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The Vatican on Friday played down the absence of Pope Benedict XVI from a list of the 100 most influential people in the world drawn up by the America…
SAT shareholders (management company for the Galileo Galilei airport) recently approved the company's 2007 budget.During the last year, proceeds equal…
Fair weather and relatively calm seas have encouraged the influx of illegal immigrants to southern Italian shores and a special airlifts were needed t…
AC Milan will do all it can to spoil cross-town rival Inter's party and keep it from celebrating its division title with two matches left in the seaso…
Valentino Rossi's joy for clocking the fastest time in Friday's practice sessions for the China Grand Prix was overshadowed by his Yamaha teammate Jor…
International focus is on the Tuscan city of Capannori for their differentiated trash collection and recycling centres.The city began their campaign '…
Italy's privacy watchdog on Wednesday ordered the national tax office to immediately suspend the publication on its website of personal information fi…
Outgoing health minister Livia Turco on Wednesday lifted the ban on embryo screening in assisted fertility procedures in a last-minute update to natio…
The age-old tourist tradition of feeding pigeons in Venice's St Mark's Square came to an abrupt end on Wednesday when a controversial city council ban…
Almost 900 migrants have landed on the southern Sicilian island of Lampedusa over the past week, sparking fears of a fresh immigration crisis.A boat c…
The world's first cloned horse has given birth to a foal, Italian animal-cloning pioneer Cesare Galli said on Tuesday.said both parent and child were…
In 2007, foreign sales by Tuscan companies grew 6.9%, confirming the positive result seen the prior year.However, the area's growth proved to be lower…
Italy's inflation rate remained high but stable in April, national statistics bureau Istat reported on Wednesday.Basing its estimate on preliminary da…
Millions of Italians are expected to take advantage of Thursday's May Day holiday by turning it into a long weekend break.The Autostrade motorways com…
Hollywood A-listers might not be as welcome on the red carpet at Rome's Film Festival under new plans for the event by the city's freshly appointed ma…
Italy's new government will be up and running within two weeks, Premier-elect Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday.Speaking to journalists on the sidelin…
Alitalia could find itself back in state hands if the European Union creates problems over the government's efforts to save Italy's troubled carrier,…
Consumer prices continued to climb in Italy this month and sector analysts expect to see the year-on-year inflation rate to hit 3.4% or 3.5% for April…
The Vatican on Tuesday launched an appeal to the world's Buddhists to collaborate with Catholics in the fight against global warming and the destructi…
Italian antipathy towards immigrants has almost doubled in the last year, outgoing Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said Tuesday.Presenting a new gove…