Lizzy Davies
PARIS/ATHENS/BERLIN/ROME: When Maria Demeova sat down on her bus to work and glanced at newspaper headlines about ...
Published 26 Oct, 2013 06:58am
ROME/BERLIN: European countries should learn from Italy and establish penal codes “fit for the mafia” to get to...
Published 22 Oct, 2013 07:22am
ROME: Italy's supreme court is due on Tuesday to consider Silvio Berlusconi's final appeal against a tax fraud...
Updated 30 Jul, 2013 06:46am
ROME: As the breeze swept in under the cafe’s parasols and the sky darkened over Rome, waiter Apu Haq exchanged...
Published 02 Jun, 2013 10:17am
ROME: Prosecutors have demanded that Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian prime minister and key backer of the...
Updated 15 May, 2013 08:20am
AS the Sistine Chapel chimney spewed out clouds of very black smoke on Tuesday night, Federico Lombardi, the Vatican’s spokesman, received a phone call from a journalist. How had the cardinal electors managed to
Published 14 Mar, 2013 03:35am
MAKING bespoke clothes is tricky when you don’t know who will wear them. But Gammarelli, the Roman tailor that has dressed every pope since 1922, gets around that by catering for every eventuality.
Published 06 Mar, 2013 12:00am
ROME: In a classroom in central Rome, the topic of discussion was the Italian elections, and on the whiteboard were scrawled English words. Among them was the phrase “least worse”. Amid lengthy
Published 23 Feb, 2013 11:02pm
SAN Giovanni in Persiceto, a northern Italian town just 14 miles (22.5 kilometres) from Bologna in the wealthy industrial region of Emilia Romagna, never used to have many problems.
Published 22 Feb, 2013 12:00am
ROME: A stagnating economy, corruption, organised crime, political apathy, misogyny, youth unemployment... The person elected to run Italy next weekend will have a formidable to-do list
Published 21 Feb, 2013 11:11pm
ENZA Miceli received a call [in December] from her children’s school asking her to come in for an appointment. Her husband was abroad. So Miceli, 44, a call centre worker, asked her supervisor if,
Published 01 Feb, 2013 10:01pm
AMIR Issaa, a 34-year-old Italian hip-hop artist, has never conformed to stereotype. He has written about his Egyptian father going to jail and about the fraught nature of Italy’s integration process.
Published 23 Jan, 2013 12:00am
LATE in the 19th century, while investigating chicken cholera, Louis Pasteur infected some birds with bacteria that...
Published 23 Jul, 2010 12:00am
PARIS A French property tycoon enraged at his government`s plans to ban women from wearing the full veil in public...
Published 16 Jul, 2010 12:00am
PARIS Most reality television shows keep their aspirations modest good ratings, plenty of gossip and at least one...
Published 11 Jun, 2010 12:00am
IN May last year, as he was strolling down a sidestreet in the heart of Paris`s Latin Quarter, Alexandre de Nunez...
Published 06 Jun, 2010 12:00am
HE was Good King Henri a leader who slept in barns, devoured chicken stew and brought an era of peace and prosperity...
Published 15 May, 2010 12:00am
AS the crowds trickled through the Sully wing of the Louvre one recent afternoon, a stocky, middle-aged Frenchman...
Published 16 Apr, 2010 12:00am
PARIS For the past 50 years, the venerable Jeanne d`Arc has had a career worthy of her name. She has toured the...
Published 11 Jan, 2010 12:00am
FRENCH women could be banned from wearing the full Islamic veil in public under legislation to be proposed by ...
Published 24 Dec, 2009 12:00am
