The new head of the employers’ organisation Confindustria is a woman, Emma Marcegaglia, 46.
Even though the populations of the two countries are more or less the same, there are three times as many architects in Italy as there are in Britain.
The Clericus Cup, an international football tournament for Catholic priests and seminarians, established to promote a positive image of football, received a setback when a priest from Burkina Faso was sent off for throwing his shirt at the referee. His team, Paul the Apostle’s College, has been disqualified.
Perla Pavoncello, 24, asked Silvio Berlusconi in a question and answer session how she was supposed to get a mortgage or start a family without a permanent job. Berlusconi advised her to marry a millionaire, such as his son Pier Silvio. "With that smile of yours, you could even get away with it," he added.
Pavoncello appears satisfied with the answer in that she is offering herself as a candidate in the elections for Mr Berlusconi’s party, People of Freedom.
Mr Berlusconi has also revealed that Margaret Thatcher once passed him an invaluable tip for dealing with political life. "She said: 'You cannot govern while reading the newspapers, you must only get your advisors to bring you the ones which speak well of you'. I called my assistant and told him, but then I did not see him again for two months," Berlusconi joked.
Professor Isacco Turina, a sociologist at the University of Bologna, says there are now as many as 1000 hermits in Italy, 60 per cent of whom were female. Hermit tourism is the new craze: Spiritour offers "hermit holidays” in the dunes of Morocco.
The trial involving Parmalat starts today, almost five years after the Italian dairy company collapsed in one of Europe's biggest-ever accounting scandals. The prosecution only has five years to finish the trial before it becomes subject to the Statute of Limitations, so the defence will try to string it out. More than 125 hearings have been scheduled involving 10 million pages of documents. The principal defendant Callisto Tanzi has called 34,000 defence witnesses.
The second Rome mathematics festival has started. It drew 60,000 visitors last year. Italy has seen university applications to study mathematics double in two years.
Augusto Cavadi, a Sicilian tour guide who got fed up with answering the same questions about the mafia has written a book, The Mafia Explained to Tourists, which tackles questions such as: what a mafioso looks like, whether the mafia will exist forever and "why haven't we seen a shoot-out in our 10 days here?" "I included the 10 questions I am always asked, so from now I can just hand out the book," he said. He got the idea reading a washing machine manual.
A 62-year-old Italian woman was stopped at Munich airport after baggage handlers found the skeleton of her brother in her luggage, police said yesterday. She was trying to fulfill the last wish of her brother to be buried in Italy. She was allowed to continue with her package to Naples, where all the cemeteries are full.
Even though the populations of the two countries are more or less the same, there are three times as many architects in Italy as there are in Britain.
The Clericus Cup, an international football tournament for Catholic priests and seminarians, established to promote a positive image of football, received a setback when a priest from Burkina Faso was sent off for throwing his shirt at the referee. His team, Paul the Apostle’s College, has been disqualified.
Perla Pavoncello, 24, asked Silvio Berlusconi in a question and answer session how she was supposed to get a mortgage or start a family without a permanent job. Berlusconi advised her to marry a millionaire, such as his son Pier Silvio. "With that smile of yours, you could even get away with it," he added.
Pavoncello appears satisfied with the answer in that she is offering herself as a candidate in the elections for Mr Berlusconi’s party, People of Freedom.
Mr Berlusconi has also revealed that Margaret Thatcher once passed him an invaluable tip for dealing with political life. "She said: 'You cannot govern while reading the newspapers, you must only get your advisors to bring you the ones which speak well of you'. I called my assistant and told him, but then I did not see him again for two months," Berlusconi joked.
Professor Isacco Turina, a sociologist at the University of Bologna, says there are now as many as 1000 hermits in Italy, 60 per cent of whom were female. Hermit tourism is the new craze: Spiritour offers "hermit holidays” in the dunes of Morocco.
The trial involving Parmalat starts today, almost five years after the Italian dairy company collapsed in one of Europe's biggest-ever accounting scandals. The prosecution only has five years to finish the trial before it becomes subject to the Statute of Limitations, so the defence will try to string it out. More than 125 hearings have been scheduled involving 10 million pages of documents. The principal defendant Callisto Tanzi has called 34,000 defence witnesses.
The second Rome mathematics festival has started. It drew 60,000 visitors last year. Italy has seen university applications to study mathematics double in two years.
Augusto Cavadi, a Sicilian tour guide who got fed up with answering the same questions about the mafia has written a book, The Mafia Explained to Tourists, which tackles questions such as: what a mafioso looks like, whether the mafia will exist forever and "why haven't we seen a shoot-out in our 10 days here?" "I included the 10 questions I am always asked, so from now I can just hand out the book," he said. He got the idea reading a washing machine manual.
A 62-year-old Italian woman was stopped at Munich airport after baggage handlers found the skeleton of her brother in her luggage, police said yesterday. She was trying to fulfill the last wish of her brother to be buried in Italy. She was allowed to continue with her package to Naples, where all the cemeteries are full.
It has been discovered that Giuseppe Garibaldi enjoyed a steamy correspondence with the wife of the British MP for Lincoln.
An average of one person a day in Italy loses the sight of an eye due to improper use of contact lenses.
Around 2,500 commercial radio stations broadcast in Italy
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not take her traditional holiday on Ischia, it is thought because of the rubbish problem in the Campania region, proving every cloud has a silver lining.
The German Chancellor Angela Merkel will not take her traditional holiday on Ischia, it is thought because of the rubbish problem in the Campania region, proving every cloud has a silver lining.
Archbishop Ennio Antonelli of Florence has said a mass for the Fiorentina football team saying he believes they will win the UEFA Cup .
Italy is the largest producer and exporter of tobacco in Europe and the sixth largest in the world
There are believed to be fewer than 50 Apennine brown bears left, protected in Italy's largest nature reserve, the Abruzzo National Park.
As an incentive for tourists, which have dwindled to almost zero following the rubbish scandal, the government is offering tourists staying for at least two nights in Naples between Easter and July discounts on public transport, museum entry, open-top bus tours and visits to the underground city (the one underneath the rubbish).
A survey by the OECD ranks Italy 23rd out of 30 for net, after-tax income.
Having sentenced several mafia bosses in Gela, Sicily, eight years ago, the judge neglected to write up their sentences, enabling them to go free.
25-year-old Michela Fiore is the first announcer on TV’s Naked News, where four young Italian women read out a news item before removing an item of clothing, continuing until they are naked. Interviewed before the show, she told reporters: ''I find it a very interesting job which will undoubtedly contribute to my professional development''.
A poll found that 91% of Italians wash their hands after using a public lavatory. Only the Germans, Norwegians and the Swiss were more hygienic, with 92% washing their hands.
Venice city council, having tried to stop the pigeons, will have a go at the dogs and hand out 15,000 free 'pooper scoopers' with plastic bags attached.
The Cassation Court has upheld a fine on a man for handing out leaflets which called a Southern Italian mayor ''a miserable charlatan, power fanatic, wheeler-dealer and immoral political presence''. Although these words were themselves permissible they became defamatory when accompanied by ''ignoble''. The mayor has not been named so it is uncertain whether the defendant can claim fair comment.
Venice city council, having tried to stop the pigeons, will have a go at the dogs and hand out 15,000 free 'pooper scoopers' with plastic bags attached.
The Cassation Court has upheld a fine on a man for handing out leaflets which called a Southern Italian mayor ''a miserable charlatan, power fanatic, wheeler-dealer and immoral political presence''. Although these words were themselves permissible they became defamatory when accompanied by ''ignoble''. The mayor has not been named so it is uncertain whether the defendant can claim fair comment.
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