Rome
ROME - Officials say Palermo's airport will stay closed until at least Sunday afternoon while awaiting equipment to remove a jet that landed off a runway.
ROME - World grain prices have surged since July, but are still one third lower than the 2008 peak, while supplies for 2011 are "adequate", the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) said Friday.
ROME - The number of chronically hungry people in the world dipped considerably below the 1 billion mark - the first drop in 15 years - thanks partly to a fall in food prices after spikes that sparked rioting a few years ago, U.N.
More News
- UN: No food crisis looms despite Russia wheat ban
- Berlusconi urges allies to get back in line
- Celebrated Russian seed bank fights for its land
- Italy grants holiday coupons to low-income families
- Travel industry courting 'Eat, Pray, Love' fans
- Doctors: Transplant advance in windpipe cancer
- Italy seeks private sponsors to restore Colosseum
- Berlusconi suffers 3rd gov't resignation in
- Italy farmers protest import of "blue" mozzarella
- Alitalia joins trans-Atlantic joint venture
- European stocks up ahead of key US jobs report
- World stock markets down on growth doubts
- World stocks down on Europe, China growth doubts
- Italy fears for Nutella with new EU food labels
- Brazil to lead agriculture boom as Europe imports
- Boosted supply of food staples pushes prices down: UN
- Italian makes cuts to dodge crisis
- Italian stocks up on budget cutbacks
- Italian gov't approves 24 billion in budget cuts
- Italian gov't approves euro24 billion in budget cuts
- Italian gov't: sacrifices needed to protect nation
- Ryanair fined millions for lack of aid to stranded passengers
- Italy central bank orders stop to new AmEx cards
- MLB exploring spring training in Italy
- Fiat says report of 5,000 job cuts is premature
- Report: Fiat to cut 5,000 jobs
- Alitalia cancels flights before airport strike
- World's shortest man, He Pingping, dies in Italy
- World's shortest man dies in Italy
- UN food agency welcomes any probe into Somalia aid
- Euro currency union showing strains
- Italy court orders Getty's bronze confiscated
- Italy minister defends boost for McDonald's burger
- Berlusconi casts doubt on cash-for-clunkers future
- Fiat workers strike over Sicily plant plans
