Giorgio Napolitano

* Broad-based government likely to be in place by next week * Berlusconi winner, Bersani broken man * Centre-left in turmoil By Barry Moody ROME, April 24 (Reuters) - Months of paralysing political deadlock seem close to an end in Italy with a new...

ROME -- Italy turned the corner on two months of political stalemate Wednesday by nominating center-left leader Enrico Letta as prime minister after inconclusive elections in February left parties struggling to form a government. Letta, 46, is set to...

* Letta, 46, is from moderate wing of Democratic Party * Surprise nomination for premier faces tough hurdles * Expected to govern with Berlusconi's centre-right * Says EU must move away from austerity By Gavin Jones ROME, April 24 (Reuters) - There...

* ECB lending, German Ifo data bolster rate cut expectations * European shares build on biggest jump in seven months * Euro hits to three-week lows vs dollar before rebound By Marc Jones LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) - European shares built on their best...

By John Balassi April 24 (IFR) - There are a few deals from Asia and Latin America already lined up to price Wednesday in the US high-grade bond market, which is currently at USD10.15bn in countable volume for the week. But market tone is fairly...

* ECB lending, German Ifo data bolster rate cut expectations * European shares build on biggest jump in seven months * Euro edges to three-week lows vs dollar By Marc Jones LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) - European shares built on their best day in...

MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's two-year debt costs fell on Wednesday to their lowest level since European Monetary Union in 1999 as the expected appointment of a new prime minister looked set to end two months of post-election deadlock. Bets the European...

TOP STORIES ----------- ROME - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano was set to name a new premier on Wednesday with Enrico Letta, deputy head of the centre-left Democratic Party, and veteran politician Giuliano Amato seen as front runners to head a...

•A story in the Chicagoland section Tuesday gave an incorrect name for a new charter school advocacy group. It is Charter Parents United. •The name of Italian President Giorgio Napolitano was misspelled in the news briefs published Sunday....

TOP STORIES ----------- PROVIDENCE - The wife of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect is assisting authorities and in absolute shock that her husband and brother-in-law were accused of the deadly blasts, her lawyer said on Tuesday. - - - -...

"Any donkey can conduct, but to make music is difficult," Riccardo Muti told the young members of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago at an open rehearsal last week at Symphony Center. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director was quoting his famous...

TOP STORIES ----------- TORONTO - Canadian police said on Monday they had arrested and charged two men with an "al Qaeda-supported" plot to derail a passenger train. - - - - BOSTON - Prosecutors charged Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday with carrying out...