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The chairman of Italy's biggest company adopted the role of cheerleader for his crisis-wracked country and its new Prime Minister, Mario Monti, during the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. "Italy has had more than 68 years as a republic and voters have always asked for reform, but no government leader, lefty or righty, has been able to do it. Now, over the past six months, we got a package [of reforms] that hasn't been seen in 60 years," said Giuseppe Recchi, who chairs the board of partly state-owned energy conglomerate Eni SpA (E, ENI.MI), in an interview on the sidelines of the conference. 

Building Rome's newest metro line appears destined to become the slowest and most expensive construction project in Italian and European Union history and it risks not being finished, the Audit Court president said Thursday.

 For nearly three hours on Monday night, a large audience at the Arlington was thoroughly charmed by the sparkling wit, generous demeanor, and immense achievement of master director Martin Scorsese 

Italian ex-ultraleftist militant Cesare Battisti, convicted of several murders in his country and living in exile in Brazil, on Tuesday spoke of his upcoming new book at the anti-capitalist World Social Forum here Tuesday.