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(ANSA) - Bologna, June 19 - Italian police have stopped a trade in fake truffles. Health-and-hygiene police raided restaurants around Bologna and found "dubiously sourced and non-genuine truffles," sold as the real thing, they said.
Victor Spinetti, who was an established British film star in 1963 when he agreed to make a movie with a pop group called the Beatles and who became famous ever after as the only person besides the four Beatles to appear in all of their movies —"A Hard Day's Night,"" A Help!" and “Magical Mystery Tour” — died on Tuesday in London. He was 82.
LONDON — An Italian proposal to use Europe’s money to reduce the borrowing costs of Italy, Spain and other countries under siege by investors has become the new hot topic on the euro zone’s agenda.
Defender Giorgio Chiellini will miss Italy’s European soccer championship quarterfinal against England with a left thigh injury.Chiellini left Italy’s 2-0 win over Ireland in the second half two days ago because of the injury. The center-back, who’s played 53 times for Italy, underwent a scan which showed a strain, according to team doctor Enrico Castellaci.
Daniele De Rossi is arguably Italy's most English-style player, relying on power rather than finesse, but the midfielder acknowledges he has not yet "exploded" ahead of Sunday's Euro 2012 quarter-final against England.
(Reuters) - Italy risks being pulled back to the heart of the euro zone debt crisis as the fallout from a Spanish bank bailout makes market access more expensive even though Italian economic fundamentals are seen as stronger than Spain's.
The recent earthquakes which rocked Italy had a devastating effect as a 5.1 magnitude hit northern Italy earlier this month followed by two other quakes the last of which was centered on the town of Novi do Modena in Emilia Romagna a region where the two previous quakes killed more than 20 persons and rendered 14000 homeless. Several buildings were destroyed and many towns were damaged.
ROME—Leave it to Italians to come up with just the thing to survive the dog days of summer: canine gelato.This Italian ice cream for dogs contains no milk, eggs or sugar, which are harmful to canines. With temperatures in Rome topping 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit) this week, dogs are lapping up the icy treat at a pet supply store on the outskirts of the capital.
Italy’s strongest earthquakes in three years and more than 1,800 aftershocks are deterring tourists in the peak summer season, compounding a slowdown in the industry as Europe’s economy stagnates.
ROME — Before Italians turned to Mario Monti late last year to rescue them, the country’s debt crisis had sent its borrowing costs skyrocketing and the government’s credibility tumbling.Anxiety eased for a time once Monti took the helm as prime minister, and so did the financial pressures on Italy, the euro zone’s third-largest economy.