Rome - A Ryanair Boeing 737 overran a runway Monday at Rome's Ciampino airport during an emergency landing, Italian officials said.
None of the 166 passengers on board the flight from Frankfurt, Germany, were injured, according to the ANSA news agency.
Pilots decided to make the emergency landing following problems with one of the plane's engines, Ciampino's rescue services chief, Marco Ghimenti said.
Barely 24 hours had passed since Barack Obama's election win and Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was, it seems, unable to resist making an unfortunate quip on the US president-elect's racial background.
The 72-year-old, three times Italian premier, had initially greeted Obama's election triumph in almost avuncular terms.
He would, he said, offer the 47-year-old US president-elect "some advice given my age and experience."
Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI and the Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Shaykh Mustafa Ceric, clasped hands and then hugged Thursday as the pontiff met participants at historic talks aimed at defusing tensions between Catholics and Muslims.
Rome - The ongoing financial crisis could threaten many countries' agricultural sectors, undoing this year's record world cereal production, a UN agency reported Thursday.
World cereal production is expected to set a new record this year thanks to high prices and favourable weather conditions, which boosted planting, said the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the latest issue of its "Food Outlook" report.
FAO's forecast for world cereal production in 2008 now stands at 2.24 billion tons (including rice in milled terms), 5.3 per cent more than in 2007.
Vatican City - Top Roman Catholic and Muslim clerics and scholars began Tuesday historic talks in Rome aimed at defusing tensions between Christianity and Islam.
The talks are part of an initiative by moderate Muslim individuals and groups that began in the wake of the violent protests in the Islamic against the publication in a Danish newspaper in 2005 of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed.
Rome - A Ryanair Boeing 737 overran a runway Monday at Rome's Ciampino airport during an emergency landing, Italian officials said.
Rome - Oops he's done it again.
Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI and the Grand Mufti of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Shaykh Mustafa Ceric, clasped hands and then hugged Thursday as the pontiff met participants at historic talks aimed at defusing tensions between Catholics and Muslims.
Rome - The ongoing financial crisis could threaten many countries' agricultural sectors, undoing this year's record world cereal production, a UN agency reported Thursday.
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