Credit:Gaurdian Rome’s Fiumicino airport has defended its security procedures after a drunk Norwegian tourist fell asleep on a baggage belt and travelled 160 feet before being identified by an X-ray scanner. Details:
Credit: Speigel Germany By Hans-Jürgen Schlamp REUTERS Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is seeking the limelight yet again. Silvio Berlusconi had Italy in his grip for two decades before personal and political crises forced him to step aside. Opponents may hate him and supporters may admire him, but one things seems […]
Daily Telegraph: “We must make it clear to Mr Monti that we Germans will not shut down our democracy to pay Italian debts,” said Alexander Dobrindt, secretary-general of Bavaria’s Social […]
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New Egypt-based Islamic TV channel caters to fully veiled women Washington Post Conservative Islam and its most visible hallmark, the niqab, appear to be on the rise on Egypt’s cultural scene as well, and the launch of Maria TV is an attempt to cater to that growing segment of society. A decade ago, the […]
Obama Ramadan 2012 message Examiner.com The United States continues to stand with those who seek the chance to decide their own destiny, to live free from fear and violence, and to practice their faith freely. Here in the United States, Ramadan reminds us that Islam is part of the fabric of our […]
KRAUTHAMMER: Islamic uprising, not Facebook revolution Santa Rosa Press Democrat Post-revolutionary Libya appears to have elected a relatively moderate pro-Western government. Good news, but tentative because Libya is less a country than an oil well with a long beach and myriad tribes. Popular allegiance to a central national … See all stories on […]
GENEVA—Fifty-four migrants trying to reach Italy died of thirst when their inflatable boat ruptured in the Mediterranean, according to testimony from the sole survivor, the UN refugee agency said. The […]
They have been closely guarded for more than 30 years, but guidelines on how to deal with divine apparitions of the Virgin Mary and “supernatural phenomena” have now been released […]
The ‘Vatileaks’ scandal has lifted the lid on a world of Catholic clerical intrigue and rivalry in the Holy See. A British diplomat, sent as Her Majesty’s representative to the […]
Introduction Islam is today the second-largest religion in Italy by number of adherents, yet it remains unofficial in the eyes of the Italian state. Unlike the Catholic Church – formally […]
Italy’s foreign minister said Friday that Rome wanted Britain to communicate further details on its failed Nigeria rescue bid “in the next hours”. Giulio Terzi di Sant’Agata said after talks […]
Falcons are to be introduced in the skies over the ancient Roman Colosseum in a bid to scare away birds that are pecking away at the 2,000-year-old stone facade. Seagulls, […]
Israeli Police Restrict Entry of Worshipers into Al-Aqsa Mosque Occupied Palestine: JERUSALEM, February 21, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli police Tuesday imposed restrictions on entry of Palestinians under 40 years of […]
Source: SOEREN KERN, Right Side News. The southern Italian island of Sicily is about to become the proud new owner of a multi-million euro mega-mosque. The mosque, to be built in the medieval town of Salemi in southwestern Sicily, is being paid for by the oil-rich Persian Gulf Emirate of […]
Italian police are trying to solve the mysterious disappearance of a 3.5 ton statue of a saint which has stood on the seabed off the coast of Calabria since 2007. […]
[ Italica – Sabrina Patota ] – Italy’s new premier Mario Monti has just taken office and among the social reform of his new government there is a proposal known in labour literature as gender-based taxation or GBT. This reintroduces the debate on “why it is useful to tax women […]
With the global appetite for olive oil on the increase, unscrupulous producers are meeting the demand by mixing in cheaper oil from Greece, Spain, Morocco and Tunisia and passing it off as top-end extra virgin oil. Read more
An Italian couple are to become the world’s oldest divorcees, after the 99-year-old husband found that his 96-year-old wife had an affair in the 1940s. The Italian man, identified by lawyers in the case only as Antonio C, was rifling through an old chest of drawers when he made the […]
As the confidential correspondence of popes, princes and potentates, the Vatican Secret Archives have been jealously guarded for centuries. But now 100 of the most historically significant documents held by the […]