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Italian women are considered the most elegant and fascinating in Europe but also the most sexually inhibited, according to a new poll out on Tuesday.S…
A Piedmont town is gearing up to wage war against dog owners who fail to pick up after their pet through the use of excrement DNA tests.Vercelli envir…
A homosexual couple caught kissing in front of the Colosseum will face trial for public indecency, their lawyer said on Tuesday.According to police, t…
The European hostages kidnapped in the Egyptian Sahara Friday are well and their lives are under no threat, Egyptian Tourism Minister Zoheir Garana sa…
McLaren failed in its appeal to have Lewis Hamilton reinstated as winner of the recent Belgian Grand Prix, leaving Ferrari's Felipe Massa just a point…
Italy's Adriano Malori won the under-23 time trial at the world cycling championships in Varese Tuesday.Malori, 20, beat Germany's Patrick Gretsch by…
Rome is celebrating one of its most famous political and military leaders, Julius Caesar (100-44 BC).A sweeping exhibition which opened in the Chiostr…
Production of Chianti is expected to drop some 15% this year over 2007 but the quality will be good, a leading expert said on Monday.''In Tuscany the…
Paris is joining celebrations for the 100th anniversary of Italian screen legend Anna Magnani this month with a host of events in honour of the Rome-b…
Only an emergency plan which includes cost-cutting measures will keep Alitalia from losing its operating license, the head of Italy's civil aviation a…
A group of foreign tourists including five Italians kidnapped in southern Egypt on Friday may have been freed, according to a number of media reports.…
Starting Tuesday, night clubs and discos will be obliged to post charts which will allow customers to calculate whether they are over the legal limit…
Juventus striker David Trezeguet had successful knee surgery Tuesday and will be out for some four months, doctors said.Former France striker Trezegue…
A frieze from the Parthenon has left a Palermo musem for a show in the new Acropolis museum in Athens.The frieze, showing a foot and parts of a dress…
Italian cheesemakers smashed their own world record for the second year running on Sunday when they made the longest ever plait of mozzarella cheese.T…
The five Italians kidnapped in Egypt Monday are from Turin, officials in the northwestern Italian city said.Three are women and two are men, an aide t…
Alitalia's license will be suspended in 3-4 days unless Italy's flight authority ENAC receives a new financial plan, ENAC chief Vito Riggio said Monda…
''That's what I wanted,'' said Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti after his team got its first league win of the season to lie four points behind leaders Int…
A cell crucial to wound healing could be tweaked genetically to 'grow' bones in crippled patients, a group of Italian researchers say. In a work pu…
The Italian economy this year will be in recession, inflation will rise and consumer spending will fall, according to the latest economic outlook from…