Friday 03rd of September 2010
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- NEW INDUSTRY MINISTER 'NEXT WEEK' SAYS PREMIER
 (ANSA) - Rome, September 3 - A new industry minister will
be named next week, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said
Friday.
"I shall submit the name of a new industry minister to
President (Giorgio) Napolitano next week," Berlusconi said in
the wake of criticism that he has been filling in for too long
and allegedly not doing enough.
Business leaders and politicians including Napolitano have
this week called on Berlusconi to find someone to take over the
industry portfolio.
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- SUPERENALOTTO JACKPOT UP TO 128.5 MILLION EUROS
 (ANSA) - Rome, September 3 - Italy's popular SuperEnalotto
lottery is still offering the world's biggest jackpot, with
128.5 million euros (5 million) now up for grabs in Thursday
night's draw.
The current jackpot is the third-highest ever in Italy.
The big payout has now failed to come up in the last 91 of
the thrice-weekly draws.
This is hardly surprising as betters have only a one in 622
million chance of claiming the prize.
SuperEnalotto fever has been gripping Italy with bets up a
total of 50% for the last four draws.
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- RUGBY: MAGNERS REVAMP GOOD FOR GAME, NOT JUST US, SAY ITALY
 (ANSA) - Rome, September 3 - The entry of two Italian sides
into the Magners League is good for rugby as a whole, not just
the Azzurri, the head of the sport's national federation here
said before Benetton Treviso and Aironi's historic debuts on
Saturday.
The Italian Rugby Federation (FIR) negotiated their entry
into the tournament for Welsh, Irish and Scottish clubs -
formerly known as the Celtic League - from this season in a bid
to raise the standard of club rugby that the nations' best
players face.
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- TORRE DEL GRECO CORAL GETS STAMP
 (ANSA) - Rome, September 3 - The famed red-coral jewelry
from the town of Torre del Greco near Naples is to be celebrated
in a postage stamp.
The 0.60-euro stamp showing a coral twig and a 19th-century
bracelet will come out on September 30, the Italian Post Office
said Friday.
Coral has been harvested and worked at Torre del Greco since
ancient Greek times.
photo: a cameo made in 1905 read more
- SISTINE CHAPEL POLLUTION 'TOO HIGH'
 (ANSA) - Vatican City, September 3 - The level of
atmospheric pollution in the Sistine Chapel is too high and the
masses who walk through it each day threaten the priceless art
there, the director of the Vatican Museums said Friday.
The number of visitors is "excessive", climate controls
"inadequate" and there is an "insufficient" capacity to remove
pollutants, Antonio Paolucci told Vatican daily L'Osservatore
Romano.
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- SOCCER: INTER BANK ON BENITEZ AFTER MOURINHO COMEBACK HINT
 (ANSA) - Milan, September 3 - Inter Milan Chairman Massimo
Moratti stressed Friday that he was banking on new coach Rafa
Benitez after treble-winning boss Jose' Mourinho hinted he might
come back to the Italian club one day.
Mourinho left for Real Madrid in May saying he had nothing
more to achieve with Inter, having led them to an unprecedented
Champions League-Serie A-Italian Cup treble last season.
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- ARTS GUIDE: EXHIBITS IN ITALY
 (ANSA) - Rome, September 3 - The following is a city-by-city
guide to some of Italy's art exhibitions:
FLORENCE - Uffizi and Palazzo Pitti: Caravaggio and
Caravaggeschi in Florence, 100 works including two recently
attributed to the master; until October 10.
- Palazzo Pitti: Vinum Nostrum. The Art, Science and Myths
of Wine in Civilisation; from prehistoric winegrowing to
Dionysus cult, Etruscan, Roman use; show features oldest
surviving wine container, on loan from Georgia; until April 30,
2011.
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- RENATO GUTTUSO CELEBRATED IN PARMA SHOW
 (ANSA) - Parma, September 3 - An exhibition celebrating the
life and work of renowned 20th-centurty Italian artist Renato
Guttuso is opening shortly near the central city of Parma.
The retrospective, a foretaste of next year's celebrations
marking 100 years since his birth, will bring together 65 works
by Guttuso (1911-1987).
Some little-known paintings will be featured but the
exhibition also counts a number of the artist's masterpieces.
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- MOTOGP: ROSSI FOURTH FASTEST IN SAN MARINO PRACTICE
 (ANSA) - Rimini, September 3 - Italy's MotoGP world champion
Valentino Rossi registered the fourth fastest time in free
practice on Friday ahead of Sunday's San Marino Grand Prix.
The Yamaha rider clocked a best time of one minute 35.539
seconds, 0.767 of a second behind the pace set by Spaniard Dani
Pedrosa on a Honda.
Pedrosa's Italian team mate Andrea Dovizioso recorded the
second top time.
Runaway championship leader Jorge Lorenzo, Rossi's Yamaha
team-mate, was third fastest.
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- MOTOGP: ROSSI PLAYS DOWN CHANCES OF SAN MARINO HAT-TRICK
 (ANSA) - Rimini, September 3 - MotoGP world champion
Valentino Rossi has played down his chances of claiming his
third San Marino Grand Prix win in three years on Sunday, saying
he is still not fully fit.
The Yamaha rider has yet to win a race since returning to
competition in Germany in July just six weeks after he broke his
right leg in a nasty accident in practice at the Italian Grand
Prix, although he has always been in the top five.
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