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Italy's highest appeals court has ruled that two suspects in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher must remain in custody because of their ''…
A goalkeeper who played in the women's Serie C for her hometown of Favara, Sicily, will take her final solemn vows as a Franciscan nun later this week…
Juventus icon Alessandro Del Piero is hoping his recent form will get him back into the Italy squad for Euro 2008.''I'd really love to get to Euro 200…
Roma skipper Francesco Totti will make another surprisingly quick return from injury, the doctor who operated on his knee said Monday.''I found a perf…
THREE STEPS TO MAKING A PURCHASE
Step 1
A formal written offer is made and a deposit of 10% should be available to send as soon as the offer is acce…
Bolgheri's Tenuta dell'Ornellaia sold a bottle of Salmanazar for $33,600 (400 times its market value) at a Christie's auction in October.The one-of-a-…
Happy couples in Italy are forking out the equivalent of two years' salary to pay for their wedding day, a report by consumers' association Federconsu…
The new ''Benessere Valdera'' project proposes an online market for locally grown organic products. Thanks to an Internet portal, by the end of 2008 c…
Italy's only world heavyweight boxing champ, giant 1930s slugger Primo Carnera, has inspired a movie that aims to set the record straight about a man-…
Italy ended 2007 with a deficit/GDP ratio of 1.9% and a public debt/GDP ratio of 104%, Eurostat said Friday, confirming Italian data.The Eurostat figu…
An Italian who spent two months as a hostage in Iraq was on Friday sent to trial for illegally recruiting personnel for a foreign state.Salvatore Stef…
Italian police on Friday recovered three statues belonging to Colombian artist Fernando Botero, Latin America's most famous living artist, that were s…
A local health authority officer responsible for enforcing Italy's smoking ban was fined on Friday after police caught him in his office with a lit ci…
Industrial orders rose 14.3% in February compared with February 2007, Italian statistics institute Istat said Friday.Orders rose 2% between January an…
The trial of a former church custodian accused of faking an incident in which a statue of the Virgin Mary wept tears of blood began in the northern ci…
China has lifted its ban on the import and sale of buffalo-milk mozzarella from Italy, Italian Ambassador Riccardo Sessa said Friday.China's food safe…
Aeroflot may play a part in Alitalia's future even if the ailing Italian carrier is taken over by Air France, Italian premier-in-waiting Silvio Berlus…
Record numbers of Italians are travelling abroad for medical treatment, patient figures released on Thursday showed.Around 5,000 Italian 'health touri…
A surprise casualty of Italy's general election was the country's bewildering maze of multi-party politics which had made it an anomaly among Western…
Young teenagers - and especially girls - in Italy are drinking too much alcohol, a report by the Higher Institute of Health (ISS) revealed on Thursday…