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The shortlist for the world's top international television animation competition, Cartoons On The Bay, was unveiled on Wednesday in Salerno, near Napl…
Sicilian crime writer Andrea Camilleri has been ranked alongside the masters of the genre in a list published by British newspaper The Daily Telegraph…
An image of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa clutching coloured recycling bags was unveiled Wednesday in a fresh appeal to Naples residents to start diff…
Lovers of traditional Sicilian cuisine will soon be able to dine and stay at a country property that once belonged to Italy's bloodiest Mafia boss.The…
Priests and trainee clergymen will soon be shooting hoops and slam dunking in the name of the Catholic Church as the Vatican gears up for a new basket…
Last year's Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca is facing a two-year ban because of the suspiciously low level of hormones found in his body after he…
The launch of Italy's glitziest and most hyped television event of the year - the week-long Sanremo song festival - didn't exactly transfix the nation…
With elections six weeks away, Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right formation maintained a healthy advantage over its main centre-left rival in opinion po…
A huge retrospective of the works of New York photographer Richard Avedon, the man responsible for revolutionising fashion photography, has opened in…
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Tuesday said Germany broke European Union rules by allowing the name 'Parmesan' to be used for a German cheese…
Skippers Giovanni Soldini and Vincenzo Onorato are the front-runners for this year's 'Helmsman of the Year' award, which will be handed out here Tuesd…
Italy coach Nick Mallett on Tuesday named his squad for Italy's fourth Six Nations match, against France in Paris on Sunday March 9. The only change f…
Former Bari coach Beppe Materazzi is in talks to become the next manager of Iran.''They asked me if I was available to coach the Persian national team…
Fiorentina's Romanian striker Adrian Mutu will be out for a month with a knee injury sustained in Sunday's 1-0 loss at Roma, doctors said Monday.The 2…
Italy picked up two (or three) Oscars at Sunday night's Academy Awards with Dario Marianelli winning the best score prize for Atonement and the husban…
Fiat boss Luca Cordero de Montezemolo weighed into a refereeing row on Monday by claiming that he had never seen as game refereed as badly as the one…
Italian consumer rights organizations on Monday threatened to stage a new spending strike to protest what they see as runaway inflation for goods of p…
Italy marked World Slow Day on Monday with a host of initiatives reminding people to ease off and savour the good things in life under the slogan ''sl…
Police in Bari arrested 24 people on Monday, dismantling one of the oldest and most feared mafia clans that threatened to use a pool of young 'kamikaz…
A 'gentleman thief' who presented his victims with red roses was nabbed in Genoa on Monday.Police said they had tracked down the man, 48, by following…