Wellington - The New Zealand government signed a contract Thursday to buy five Agusta-Westland training and light utility helicopters to be built at the company's Italian plant near Milan.

Rome - Italian President G

Cernobbio, Italy - German car maker BMW presented the BMW M1 at th

Belgrade  -  Serbia and Italy's giant carmaker Fiat Tuesday signed a protocol moving them a step closer to the 1-billion-dollar privatization of Serbia's moribund automobile factory, Zastava.

Lecce, Italy - Salento, the part of the southeastern Apulia region forming the "heel" of the Italian "boot," offers the eye Baroque art and vestiges of the many powers that have ruled it.

Washington  - Italian star maestro Riccardo Muti, 66, was named Monday as the new conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.