Rome - Italy's scientific community is up in arms over what it charges as the unfair exclusion of an Italian researcher from this year's Nobel Prize for physics.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday awarded the prize to US researcher Yoichiro Nambu and his Japanese colleagues Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, for discoveries linked to describing the smallest building blocks in nature.
Rome - Hit-men shot dead Sunday the uncle of a mafia turncoat at a recreational club near Naples, southern Italy, news reports said.
The 60-year-old man, Stanislao Cantelli, was playing cards with friends at the centre in Casal di Principe, when unidentified gunmen repeatedly shot him with 9mm calibre pistols, the ANSA news agency reported.
Cantelli's nephew, Luigi Diana, is a former member of the Camorra, the Neapolitan version of the mafia, who began collaborating with authorities.
Rome - "A pinch of Parmesan" has taken on a different connotation in Italy where the famous cheese is the food product most targeted by shoplifters in supermarkets.
During the period 2006-2007, one in 10 Parmesan products vanished from the shelves of Italian supermarkets without being paid for, a group representing Italian producers of agricultural products said Thursday.
The figure marked an 11 per cent increase over the previous year, the group, CIA, said.
Rome/Strasbourg - The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday in favour of Italy's judiciary's decision to grant former porn-star and Italian parliamentarian Ilona Staller custody of her son with US artist Jeff Koons.
"I am happy for this decision even if it comes after more than 14 years of battles in the courts," Staller, who during her porn career used the name La Cicciolina (The Cuddly One), told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Rome - The current world financial meltdown is proof that god-less political and ideological remedies are not capable of preventing global ills, the Vatican's second highest official, Cardinal Tarciso Bertone said Tuesday.
"Through distinct roles, politics needs religion; when God is ignored, the capacity to respect rights and recognize the common good vanishes," said Bertone who, as the Holy See's Secretary of State, holds a position similar to that of prime minister.
He was speaking at conference in Rome organized by the Italian branch of the Aspen Institute, an American nonprofit organization which seeks to promotes leadership values.
Rome- Italian anti-Fascist resistance veterans have reacted angrily to Spike Lee's film Miracle at St Anna, which deals with the exploits of black US soldiers in Italy during World War II, but also with a massacre of civilians committed by Nazi troops.
On Tuesday, a branch of Italy's main partisan association ANPI said it would picket a screening of the film because of the "historical lies" it contained.
ANPI militants would also distribute pamphlets at the screening scheduled for Wednesday in the Tuscan city of Viareggio to protest the "offence against the Resistance."
Rome - Italy's scientific community is up in arms over what it charges as the unfair exclusion of an Italian researcher from this year's Nobel Prize for physics.
Rome - Hit-men shot dead Sunday the uncle of a mafia turncoat at a recreational club near Naples, southern Italy, news reports said.
Rome - "A pinch of Parmesan" has taken on a different connotation in Italy where the famous cheese is the food product most targeted by shoplifters in supermarkets.
Rome/Strasbourg - The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday in favour of Italy's judiciary's decision to grant former porn-star and Italian parliamentarian Ilona Staller custody of her son with US artist Jeff Koons.
Rome- Italian anti-Fascist resistance veterans have reacted angrily to Spike Lee's film Miracle at St Anna, which deals with the exploits of black US soldiers in Italy during World War II, but also with a massacre of civilians committed by Nazi troops.
