Venice, and Naples these are the destinations where a first-time visitor to Italy dreams of traveling, and rightly so. You could spend your entire vacation in any one of these magnificent cultural hubs. But the lesser-known places; the towns and villages you'd likely pass by -- those are my favorite. The beauty of Italy is that every town -- even the tiniest village -- has its own individual identity; its own specialty products, dialects and customs, which makes roaming off the Italian tourist map even more addictive.
The decision to order a retrial of American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of her British housemate has put the spotlight back on Italy's courts, where years of legal process often fail to uncover the truth.