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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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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ITALY has begun airlifting migrants back to their point of departure after its southern outpost was swamped by hundreds of new arrivals.
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Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa seems to be taking on his job as finance minister of Italy with a combination of zeal and academic detachment.
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Italy makes its bid to qualify for next year's European Championship a lot more difficult Saturday, and England makes it much more likely.
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Italy warm up for their crunch group game with Scotland with another disjointed win over a determined and well-organised Portugal.
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ROME : Italy was in shock at the killing of a kidnapped journalist in Iraq, described by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as a return &quot;to the dark times of barbarism,&quot; but he pledged Italian troops would stay.
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Jacques Santini&#39;s shock resignation as Tottenham Hotspur coach has left the London club once again in a state of chaos and Saturday&#39;s 3-2 defeat at home to Charlton Athletic merely added to the gloom.
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Aided by global warming and globalization, Italy suffered the first outbreak of a tropical disease in modern Europe.
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"I have a sense of sickness and feel great solidarity with Neapolitans."  Images of the historic port city wallowing in its own filth have shocked Italians and embarrassed the ruling centre left coalition of Prime Minister Romano Prodi, which also holds office at the local and ... via Globe and Mail
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Itâs somewhat of a mystery why the Italian fashion industry continues to putter along while China, Eastern Europe, India and even France go whizzing past.
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Italy has had its worst tourist season this summer in 10 years, two associations of Italian hotels and restaurants, Federalalberghi and Confturismo, said.
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ROME  - Two Italians were killed in a landslide this weekend as fierce storms pounded the country, causing floods that slowed trains, cut off traffic and forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes.
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Traditional northern power Juventus is alone atop the Serie A standings after just two rounds, yet the most intriguing stories emerging in Italy so far this season are coming from the soccer-starved south.
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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.
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Residents of the Italian city of Naples torch piles of rotting rubbish amid a worsening refuse crisis.
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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.