Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius missed out in another attempt to qualify for the Olympics on Friday.
Ferrari agreed on Friday to end legal action against McLaren over last year’s spy scandal for the good of Formula One.
Oscar Pistorius resumes his bid to qualify for the Olympics on Friday at a Golden Gala featuring a cast of standouts honing their form.
It was September 30 2003. A young intelligence officer, Federico Armati, was renting a house that looks on to Campo de’ Fiori, a square in old Rome.
Double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius came fourth in an able-bodied race on Wednesday, finishing outside the Olympic qualifying time.
A painting of Biblical ”sinner” Mary Magdalene has been revealed as the work of Italian Renaissance master Titian.
Fiat said on Monday it will keep running an ad featuring actor Richard Gere and a reference to Tibet that has angered some in China.
Italy must show fighting spirit to make up for the loss of many in Tests in South Africa and Argentina, said stand-in captain Leonardo Ghiraldini.
Filmmaker Dino Risi, whose films helped shape Italian comedy during a career that spanned seven decades, died on June 7 in Rome.
A United Nations global food crisis summit risked embarrassing failure to reach any formal agreement on combating hunger threatening a billion people worldwide.
World leaders will seek on Thursday to agree an action plan to tackle the global food crisis after three days of wrangling.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, whose 28-year rule has brought widespread hunger to his country, on Tuesday defended the seizure of land from white farmers, saying he is undoing a legacy of Zimbabwe’s former colonial masters. Mugabe spoke to world leaders at a United Nations summit on the global food crisis against a backdrop of sharp criticism over his participation.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe accused the West on Tuesday of seeking to provoke "illegal regime change" by crippling his country economically. Speaking at a summit on the global food crisis, the veteran leader accused the West of using non-governmental bodies and opposition parties to try and bring him down.
The United Nations urged a summit on the global food crisis on Tuesday to help stop the spread of starvation threatening nearly one billion people by lowering trade barriers and removing export bans. ”Nothing is more degrading than hunger, especially when man-made,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told world leaders.
Shares of Italian broadband operator Tiscali jumped 10% on Tuesday after a report that Britain’s Vodafone Group could bid for the company. The cellphone company would make a bid in the next 24 hours to buy all of Tiscali, Italian daily MF reported, citing sources close to Vodafone.
Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro was ruled out of the upcoming Euro 2008 championships on Monday after suffering a left ankle injury, according to the Ansa press agency. The replacement for the 34-year-old Real Madrid defender — capped 116 times — will be announced soon, the Italian Football Federation informed Ansa.
World leaders gathered in Rome on Tuesday for a United Nations summit on food security as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged "hard decisions" and heavy investment in agriculture. "For years, falling food prices and rising production lulled the world into complacency," Ban said, adding: "Governments put off hard decisions."
Britain criticised as obscene the presence of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe at this week’s global food summit in Rome, saying he had inflicted shortages on millions of his own people by his ”profound misrule”. Mugabe flew into Rome late on Sunday, making his first official trip abroad since elections condemned by Western leaders as fraudulent.
The rise of biofuels is not only adding to the global food price crisis but also poses a risk for peasants, pushed off their land to make way for energy crops, a report prepared for this week’s food summit said. The use of food such as maize, palm oil and sugar to produce fuel has been blamed in part for record high commodity prices.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe flew into Rome for a global food summit on Sunday, his first official trip abroad since elections condemned by Western and opposition leaders as fraudulent. A British Foreign Office spokesperson said: ”It is a matter of concern to us and we would prefer that he did not attend.”
Italian seven-time former world champion Valentino Rossi, riding a Yamaha, won his home grand prix at Mugello for the seventh time in a row on Sunday. Australian reigning world champion Casey Stoner took second place with Spaniard Dani Pedrosa in third.
It has been described as a global crisis pushing 100-million people into hunger, threatening to stoke social and political turmoil and set the fight against world poverty back by seven years. Now, the food price crisis will be tackled by world leaders, who meet in Rome next week to seek ways of reducing the suffering for the world’s poorest people.
In what might be Italy’s most exclusive restaurant, security is understandably tight. On reservation, guests are subjected to a background check. They are admitted in groups, their cellphones and bags confiscated, and they then submit to metal detector tests.
The United Nations food agency warned on Monday that war-torn Somalia could plunge into an acute humanitarian crisis if the unrest, drought, soaring prices and weak currency escalate. ”The humanitarian situation in Somalia is deteriorating quickly due to soaring food prices, a significantly devalued Somali shilling and worsening drought,” the agency said.
South African Hennie Otto secured a maiden European Tour victory after a one-stroke triumph over Briton Oliver Wilson in the Italian Open on Sunday. Otto fired a closing-round 69 for a 25-under par tally of 263, one stroke clear of Wilson, who carded a bogey-free 64 on the Castello di Tolcinasco course.
Roger Federer settled a score with his bogey player Guillermo Canas on Tuesday, easing his way into the third round of the Rome Masters with a 6-3 6-3 victory. Canas went into the game as one of the few players on the tour to hold a winning record against the world number one, but Tuesday’s result evened things up at three victories apiece.
Andy Murray’s Scottish temper flared as he defended his mother’s honour before his opponent Juan Del Potro of Argentina retired in tears with back pain at the Rome Masters. ”I got a bit of emotion into the match,” said the 16th-seeded Murray after advancing 5-7, 6-4, 1-0 into the second round on Monday night. ”I told him he better watch his mouth.”
The exhumed body of Padre Pio, a saint considered a miracle worker by his devotees, attracted thousands of pilgrims on Thursday when it went on display 40 years after his death. Padre Pio is one of the Catholic Church’s most popular saints and during his lifetime the Italian monk was said to have had the stigmata.
Record high oil prices over a barrel are slowing world economic growth, John Lipsky, first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said on Monday. ”It’s dampening growth — that’s for sure, but of course it is benefiting exporters,” he said. ”It’s going to slow growth as we’ve said before. It’s one of the many factors this year.”
Italians on Tuesday got their first taste of life under their new government as Silvio Berlusconi moved to appease the newly powerful Northern League with pledges of lower taxes, more police and camps for jobless foreigners. ”One of the things to do is to close the frontiers,” he said in a TV interview.
Silvio Berlusconi has won his third Italian election with a bigger-than-expected swing to the centre right, but the media magnate said it would not be easy to solve deep economic problems. Votes were still being counted on Tuesday, but with Berlusconi’s victory clear on Monday evening, centre-left leader Walter Veltroni called to concede defeat.
Self-made billionaire Silvio Berslusconi looked set to secure a third term as Italian prime minister on Monday, with exit polls predicting a narrow win for his conservative coalition in general elections. The exit polls, which came moments after voting ended, predicted the 71-year-old media magnate’s centre-right coalition would win.