News Archive for October 2013
Here you can find articles published in October 2013. Return to full archive here-
01 October
- Berlusconi warns against 'traitors' in his ranks
- Judge orders new DNA test in Knox retrial
- Sainthood for Pope John Paul II in April
- 'We need to know what happened' - Kerchers
- Atheist ad campaign riles Italy's Catholics
- 'Government fall would be a mistake' - PDL MP
- Vatican bank disloses earnings for first time
- 'Clockwork Orange’ gang arrested in Italy
- Unemployment hits high again amid political crisis
- Man 'tortures’ ex for Facebook password
- Ligurian village gets first baby in 67 years
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02 October
- Letta tipped to defeat Berlusconi challenge
- New Zealander pays €2.9m for Italian island
- VIDEO: Submarine stunt baffles Milan
- Italy's buffaloes treated to 'jazz and massage'
- Calabrian mayor resigns after 'mafia pressure'
- 'Taxes in Italy are on a par with Sweden'
- Berlusconi abandons bid to topple government
- TV show mocks Italian MPs' English
- Letta sweeps up votes after Berlusconi U-turn
- Is now the end for Berlusconi?
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03 October
- 'Italy can't afford an artificial political crisis'
- Italy misses out in world university ranking
- Nutella? It's got your name on it
- Celebrities call for end to toxic waste near Naples
- Letta faces tough time ahead
- Refugee groups outraged as hundreds die at sea
- Chinese and Russian buyers eye Verdi's palace
- Italy calls for European help over refugee influx
- Photo of the day: Italians set vegan panino 'record'
- The man who survived Berlusconi's uprising
- Telecom Italia chairman resigns
- 300 feared dead after refugee boat sinks
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04 October
- Islanders rushed to help drowning migrants
- New painting 'proven to be Leonardo da Vinci's'
- Italian 'organ dealer' lynched in Madagascar
- Italian 'unspoiled paradise' up for sale
- VIDEO: 'Thieves use forks to fleece ATMs'
- Ex-mobster accuses brother in Knox retrial
- Italian senators tipped to oust Berlusconi
- 'The food keeps you coming back for more'
- Italian senators propose Berlusconi expulsion
- Pope tells couples not to go to bed angry
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07 October
- 'The Med cannot remain an open-air cemetery'
- Survivor recalls 'terror' of shipwreck tragedy
- One in ten Italian contracts is corrupt
- Woman 'kidnapped and raped' by priest
- Venice's gondolas 'to get GPS and number plates'
- Italians invited to whistle-blow on crime
- Berlusconi 'kamikaze' protests government exit
- Mafia targets 'war veteran' journalist
- 'Ferramonti was not a death camp'
- Rome is one of the world's friendliest cities
- Syrian refugees saved off Italian coast
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08 October
- Lake Garda's poisoned fish threaten restaurants
- Captain 'too calm' in Costa Concordia crash
- Italian bank plans cash boost amid 5,300 job cuts
- Verdi lives on in Italy after 200 years
- AC Milan forced to play in empty stadium
- Canaletto work returns to abbey after 270 years
- Foreigners in Italy hit by tax changes
- Irish clinch Giro d'Italia for 2014
- Human remains found aboard Costa Concordia
- Boost for Italy as deficit falls
- 'The dead keep the economy going'
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09 October
- Struggling Alitalia in last-gasp bid for survival
- Italians break underwater kiss 'world record’
- Barroso and Letta heckled in Lampedusa
- Tourism pushes Venice to 'tipping point'
- German made to clean child's bridge scribbles
- Long-lost Orson Welles film screened in Italy
- Italy to hold state funeral for shipwreck victims
- Outrage over Lampedusa Facebook page
- Italians are richer than the Germans
- 'Look beyond Europe to stop migrant deaths'
- Barilla boss denied award over gay remarks
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10 October
- 'Eritreans have no choice but to leave their country'
- Alitalia eyes deal to avoid default 'within days'
- Thieves attempt €200,000 Nutella heist
- Moroccan vendor praised by anti-immigrant party
- Italy kicks off festivities for Verdi's 200th birthday
- Tax fraud probe for Italy's ex-Masonic schemer
- Italians bin €8.7 billion of food each year
- The Italians fighting illness from toxic waste
- Migrant mother gave birth as she drowned
- Oil rig ship planned to remove Concordia
- Vatican calls rebel diocese to order
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11 October
- Alitalia in crunch talks to fend off bankruptcy
- Fifth of Italians against having black minister
- 'Italy struggles to accept its multi-cultural identity'
- Berlusconi squanders cash on beans and fish
- Juliet's breast disfigured 'from too much touching'
- 'Roma' Twitter account goes unwanted
- More Italian women drink beer than the Irish
- Berlusconi to do community service
- Ryanair 'ready' to take on Alitalia's routes
- Nazi war criminal dies in Italy
- Take the test Italians 'flunked'
- Vatican hunts for culprit who can't spell Jesus
- 'Sardinia feels like an ancient forgotten land'
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14 October
- British teen killed quad biking in Italy
- Kercher's DNA was not on alleged murder knife
- Italy plans refugee sea operation
- 'Lavish' bishop flies Ryanair for Pope talks
- 'Nazi should be burnt' - Jewish group
- easyJet creates over 400 new jobs in Italy
- Italian MPs among highest paid in Europe
- Sardinian 'rebels' redraw island map
- A Rabbi helps Italians find their Jewish roots
- Athlete banned for using 'fake penis' to cheat test
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15 October
- Alitalia shareholders back €300m capital boost
- US films dominate Rome festival line-up
- Viagra sales shoot up in Italy as price slashed
- Italy's far-right politicians to be 'cured' of racism
- Indonesian tycoon takes over Inter Milan
- Robbers flee after Naples bingo hall shoot-out
- Tourists face going hungry as waiters strike
- Italy's pampered pets get their own hotel
- Catholic group holds Nazi war criminal's funeral
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16 October
- Italy unveils draft budget to spark growth
- Italian cities are Europe's worst ozone offenders
- 'Coffee and chat' is the king of Italian socialising
- Italy looks set to send Nazi's body to Germany
- Italian invites bored Russians to trash his car
- Italy may criminalize Holocaust denial
- Italy is the worst in Europe for tax collection
- Exports rise as Italy tries to exit recession
- Parkinson's drug 'caused' pensioner's gambling
- Are priests and nuns extravagant spenders?
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17 October
- Tourist defaces Ponte Vecchio with nail polish
- 'Go pussy' gum on sale near Berlusconi's home
- Berlusconi’s party would be 'bankrupt' without him
- Viagra gum launches in Italy
- Italy at a loss over dead Nazi war criminal
- Bodies found at Missoni plane wreck - report
- Italy moves to abolish political party funding
- Milan council dissolved over mafia links
- Jewish group will adopt boat tragedy survivors
- The lawyer who backed a war criminal
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18 October
- Syrian refugees stranded at Milan rail hub
- Italian PM praises Obama over debt deal
- Pope sparks boom in the name Francis
- Rome prepares for a 'weekend of fire'
- Controversial 'gay kiss' gallery vandalized
- Style-conscious Italians cut back on fashion
- Monti quits party over budget dispute
- Woman tries to smuggle €80k stashed in nappies
- Italy convicts Captain Corelli's war criminal
- Young Italians invent a bright future
- Bergamo named world’s second-worst airport
- Maradona slammed with €39m tax bill in Italy
- 'Driving in Italy is not for the faint hearted'
- Italian police gear up for Rome protest
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21 October
- UBS banker arrested in Italy luxury hotel
- Doctors scam €1.5m from 'dead' patients
- Bank robbers use hoover to rob ATM
- Italian pensioner hit with a one cent bill
- 'Miracle' saves boy from bathtub lightning bolt
- Police seize mafia-made 'toxic bread'
- 'Bling bishop' meets with Pope for crisis talks
- Boat survivors banned from memorial service
- 'Failing to file your US tax return can be costly'
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22 October
- Protests mar ceremony for shipwreck dead
- Water boss held hostage after tap turned off
- Dad jailed for slapping son who refused to read
- Italians behind fake French wine scam
- Italy urges EU summit on immigrant action plan
- Man sets wife's face alight in murder attempt
- 'Fame-seeking’ cat-throwers spark outrage
- Four in ten Italians 'have never used the internet'
- 'Our film has nothing to do with Knox'
- Ten things that annoy Italians about the Brits
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23 October
- Tourists are a threat to Florence: Medici heir
- Italy is the 'naughtiest' in Europe
- Wolf terrorizes residents in Liguria
- British Airways considers Alitalia legal action
- Kerry meets Italian PM amid furore over spying
- Vatican launches its own cricket club
- 'Blonde angel' sparks call for Roma camp sweeps
- Pope chat prompts 'bling bishop' to take time out
- Berlusconi faces new trial for bribing senator
- Four charged with UK murder of Italian teen
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24 October
- Rebels without a cause: why Italy is angry
- Sophia Loren ends 39-year tax feud
- 'Life was better when I lived under Qaddafi'
- Morgue staff cut pacemakers from bodies
- Italy to lead G20 anti-corruption efforts
- Fury over Italian ham ad with naked woman
- Britain and US also spied on Italy: report
- How big are Berlusconi's legal woes?
- Politicians exposed for toilet trips and cheese
- Lampedusa mayor says EU snubs migrants
- Shipwreck passenger identified by remains
- 'I got into politics after I had an illegal abortion'
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25 October
- Bishops abandon their plush cars
- Berlusconi's fiancée sues over lesbian claims
- Angry Vespa driver bites off cop's finger
- Fake 'priest' caught with six kilos of cocaine
- Nearly 700 immigrants rescued off Sicily
- 'Italian bureaucracy works very well'
- Boost for economy as Italians hit the shops
- Letta admits he doesn't know if Italy was spied on
- VIDEO: Italians unveil 'strawberry picking' hand
- 26 October
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28 October
- Aung San Suu Kyi collects Rome citizenship
- Pensioner's lost €175,000 returned in full
- Man plunges to death after homophobia claims
- NSA 'spied on 46m calls in Italy'
- Business confidence dips in Italy as recovery drags
- Transsexual asks Church to approve marriage
- Over a million Italians earn a living from politics
- More young Italians create their own jobs
- 'You need Italian friends to get things done'
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29 October
- Daniel Barenboim to quit La Scala two years early
- Aqueduct explorers map Rome's 'final frontier'
- Italians jailed for attack on Tottenham fans
- Mafia arrests made after informant murdered
- Dog owner's testicles bitten off by pitbull
- Residents slam Italy's Vesuvius escape plan
- Woman arrested for pimping her daughter
- Doing business is easier in Rwanda than Italy
- More foreigners claiming Italian benefits
- 10 things that annoy the Brits about the Italians
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30 October
- Moldovan dancer was Concordia captain's lover
- Italy's trove 'worth more than Brits' crown jewels'
- Italian writes play about Lehman collapse
- Duomo seeks Russian cash for €15m restoration
- 'Tax cheats are enemies, not foreigners' - Kyenge
- ENI surprises with firm profits
- Pensioner's 'mummified' body found in closet
- Zidane's headbutt statue removed after protests
- Villagers outraged after artist pulls down church
- US spied on Vatican before conclave - report
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31 October
- Outcry over plans for Venice theme park
- Suicide prompts candle-lit vigil for gay rights
- Italian MPs twice as pricey as German MPs
- Landlord finds 20 dead black cats in freezer
- Italy's jobless rate hits record high
- Woman dies after falling into husband’s grave
- Italy busts ex-army staff child smuggling ring
- Lavazza calendar showcases top chefs
- 'Eritrea is spying on shipwreck survivors'
- Norway boss denies child trafficking ring
- Clashes erupt at Rome housing rights protest
- Man dies after pitbull bites off his testicles
- Alitalia chairman to resign after capital boost
- The artist who took away an Italian town's church
- Syrian man sets himself on fire in Rome - reports
- Vatican to poll Catholics on gay marriage - report