(ANSA) – Milan, March 17 – Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho was fined 10,000 euros Tuesday for arguing with officials during Inter`s 2-0 win over Fiorentina Sunday night. Mourinho, who received a red card from Sunday`s ref, has another disciplinary problem pending with Italian soccer authorities. Earlier this month he was cited for claiming Juventus [...]
(ANSA) – Rome, February 13 – The need for a common strategy to reverse the global recession and avoid protectionist domestic solutions to an international crisis will be the focus of a summit of economy ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) here on Friday and Saturday. Also attending the talks will be the heads [...]
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(ANSA) – Bologna, February 13 – Italian soccer great Giacomo Bulgarelli died Thursday night after a long illness, his ex-club Bologna said Friday. Bulgarelli, 68, who won the European championship with Italy in 1968, is remembered as the symbol of Bologna in the 1960s and 1970s, rivalling Inter Milan`s Sandro Mazzola and AC Milan`s Gianni [...]
(ANSA) – Rome, February 12 – A Group of Seven (G7) meeting on the global financial crisis is set to kick off in Rome Friday evening with a gala dinner for the finance ministers and invited guests. An informal opportunity for ministers to discuss the meeting`s agenda, the dinner will be held at Villa Madama, [...]
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(ANSA) – Paris, February 13 – Paris is celebrating Giorgio De Chirico`s art and his links with the city`s intellectual and artistic elite with a major retrospective opening on Friday at the Museum of Modern Art. The show gathers 160 works – paintings, sculptures, drawings and etchings – which trace his career from 1909 to [...]
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(ANSA) – Rome, February 6 – The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy`s top art exhibitions: ASCOLI – Galleria d`Arte Contemporanea: `Sedendo e Mirando`, 130 landscapes by famed cartoonist Tullio Pericoli; March 21-September 13. BOLOGNA – Museo d`Arte Moderna (MAMBO): More than 100 works by Giorgio Morandi in one of world`s biggest [...]
(ANSA) – Rome, February 6 – President Giorgio Napolitano on Friday confirmed he would not approve an emergency decree that would prevent doctors from removing Eluana Englaro`s feeding tube in accordance with a landmark right-to-die ruling. The cabinet unanimously approved the decree despite open opposition from Napolitano, who sent a letter to Premier Silvio Berlusconi [...]
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(ANSA) – Bari, February 6 – Police on Friday arrested a man who posed as a priest and sexually abused boys as young as ten near the southern city of Bari. Angelo Maria Chiriatti, 53, the self-styled founder of the Missionaries of Our Lady of the Quarry, is alleged to have abused five boys between [...]
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(ANSA) – Vatican City, February 6 – Pope Benedict XVI has created problems for Catholics and other religions with his decision to lift the excommunication of four traditionalist bishops, including one who has repeatedly denied that the Holocaust took place, Le Monde and the Financial Times said on Friday. Benedict`s rehabilitation last month of Holocaust [...]
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(ANSA) – Rome, January 19 – Health Minister Maurizio Sacconi on Monday described criminal charges of coercion lodged against him by the Italian Radical Party in a right-to-die case as “absurd“. The Radical Party made the charges after Sacconi issued a guideline that blocked a clinic from agreeing to help end the life of 38-year-old [...]
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