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Cheese-makers in this small town near Naples have outdone themselves in making the world's largest mozzarella cheese.The Sala Consilina specialists st…
Kimi Raikkonen is back in the running for the drivers' title, Ferrari said on Monday, adding that its rapport with the Finn was now comparable to the…
UEFA on Monday opened a disciplinary probe against AC Milan and its Brazilian goalkeeper Nelson Dida for an incident at the end of last week's 1-0 def…
Alberto Gilardino welcomed his first two Serie A goals this season in AC Milan's Sunday night 1-5 thrashing of Lazio, saying he was on the way back fr…
A life-size rhinoceros is among the stars of a new exhibition celebrating the Surrealist genius of 20th-century American artist Man Ray and contempora…
The cell in which a monk turned on his torturer during the Inquisition and killed him is opening to the public this weekend as part of renovation work…
A Mark Rothko feast is reopening one of Rome's top culture venues this weekend - the renovated Palazzo delle Esposizioni complex.The retrospective, wh…
The six teenage fairies at the centre of the Winx Club phenomenon are so popular these days that their creator is starting to be seen in his native It…
AC Milan's inspirational Brazil midfielder Kaka has been voted the world's best player by a global jury of his peers.Kaka succeeded international team…
The period uniforms in Spike Lee's new WWII Resistance drama are unusually perfect replicas of those worn by German and American forces at the time -…
Italy's oldest woman has died at the age of 109 in central Sardinia, an area being studied for its remarkable longevity rates.Raffaella Monni lived an…
Flash News - 40 Italian, international firms to offer preview in January Women s fashion returns to Florence during the Pitti Woman Pre-collection a…
The number of foreigners living in Italy rose by 10% to reach almost three million last year, according national statistics bureau Istat.Figures also…
The federation of Italian industrialists, Confindustria, praised the government on Tuesday for cutting business taxes in the 2008 budget but called fo…
Italy's deficit-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio stood at 1.9 percent in the first six months of 2007 compared to 2.8 percent in the first half o…
Flash News -Young designers get chance to update timeless garment - European fashion designers aged 35 and under have until October 30 to sign up for…
Flash News - New distribution structure in place for direct sales - A new business plan is in effect for the direct sale of seafood in the Viareggio p…
Tuscany, central Italy, is ranked second in the country in terms of foreign companies, whose number stood at 40,083 in 2006, according to the regional…
Italians will soon no longer need a passport to enter most of the European Union's new member states, it was announced on Thursday.On December 21, the…
Italy would be entitled to impose DNA tests on would-be immigrants seeking to join family members already settled in the country, a European Commissio…