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Spain: If you become unemployed you will earn less in your next job

Unemployment has a negative impact on a worker's future salary if it continues for a long time, particularly in countries such as Spain, Italy and Portugal. This is the conclusion of a study carried out by ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Italy to liberalise wifi access from 2011: minister

Italy will liberalise public wifi access to the Internet from next year, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni said Friday, referring to a much-criticised law restricting wifi connections for security reasons.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 05, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Italian doctors give teenager artificial heart: hospital

Doctors in Italy implanted an artificial heart into a 15-year-old boy on Saturday, the first time the procedure has been performed on a child, the hospital said.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 02, 2010 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Undersea volcano threatens southern Italy: report

Europe's largest undersea volcano could disintegrate and unleash a tsunami that would engulf southern Italy "at any time", a prominent vulcanologist warned in an interview published Monday.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 5

US engineer defends Google in defamation trial

An American engineer sought to clear Google of defamation charges at a trial over the broadcast in Italy of video showing the bullying of a teenager with Down's Syndrome, a lawyer for the Internet search provider ...

Technology / Business

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Italy launches first clean hydrogen power plant

Italian power company Enel said Friday that it had started up a ground-breaking hydrogen-powered electricity plant producing no greenhouse gases.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

RU-486 abortion drug to be allowed in Italy

(AP) -- Italy has approved the use of the abortion drug RU-486, drawing fierce protests by the Vatican.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Vesuvius, the world's most closely watched volcano

Nearly 2,000 years after wiping out Pompeii, Mount Vesuvius is among the most closely monitored volcanoes in the world, its every shudder recorded.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

10,000 aftershocks follow Italy quake

Scientists have detected 10,000 aftershocks since last week's earthquake in Italy of which around 1,000 could be felt, a top expert said on Monday, warning that the tremors will probably get stronger.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Digging up evidence of 400-year-old global trade and wealth

French and Chinese blue glass, Dutch layered glass, Baltic amber: roughly 70,000 beads manufactured all over the world have been excavated at one of the Spanish empire's remotest outposts, the Santa Catalina ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mountain spine is a quake hotspot

Scientists said a killer earthquake that struck central Italy on Monday occurred in a notorious trouble spot and warned further powerful shocks in the coming months could not be ruled out.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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