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The Naples trash emergency erupted again Monday morning as scores of protesters clashed with police trying to clear a way to a dump at the centre of t…
Eight Italians were aboard a Venezuelan passenger plane which crashed into the sea near the Los Roques archipelago in the Caribbean on Friday, the Ita…
Fiat shares plunged on the Milan stock exchange at the end of the week despite the fact that the group bucked the general trend and posted strong sale…
Italians are flocking to Rome to see a show highlighting Italy's successful battle to reclaim plundered art treasures.The show, called Nostoi (Ancient…
An interim compromise solution has been found for a popular Italian wine which began the year without a name.The compromise was reached during a meeti…
Italian families can expect to spend over 1,000 euros more next year for food, utilities and fuel, according to the consumer rights group Codacons.Unl…
Post-holiday sales kicked off in Italy on Wednesday with retailers hoping to make up for a disappointing Christmas period, while consumer groups are p…
Turin, which has given the world Juventus, Fiat and solid chocolate, was named on Friday as the best city in Italy for childrenThe capital of Piedmont…
Italian car scrapyards recycled 85% of the cars they crunched up in 2007, according to the national federation of car scrapyards (CAR).Each year in It…
Consumer groups and trade unions urged the government to help struggling families after Italy's inflation rate rose to a four-year high of 2.6% in Dec…
Thousands of Italian children hunted out stockings on Friday ahead of Epiphany celebrations that half of Italians still see as an important part of th…
Guns are catching up with fireworks in Italy's love affair with blast-em-up New Year festivities, Italian police say.No one was killed by fireworks ag…
A blaze that broke out in a disused Roman factory late Thursday forced scores of squatting immigrants out into a freezing Roman night.None of the 100…
Naples awoke Friday to the now-familiar smell of smouldering rubbish after a night in which the fire brigade had to put out dozens of fires.Four city…
Italians spent 2.7 bln euros ($3.9 bln) on the traditional food and drinks consumed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, according to Italian farmers'…
The flu season in Italy is heading into full swing with the number of confirmed cases last week double that of the previous week, according to the Hig…
A cold snap hit northwestern Italy on Friday with snowfalls blocking several roads in Liguria and causing the partial closure of the port of Genoa.Sno…
An account of the Mafia's hold on Naples has been voted Book of the Year in the first annual literary poll by Italy's leading news programme.The book,…
A Turin fire chief had a fatal heart attack Thursday as he was about to be questioned by prosecutors investigating a steelworks blaze that killed seve…
Tensions threatened to explode in the Naples suburb of Pianura on Thursday as authorities struggled to find a temporary solution to the area's umpteen…