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A robber with a shoe fetish has been arrested after a three-month rampage along the northwestern Italian coast.The 27-year-old man, Maurizio Giusto, w…
Italian Deputy Premier and Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli on Tuesday threw his support behind the bid Italy's second biggest airline Air One is ma…
Italy is hailing an unprecedented example of soccer supporters joining together not to commit violence but to expel a troublemaker from their midst.Du…
Italian wine merchants are shifting their marketing targets in the United States to the 'Millennials', the new generation of consumers born after 1977…
The number of graduates in Italy doubled over the last ten years with more than 40% of young people now completing university courses - the same rate…
Juventus midfielder Antonio Nocerino was discharged from hospital Tuesday morning after spending a night in observation following a road accident.Hosp…
This year's early and wine wine harvest is only the latest effect of global warming in Italy, the Italian Coldiretti farmers' union said on Tuesday.It…
Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair is ready to spend more than $1 billion in order to offer flights from Milan's Malpensa airport and expand its services…
A Milan magistrate on Thursday renewed accusations of political "complicity" in a failed bank takeover bid which generated an international scandal an…
Education Minister Fabio Mussi moved on Wednesday to stem polemics over admissions exams for medical students after questions were raised about transp…
Itay's year-on-year inflation rate held at 1.6% in August with the consumer price index rising 0.2% over the previous month, national statistics burea…
A group of old people in the Italian city of Genoa will soon be testing a high-tech electronic bracelet designed to comfort and protect them at all ti…
The climate in Italy is heating up at a faster rate than the rest of the planet, according to a new report from the National Research Council (CNR).Lo…
After getting tough last month with windshield washers, city officials here would now like to crack down on illegal parking attendants.According to ci…
If current climate trends continue, Italy's Po River risks running dry some 100km before reaching its delta on the Adriatic Sea, experts warned in a r…
The European Commission said on Tuesday that the Italian economy was underperforming.The EC said it expected Italy's GDP to grow by 1.9% this year, a…
Italy's biggest electricity company Enel indicated on Thursday it was ready to move into the nuclear power sector quickly if public opinion shifts in…
Two men were nabbed this week while fishing money out of Rome's famed Trevi Fountain in more crowd-stopping antics at the landmark monument.Police mov…
Two US military officials have begun a three-week mission in southern Sicily to locate the remains of about 40 American soldiers who went missing in a…
A prized sweet chestnut from the region of Cuneo in the Italian north-west and a white asparagus native to the Bassano area north of Venice have becom…