Rome - Aged 36 and with a 17-year career behind him, Juventus Turin veteran Pavel Nedved can't wait to take to the pitch Saturday for a Serie A showdown at Inter Milan.
Juve come to the Giuseppe Meazza stadium off five straight league wins, which have pushed them within three points of the leading champions after a dithering start to the season.
The Turin side also boosted their morale by securing the knockout stage of the Champions League with two defeats of Spanish giants Real Madrid.
"I'm glad to meet Inter now because we are in form," the Czech midfielder Nedved said.
Rome - Serie A strugglers Bologna Tuesday announced the signing of Brazilian midfielder Cesar, who was without a contract after winning the 2008 scudetto with Inter Milan.
Rome - Roman Catholic nuns in Italy under whose care a comatose woman has been surviving on life support for 14 years, have launched an appeal to save her life in the wake of a ruling by Italy's top appeals court allowing her family to halt the treatment.
"Our hope, and that of many like us, is that the death by hunger and thirst of Eluana, and others in her condition, will not be carried out," the nuns of the Misericordine Order said in a letter published Saturday in the Catholic newspaper, Avvenire.
Rome - Italian university students and lecturers staged demonstrations Friday in several cities around the country against government plans to streamline Italy's tertiary education sector.
The protests which have the support of two of the four main labour union confederations, and most of Italy's centre-left opposition, included a march through the streets of Rome.
Police strengthened security around parliament's lower house Chamber of Deputies where some protestors threatened to stage an unauthorized rally.
Rome - Italy's economy has contracted for the second consecutive quarter, marking a recession that comes in the wake of the international credit crunch, the country's central statistics office said Friday.
Gross domestic product in the third quarter in Italy - the eurozone's third largest economy - shrank 0.5 per cent from the second quarter, when it contracted 0.4 per cent, the Rome-based Istat said.
The third quarter fell 0.9 per cent compared to the same period in 2007.
Italy follows Germany, Europe's largest economy, in posting two consecutive quarters of contraction - the technical definition of a recession.
Rome - Aged 36 and with a 17-year career behind him, Juventus Turin veteran Pavel Nedved can't wait to take to the pitch Saturday for a Serie A showdown at Inter Milan.
Rome - Roman Catholic nuns in Italy under whose care a comatose woman has been surviving on life support for 14 years, have launched an appeal to save her life in the wake of a ruling by Italy's top appeals court allowing her family to halt the treatment.
Rome - Italian university students and lecturers staged demonstrations Friday in several cities around the country against government plans to streamline Italy's tertiary education sector.
Rome - Italy's economy has contracted for the second consecutive quarter, marking a recession that comes in the wake of the international credit crunch, the country's central statistics office said Friday.
Rome - A fine by Italy's air traffic authority added Thursday fresh woes to troubled carrie
