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The administration of the Vatican City State on Saturday categorically rejected as groundless a top prelate's accusations of corruption in the Holy See's awarding of contracts.
The United Nations' highest court ruled on Friday that Italy's courts were wrong to allow victims of Nazi war crimes to claim compensation against Germany because it has legal immunity from being sued.
“Motor Valley”, an 80km-long corridor of rich industrial land in central Italy, is a petrol head’s utopia. The strip that runs south from Reggio Emilia to Bologna is home to the world’s best-known motoring names: Ferrari and Ducati, Maserati and Lamborghini.
Italian Premier Mario Monti said Saturday that the eurozone must avoid stoking deeper resentment among its members as it tackles the debt crisis, while philanthropist George Soros said German-backed austerity measures risk pushing Europe into "a lost decade" or worse.
The chief executive of Italian energy company ENI says the country’s natural gas supplies are OK through Wednesday but if Russia’s Gazprom makes more cuts there could be problems.
"Giardiniera," is a tradition in many Italian-American households, but it does not require the work you might expect of a long-handed-down custom. It is a satisfying mix of cauliflower, carrots and peppers that are brined, then marinated in a zesty dressing. Giardiniera (pronounced jar-deen-YAIR-uh and Italian for “from the garden”) is piled on pizza, hot dogs and even stirred into tuna salad.
Anthony J. Bevilacqua, a former cardinal and archbishop of Philadelphia whose passion for Roman Catholic causes like helping the poor and fighting abortion was eclipsed in retirement by accusations that he had covered up sexual abuse by priests, died on Tuesday at a seminary in Wynnewood, Pa. He was 88. (...He) was born in Brooklyn on June 17, 1923, the 9th of 11 children of Italian immigrants. His father opened a hair-dyeing shop and a shoeshine shop in Queens.
Chrysler’s chief executive, Sergio Marchionne, who also heads Chrysler’s Italian parent, Fiat, is eager to prove that his company’s recovery is just beginning. “We’re taking nothing for granted,” Mr. Marchionne said in a conference call with analysts and reporters on Wednesday. “Nobody is falling asleep at the switch here.”
Thick snowflakes fell in Rome on Friday, a rare occurrence for a capital usually blessed by a temperate climate, and other parts of the country experienced frigid temperatures unseen in years.
Ben Gazzara, an intense actor whose long career included playing Brick in the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway, roles in influential films by John Cassavetes and work with several generations of top Hollywood directors, died on Friday afternoon in Manhattan. He was 81.