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Venice city council is hushing up the opening of a new high-tech bridge over the lagoon city's Grand Canal after opposition politicians threatened to…
Possible members of a consortium to rescue ailing national carrier Alitalia dodged questions after a three-hour meeting at advisor bank Intesa San Pao…
A CD of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi singing Neapolitan love songs may still make it onto the shelves in time for Christmas, his song-writing part…
Inter Milan coach Jose' Mourinho paid tribute to his predecessor Roberto Mancini after his new team beat Roma on penalties to lift the Italian Super C…
Ferrari has defended world champion Kimi Raikkonen after the Finn fell to third in the Formula One race as teammate Felipe Massa closed on leader Lewi…
A film by British director David Leland updating one of Italy's most famous literary works in the style of Hollywood gross-out movies is to open in It…
Medical teams are to test drivers for drugs at a police roadblock in a pilot scheme in an unidentified northern Italian city next weekend, the governm…
Italian household debt has doubled since the euro was introduced, a retail association reported on Thursday.Average household debt has risen by 93% in…
A new ice-cream flavoured with Italy's king of cheeses, Parmigiano Reggiano, is proving a smash hit in China, its inventors said Thursday.Italo-Chines…
The prehistoric mummy known as the Iceman was a shepherd and not a hunter, a new study from Germany claims.Saarland University experts came to the con…
The Mediterranean is the ''most invaded'' sea on earth, Italy's marine environment protection agency IRPA said Thurday.Two alien species now enter the…
A 55-year-old Indian woman living in northern Italy has given birth to quadruplets after returning to India for fertility treatment.The woman, who has…
The idea of an official visit by Pope Benedict XVI to China was ''entirely premature,'' the Vatican said Thursday.Responding to an invitation the bish…
An Italian businessman has been freed after five days in the hands of a kidnap gang in Venezuela.Guido Mancini, 53, a petrochemicals operator, thanked…
''It was a very nice feeling,'' World Cup hero Marcello Lippi said after the first match of his second term as Italy coach, a 2-2 draw against Austria…
Some of the finest masterpieces of Etruscan art are returning to Italy from Russia's Hermitage museum for a show starting next month in the heartland…
This year's extraordinary rise in pasta prices has been even higher than previously thought, the Italian Treasury said Wednesday.But the price of whea…
Members of Italy's Communist parties were up in arms on Wednesday after a Catania court took a 16-year-old boy away from his mother, allegedly because…
The lawyers of a suspect in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher said Wednesday they were considering legal action after a United States new…
The northern Italian city of Verona is in a flap about naming a street after a local hero who fought and died for Mussolini at the end of the Second W…