LUCIANO Pavarotti has been hospitalised in stable condition with a fever in his home town of Modena, in northern Italy, officials and his manager said yesterday.

Luciano Pavarotti, who is battling pancreatic cancer, is working on a recording of sacred songs, his manager said today.

Luciano Pavarotti is getting a hand from God in his battle against pancreatic cancer, the tenor was quoted as saying in an interview published today in an Italian newspaper.

RENATA TEBALDI, the Italian soprano who was one of the biggest stars at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Italy’s La Scala, died yesterday. She was 82.

Renata Tebaldi, an Italian soprano who was one of the biggest stars at New York’s Metropolitan Opera and Italy’s La Scala, died today, her doctor said. She was 82.

A manhunt is underway in Italy today for the killer of a police officer gunned down during a document check.