Stories by John Hooper
SILVIO Berlusconi stepped out of a shiny black limousine on May 9 to begin serving his sentence for tax fraud at a...
Published 11 May, 2014 07:53am
ROME: Silvio Berlusconi - never one for sticking to the script - seems bent on inverting the process that Karl Marx...
Updated 30 Nov, 2013 08:16am
BARCELONA: Spain’s embattled prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, already beset by political and economic difficulties,...
Updated 26 Jul, 2013 07:12am
IT was like a scene from a film, said Arif Mohamed. He was sitting in a Jeep hemmed in by police officers on either side. They planned to whisk him to the airport for immediate deportation to his native Sri Lanka.
Published 07 Feb, 2013 08:01pm
DESPITE its status as Italy`s second largest city and capital of fashion and finance, Milan`s rulers fear the city`s...
Published 10 Jul, 2010 12:00am
DOZENS of Italian women who have had relationships with Roman Catholic priests or lay monks have endorsed an open...
Published 29 May, 2010 12:00am
COULD Italy be teaching us something? The question is prompted by the recent celebrations — there really is no other...
Published 26 Jan, 2010 12:00am
ROSARNO in southern Italy had, by Sunday, been turned into what one politician termed the world`s only entirely ...
Published 12 Jan, 2010 12:00am
ROME It measures up to 35cm in diameter and has an elevated rim of 1-2cm. It must contain tomato, basil and genuine...
Published 11 Dec, 2009 12:00am
ROME It is a problem many a company faces in these tough times how to replace older - and costlier - workers with...
Published 22 Nov, 2009 12:00am
THE Italian government is facing an outcry from art lovers and historians following the discovery that one of the...
Published 25 Oct, 2009 12:00am
ITALY`S prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has admitted for the first time that women were brought to his home by a...
Published 12 Sep, 2009 12:00am
ITALY`S prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi has launched an all-out attack on Italian and international media which...
Published 31 Aug, 2009 12:00am
THE Vatican and Catholic politicians on Friday reacted with dismay to a decision by Italy`s drugs agency to approve...
Published 02 Aug, 2009 12:00am
“EXCUSE me, but what are you doing?” Italians phrase things so delicately. Even this one, who was cradling a...
Published 06 Jul, 2009 12:00am
ROME When he was buried - at the insistence of the Catholic church in unconsecrated ground - Galileo Galilei left...
Published 24 Jan, 2009 12:00am
ROME: When he was buried – at the insistence of the Catholic church in unconsecrated ground – Galileo Galilei left...
Published 24 Jan, 2009 12:00am
THE sons of the Sicilian mafia`s jailed “boss of all bosses”, Bernardo Provenzano, on Monday made an emotional ...
Published 03 Dec, 2008 12:00am
ROME Earlier this year, many Italians were puffing out their chests as Turin-born Carla Bruni became Madame Nicolas...
Published 16 Nov, 2008 12:00am
ROME: Earlier this year, many Italians were puffing out their chests as Turin-born Carla Bruni became Madame Nicolas...
Published 16 Nov, 2008 12:00am
