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As matter of fact, the association reports that in one year 1.3 billion kilos of sterile milk, 86 million kilos of curds and 130 million kilos of milk powder have been imported in the country and consumers don't know the exact origin of these products because the labels don't give any information about it.

A reality TV show contestant says that he posed as the boyfriend of Noemi Letizia, the aspiring model from Naples, after Silvio Berlusconi attended her 18th birthday party in April.

Italian officials say the death toll from a train explosion in Tuscany has risen to 19, with 25 people injured.

An all-star Michael Jackson tribute show? A Jackson family concert, minus Michael? An ABBA reunion? The death of the King of Pop has left 50 empty nights at London's 23,000-seat O2 Arena - and a heady mixture of business hope, hype and wishful thinking is already filling the gap.

Italian officials on Thursday unveiled 14 artifacts spanning from antiquity to the Middle Ages that were looted or stolen from Italy and recently returned by The Cleveland Museum of Art.

A gas-filled rail tanker derailed ploughing into homes killing at least 16 people in an Italian seaside resort town.

Jun 30 - A freight train carrying liquified petroleum gas derails in the Tuscan seaside town of Viareggio and explodes, killing at least 15 people and injuring 50.

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi attends a business meeting in Naples, Tuesday, June 30 , 2009.

A minimally invasive procedure to treat shoulder pain caused by tendonitis in the rotator cuff provides immediate and lasting relief, according to a new study.

Axle failure on a wagon carrying liquid gas caused this week's rail disaster in northern Italy, the country's transport minister told parliament Wednesday, as the death toll climbed to 16.

Iran's president canceled a last-minute call to attend an African Union summit in Libya on Wednesday amid a stir among African delegates, who complained the contentious Iranian leader would divert the conference's attention from Africa's pressing problems.

A former CIA agent on trial for the alleged kidnapping of a Muslim cleric and terror suspect in Milan acknowledged in an interview published Tuesday that he had a role in the operation but insisted he was only following orders.

A freight train derailed in the middle of the night in northern Italy, setting off an explosion and a fire that killed at least 13 people and sent 50 others to the hospital, many with severe burns, officials said Tuesday.

The British Travellers polled: 14% said they never brushed up on local driving regulations, 45% had misread a map and got lost, 38% had argued with their partner while at the wheel, and 11% had lost their temper with other drivers while on foreign roads. The British. Self Portrait is NOT very becoming.

Spike Lee did the Italian American Community a GREAT Injustice when he filmed his "Do the Right Thing" in the 1980s, wherein Spike portrays Italian Americans as racists, and approves the use of Slurs and Violence against Sal, an Italian Pizza Owner who declined one patron's request to add to Sal's Italian Wall of Fame, any photos of any other persons. Spike considered Sal's declining a customers the right to redecorate Sal's Parlor a justification for a Riot.

Iran's top legislative body confirmed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's victory in a disputed election after a partial recount on Monday, official media reported.

A new analysis of the incidence of breast cancer in Italy per 100,000 women between the ages of 0 to 84 from 2000 to 2005 shows a 72 percent spike above official estimates issued by the Ministry of Health, with the sharpest uptick of +28.6 percent found in the youngest group studied .

Chinese President Hu Jintao will attend next month's meeting in Italy between leaders of the Group of Eight nations and those of emerging economies, the Foreign Ministry said Monday.

Group of eight leaders will ask major emerging economies like India and China to adopt actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions "in an indicative range below business as usual," Japanese media reported on Sunday.

The Italian government passed a package of tax cuts Friday to help stem the loss of jobs and push the country out of its worst recession in decades.