Once buoyant Italy wilts under cloud of gloom
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Ask most foreigners what comes to mind when they think of Italy and the answer is likely to contain words like style, art, fashion. But ask an Italian and the most likely answer will be "decline".
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For a dozen years, Naples and surrounding towns have periodically choked on their refuse, but the last two weeks have flared into a real crisis.
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VENICE, Italy  - One leaning tower is enough for Italy, according to local authorities in Venice who plan to reinforce the foundations of St. Mark's bell tower to stop it falling down.
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Never mind that the team has not lost a game this season, either in Serie A or the Champions League. Having registered just two wins and seven draws in the Italian league, the club is in crisis mode heading
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Italy's government looked on the verge of  collapse on Tuesday after an ally of Prime Minister Romano  Prodi deserted the centre-left coalition, depriving him of a  parliamentary majority.
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BORMIO, Italy -- Whether the Nations Team Event -- tried for the first time in championship competition here yesterday -- is destined for Olympic glory or the trash, only time and more races will tell.
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Piles of trash building up in Naples  have filled the air with a putrid stench and spoiled the view  for tourists, but the city's waste crisis may also be killing  its people.
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The flight of a convicted killer enjoying asylum in France has frustrated Italy's efforts to bring ex-guerrillas to justice and reopened wounds from an era when the Red Brigades terrorized the country.
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Italy has sunk down the list of the world&#39;s most competitive countries because of bureaucracy, infrastructures and high taxes, a report by the World Economic Forum has revealed.
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Romano Prodi's victory in a confidence  vote has given his center-left government a lease of life but  Italy appeared unconvinced on Thursday he can remain prime  minister long enough to deliver promised reforms.
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It was the head butt felt around the world, and it is still reverberating in Italy, at least in the realm of marketing.
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Italy has begun airlifting migrants back to their point of departure after facilities on its southern outpost were swamped by hundreds of new arrivals.
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Greece, whose European Championship triumph stunned football only two months ago, suffered a rapid fall from grace when they were beaten by Albania in their opening qualifier for the 2006 World Cup.
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The region is now feeling an autumn chill of slackening economies and warnings of further market upheaval.
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Working for a failing airline many Italians love to hate is never easy, but some harassed Alitalia staff say a dud privatization has pushed their working lives to a new low.
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There's a ray of sunshine in all that gloom and doom.
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The rubbish littering the streets of Naples is symptomatic of a deeper problem at the heart of Italian politics, says the BBC's David Willey.