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ANSA. taly is bracing for a sizzling weekend and health alerts have been issued for 19 cities due to the unusually high heat and humidity. (Read the article)
ANSA. Roberto Saviano, the Italian writer whose bestselling expose' of the Naples Mafia led to a life in police protection, is set to publish his second book. (Read the article)
ANSA. Palermo. Italian police on Thursday seized millions of counterfeit dollars, an arsenal of weapons and a fake police uniform from a top Cosa Nostra family. (Read the article)
ANSA. Pope Benedict XVI wore a broad-brimmed red straw hat to shield himself from the summer heat as he rode his 'popemobile' around St. Peter's square to greet pilgrims on Wednesday. (Read the article)
ANSA. Italy got its first woman astronaut Wednesday when a 32-year-old Italian Air Force pilot became the European Space Agency's first female pick. (Read the article)
TIMES ON LINE. Silvio Berlusconi faced calls to resign yesterday when a judge ruled that David Mills, the British tax lawyer, had given false testimony at two corruption trials to protect the Italian Prime Minister and his business empire. (Read the article)
ANSA. Italy's only woman foreign minister, Susanna Agnelli, was buried Monday at Monte Argentario, a village on the Tuscan coast where the Agnelli family had a home. She died in Rome Friday at the age of 87 after being hospitalised following a fall. (Read the article)
ANSA. Hundreds of fossilised teeth of a small shark-like creature have been found in the clay soil of the Chianti winegrowing country in Tuscany. (Read the article)
ANSA. Rome is to host a permanent council for Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation, the city's mayor, Gianni Alemanno, announced on Tuesday. (Read the article)
CORRIERE DELLA SERA. The race track will wind its way around more than four kilometres in the northern part of Rome’s EUR district, passing beneath the Palazzo dei Congressi and the Palazzo della Civiltà del Lavoro. Investments in organisation come to about 160 million euros and could generate almost 10,000 jobs. (Read the article)