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Venice city council on Tuesday said it had no plans to make modifications to a new bridge over the Grand Canal despite the fact that people have been…
Spike Lee's new film about a Nazi massacre in Tuscany continued to stir controversy in Italy on Tuesday, after a village council decided to award the…
Pasta, trousers, soap and a radio were among the top choices of Italians asked what they would take with them if they were stranded on a desert island…
Illicit love affairs can lead to crippling migraines in headache sufferers and may even kill, Italian researchers warned Tuesday.A specific type of he…
Italian train company Trenitalia on Tuesday buckled under pressure from the government and animal rights activists by suspending a ban on 'big' dogs t…
A Rome court refused an appeal Tuesday to lift an arrest warrant for ex-Lazio icon Giorgio Chinaglia in a case of alleged threats and share-fixing dur…
Money from Italy's World Cup qualifier against Montenegro later this month will be used to set up a new research unit on Lou Gehrig's disease, the Ita…
Marina Berlusconi, the eldest daughter of Premier Silvio Berlusconi, is among the world's ten most powerful managers, according to an annual ranking p…
Air France and Lufthansa are now battling between themselves over who will be the partner of the 'new' Alitalia, according to the head of a group of I…
Unemployment in Italy jumped 20.6% in the second quarter, over the same three-month period in 2007, lifting the national unemployment rate by a full p…
The National Association of Magistrates (ANM) on Monday said it was ''fundamental'' for the Constitutional Court to do its job ''in peace'' after Prem…
Air France and Lufthansa would be equally valuable as a strategic partner in the new Alitalia, Welfare Minister Maurizio Sacconi said Monday.''Today t…
Fiat on Monday signed an agreement to acquire a two-thirds stake in Serb automaker Zastava - more than 50 years after the then-Yugoslav state auto fir…
Basking in the glory of his sixth premier class and eighth career Grand Prix title, Italy's Valentino Rossi now has set his sights on the few remainin…
Five Italians who were among the 11 foreign tourists and eight local guides taken hostage in southern Egypt ten days ago have been released unharmed,…
Freshly crowned World Cycling Champion Alessandro Ballan on Monday thanked team leader Paolo Bettini for giving him his head in the World Road Race Ch…
Italian fuels giant ENI confirmed on Wednesday that it has found natural gas reserves in the Sicilian Channel, some 20km off the southern city of Agri…
A Tuscan jail has formed Italy's first soccer team made up of jailers and inmates.The Massa Carrara jail will compete at the highest level of Italian…
British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, best known for his comic character Borat, was hauled into an Italian police station on Friday after causing havoc…
A law granting immunity to Premier Silvio Berlusconi was challenged on constitutional grounds Friday in a trial into alleged irregularities in the pur…