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Quinoa, amaranth: Ancient grains hold promising future

Switching from meat to plant-based proteins could help meet rising food demand while protecting the planet and human health, according to the EU-funded 'PROTEIN2FOOD' project.

19/06/2017

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Milan Fashion Week: Tribute to Gianni Versace

19/06/2017

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Takeaways: Ancient crops, future food

Vegetable proteins can be an alternative to meat in diets Today’s intensive meat production is polluting the environment Plants like quinoa and amaranth offer similar nutritional values FAO predicts

19/06/2017

Italy

Italy and Spain rescue more than 1,000 stranded migrants in two days

Warm weather provides optimum conditions at sea for migrants trying to reach European shores

17/06/2017

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Rome: protesters call for changes to pay

'Respect!' chant protesters in Rome as they call for changes to pay for occasional work.

17/06/2017

Sci-Tech

Caractacus Potts and the mothers of invention in Venice

Europe acknowledges it inventors

17/06/2017

Italy

Rome mayor Raggi urges halt to migrant arrivals

Virginia Raggi of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement has asked the Italian government not to send more asylum seekers to the capital

14/06/2017

Italy

G7: US deals climate agreement blow

Washington refuses to sign up to a G7 statement on climate change.

12/06/2017

Italy

Top Italian football manager takes cycling challenge after relegation bet

FC Crotone manager Davide Nicola is making good on a promise to cycle the length of Italy after his team avoided relegation on the final day of the season.

12/06/2017

Italy

'Huge defeat' for 5-Star in Italy's local elections - exit polls

Italy's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement looked set to suffer a severe setback in the country's local elections

12/06/2017

Italy

Anti-G7 protesters rally in Bologna

Anti-G7 protesters rallied in the Italian city of Bologna on Sunday (June 11) during a meeting of Group of Seven ministers.

11/06/2017

Italy

Italy’s vaccine sceptics to ‘apply for asylum in Austria’

10/06/2017

Earth News

From Computers to Como

Inspired by his father’s collection of vintage Hermès ties, Luca Maselli ditched the banking world for the world of bespoke neckwear.

09/06/2017

Italy

Silvio Berlusconi a 'traitor', says jailed Mafia boss

09/06/2017

Italy

London attacker's mother says British Imams 'are right' not to pray at his funeral

07/06/2017

Italy

Mafia boss 'entitled to a dignified death'

05/06/2017

Italy

Hundreds of football fans hurt in Turin stampede

04/06/2017

Earth News

Gucci shows off 2018 look in renaissance splendour of Galleria Palatina

Gucci's 2018 collection has been unveiled to an invited audience in Florence

31/05/2017

Italy

Massive migrant rescue off Italy as G7 ended

28/05/2017

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Charity highlights plight of migrants at G7

While G-7 leaders were working on their final joint communique on Saturday (27 May), the British charity Oxfam staged a protest to draw attention to migrants, displaced people and…

28/05/2017

Italy

G7 summit ends in deadlock over climate change

27/05/2017

Italy

No deal on climate change at G7 summit in Sicily

Climate change remains a sticking point, but some progress is made on trade at the G7.

26/05/2017

Italy

Britain's May gets G7 support in fight on terror

26/05/2017

Italy

Protesters kept away from G7 but message getting across

26/05/2017

Italy

G7 summit: leaders to clash on trade and climate change

26/05/2017

Sport

Valentino Rossi hospitalised after motocross fall at home

Nine-times motorcycling world champion Valentino Rossi has suffered minor injuries after falling while doing motocross at home.

26/05/2017