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Consumer watchdog Codacons on Tuesday threatened ''the biggest shopping strike ever held in Italy'' in September if producers do not cut prices in a…
Italy's GDP fell 0.3% in the second quarter over the previous three-month period, its worst short-term performance since the last quarter of 2007,…
Any hopes Inter Milan had of signing Frank Lampard in the future all but vanished on Wednesday when the England midfielder extended his contract wi…
A British tourist on Wednesday complained to police after being presented with a 30-euro bill for three sandwiches at a bar in a Sicilian seaside…
Inter's Palermo-born Ghanian striker Mario Balotelli officially received his citizenship papers on Wednesday and said he was ''proud to an Italian'…
Italy's ever-growing number of holiday farms are expecting full occupancy for the mid-August Ferragosto holiday which marks the Feast of the Assumpt…
The seaside Abruzzo town of Vasto is celebrating the family of one its most famous exiles, Gabriele Rossetti, whose English-born offspring caused a…
The first international opera singing contest in memory of the late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti has drawn 250 contestants from 32 countries.…
Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday urged the Catholic Church in Latin America to fight against ''the plague of corruption and indifference'' in the reg…
Alitalia personnel will stage an unprecedented symbolic one-minute strike at midday on September 6, flight attendants' union SDL said Wednesday.…
Italian swimmer Federica Pellegrini on Wednesday won the 200 metre women's freestyle, breaking her own world record in the process and becoming the…
United States President George W. Bush conferred by phone on Tuesday with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on the crisis in Georgia, White House s…
Two Northern League senators on Tuesday began a campaign to make distilling northern Italy's famous Grappa spirit at home legal. Enrico Montani…
An estimated five million cars are expected to hit Italy's motorways during this coming weekend's Ferragosto holiday marking the Feast of the Assum…
In the future the army may be deployed to inspect worksites to ensure they respect safety codes and labor laws, Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa s…
An all-singing, all-dancing army of Christian volunteers are gearing up for a mass evangelization of Riccione, one of the most popular - and wildes…
Italy is ready to send troops to South Ossetia if the European Union decides to intervene in the conflict between Georgia and Russia, Foreign Minist…
Italian DJs on Monday pledged to help cut down post-disco road traffic deaths caused by drunk-driving following a horrific accident in Puglia that…
European Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani on Monday urged the proper application of European law relating to road safety after eight people di…
Italian fencer Valentina Vezzali on Monday won her third individual gold in a row in as many Olympic Games allow Italy to temporarily climb to fou…