(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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(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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(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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(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

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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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