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Milan prosecutors moved last week to bring charges against Parmalat founder Calisto Tanzi, other members of his family and an inner circle of company executives for their alleged…
Michelangelo’s statue David may be clean in time for his 500th birthday this year, but experts are concerned that his left ankle may not be strong enough to keep him standing…
As scabby-kneed kids, Calisto Tanzi and Fausto Tonna sat on the same schoolroom bench in the small town of Collecchio, outside Parma. Decades later they were running a booming…
At the end of a potholed dirt track in an impoverished Albanian port town stands a concrete hut with a small TV antenna fixed to the roof. Outside a scrawny cow picks for grass…
Art restorers in Pisa have found that a bacterium can do the job no chemical has managed to achieve: reveal part of a vast medieval fresco that was covered with a layer of glue…
Silvio Berlusconi this week set a dubious precedent in Italian legal history by becoming the first serving prime minister to appear at his own trial. The latest twist in…
The leaders of Italy, Australia, Britain and Spain are all swimming against the tide of public opinion in their quest against Iraq. The Guardian examines four leaders who have…
