Italy

Obituary: Andrea Pininfarina

guardian.co.uk     7 hrs ago          

Third generation of the family firm pre-eminent among Italian car designers Andrea Pininfarina, who has died aged 51 in a traffic accident in Turin, presided over the most famous and prestigious name in Italian automobile...                    

Dame Alison Munro: Forthright civil servant and High Mistress of St Paul's Girls' School

independent.co.uk     7 hrs ago   1 related          

Alison Munro was a Renaissance woman, all right – a highly successful senior civil servant, a brilliant international negotiator, a reforming and much-loved High Mistress of St Paul's Girls' School, in west London, chair...                    

Ouch! Tilda Swinton reveals a painful-looking bunion

thisislondon.co.uk     9 hrs ago          

Everyone has their off day, even the well-groomed Tilda Swinton. The glamorous British actress revealed a painful-looking bunion on her swollen left foot as she arrived at the Late Show With David Letterman in New York...                    

The Line Forms Here: Italy To Pay Libya 'Reparations' For Colonialism

sigcarlfred.blogspot.com     9 hrs ago   9 related          

The fine print: Perhaps more crucially for voters at home, Berlusconi received a written assurance from Gaddafi that his country will do more to stem the tide of illegal immigrants crossing the Mediterranean from Libyan...                    

Alitalia Unions Are Given Deadline

wsj.com     5 hrs ago   2 related          

By Luca Di Leo and Guglielmo Valia Word Count: 362 | Companies Featured in This Article: Alitalia, Piaggio ROME -- Italian government officials gave Alitalia SpA's labor unions a one-week deadline to accept deep job cuts,...                    

Sudan Catholics turn to Darfur saint (Reuters)

yahoo.com     6 hrs ago   2 related          

By Andrew Heavens and Skye Wheeler 10 minutes ago KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Josephine Bakhita, a former slave who died in 1947, has risen from obscurity to become the first saint from Darfur in western Sudan, a region...                    

Down-staged liver cancer associated with good post-transplant outcomes

genengnews.com     9 hrs ago          

EUREKALERT Contact: Sean Wagner swagner@wiley.com Patients with liver cancer can become viable candidates for transplantation if their tumors respond to treatment, a new study suggests. This report is in the September...                    

Daughter in coma for 16 years... but Italian health chiefs refuse family's wish to turn off life...

dailymail.co.uk     6 hrs ago          

Italian health officials have defied a court order and refused to switch off life support for a woman in a 16-year coma. Eluana Englaro, 35, has been in an irreversible coma since a car crash in 1992. Her father Beppe...                    

Rice set for historic Libya visit

eleconomista.es     9 hrs ago   74 related          

Italy and Libya to sign landmark compensation accord (30/08) Italy's Berlusconi arrives in Libya to sign pact (30/08) By Sue Pleming LISBON (Reuters) - Condoleezza Rice travels to Libya onFriday, the first trip there by a...                    

MEMC Electronic Materials Inc.: Silicon Peaks & Valleys

penton.com     10 hrs ago   2 related          

Wafer manufacturer records 6% sales increase in spite of production setbacks. Because as companies like MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. know full well, things are bound to go wrong every once in a while -- and sometimes...                    

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