Rome - Some half-a-billion euros (665 million dollars) in European Union funds could be made available to help reconstruction efforts in Italy following last week's devastating earthquake, a top EU official said Wednesday.
European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani said the Italian government had 10 weeks by which it would have to apply for the money.
Almost 300 people were killed and around 35,000 left homeless in the earthquake which struck the central Abruzzo region on April 6.
Rome - Serie A strugglers Bologna switched coach for the second time this season, calling up veteran Giuseppe Papadopulo to replace Serb Sinisa Mihajlovic, the club's website reported Tuesday. Bologna mildly improved their standing after former star defender Mihajlovic took over from Daniele Arrigoni in November, but at the weekend sank into the three-team drop zone after suffering a fourth straight defeat.
L'Aquila, Italy - Almost a week after a devastating earthquake hit central Italy, authorities on Sunday terminated the search for survivors with the death toll standing at 294. A
59-year-old man who died in hospital late Saturday was the latest victim of the earthquake that struck the Abruzzo region on Monday.
By Sunday morning all missing people were accounted for, but officials said they could not exclude the possibility of more being found under rubble in the city of L'Aquila and other badly damaged towns.
Rome - Rescue teams in Italy's central Abruzzo region continued to sift through the rubble Saturday, six days after an earthquake that left at least 290 dead. Volunteer rescue workers using a special microphone had on Friday night scoured the rubble of a house in the city of L'Aquila, where noises had been heard. There was however little hope of anyone being found alive, according to Italian media reports.
The quake that registered some 6.2 on the Richter scale struck on Monday, destroying scores of buildings in L'Aquila and other nearby towns in the Abruzzo region.
Rome - Pope Benedict XVI planned to preside over Rome's traditional Good Friday evening Way of the Cross procession at which the Vatican has invited the faithful to reflect on the persecution of Christians in IndiaThe procession was to be accompanied by words penned by Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil of Guwahati, India.
As in many previous years, the event which commemorates the last hours leading to Jesus' crucifixion was set to be held at Rome's Colosseum.
Berlin - Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim is to perform in Egypt for the first time next week, the foundation he jointly heads said on Friday. Barenboim will conduct the Cairo Symphony Orchestra at a concert in the Egyptian capital's Opera House on April 16, the foundation said.
Supported by Austria and Spain, the concert is part of the conductor's efforts to promote dialogue in the Middle East. On the programme are piano solos and Beethoven's
5th Symphony.
Rome - Some half-a-billion euros (665 million dollars) in European Union funds could be made available to help reconstruction efforts in Italy following last week's devastating earthquake, a top EU official said Wednesday.
Rome - Serie A strugglers Bologna switched coach for the second time this season, calling up veteran Giuseppe Papadopulo to replace Serb Sinisa Mihajlovic, the club's website reported Tuesday. Bologna mildly improved their standing after former star defender Mihajlovic took over from Daniele Arrigoni in November, but at the weekend sank into the three-team drop zone after suffering a fourth straight defeat.
L'Aquila, Italy - Almost a week after a devastating earthquake hit central Italy, authorities on Sunday terminated the search for survivors with the death toll standing at 294. A 
Rome - Rescue teams in Italy's central Abruzzo region continued to sift through the rubble Saturday, six days after an earthquake that left at least 290 dead. Volunteer rescue workers using a special microphone had on Friday night scoured the rubble of a house in the city of L'Aquila, where noises had been heard. There was however little hope of anyone being found alive, according to Italian media reports.
Rome - Pope Benedict XVI planned to preside over Rome's traditional Good Friday evening Way of the Cross procession at which the Vatican has invited the faithful to reflect on the persecution of Christians in IndiaThe procession was to be accompanied by words penned by Archbishop Thomas Menamparampil of Guwahati, India.
Berlin - Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim is to perform in Egypt for the first time next week, the foundation he jointly heads said on Friday. Barenboim will conduct the Cairo Symphony Orchestra at a concert in the Egyptian capital's Opera House on April 16, the foundation said.
