Articles by ITALY
Debate over Italy's controversial abortion law has been rekindled by a case in which a hospital treating a pregnant woman aborted a healthy foetus whi…
One of the masterpieces of Western art, Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel frescoes in Padua, is threatened by flooding and water seepage, an expert warned on…
The cold, rainy weather dogging swathes of Europe this summer is of little help to a small colony of frogs in central Italy, struggling to beat the he…
Scenes of panic erupted in a mountain village near Palermo on Friday as one of the many fires devastating Sicily's northern coastal areas began to eng…
Filmmakers and celebrities attending the upcoming Venice Film Festival will have an unusual extra category to compete in this year: the award for "the…
Cult US documentary-maker Michael Moore told Italians on Friday not to take their universal health care system for granted and took fire at former pre…
Italy's stock market regulator Consob on Friday gave its green light to Milan stock market operator Borsa Italiana to modify its statutes in view of i…
Titian's Veneto homeland is paying tribute to the 16th-century master this autumn with a stunning two-part exhibition featuring 90 artworks.The show,…
An association promoting wine tourism in Tuscany has asked to raise the level above which drivers will be found guilty of operating under the influenc…
The group of islands off the Tuscan coast that includes Elba and Montecristo is considering making environmental history by going totally oil-and-coal…
Premier Romano Prodi on Friday shrugged off a growing tax protest, saying that a boom in tax revenue demonstrated the public's confidence in the gover…
The crisis on international markets caused by the subprime credit crunch in the United States will reduce Italy's projected GDP growth from about 2% t…
A series of designs epitomizing the unique style of Italian fashion icon Giorgio Armani is to get a permanent home in Milan.After seven years touring…
Sicily on Thursday remained in the grips of a fire emergency which has so far claimed the lives of three people.Firefighters and army units were tackl…
Juventus return to Serie A on Saturday with a new coach and mighty ambitions after a year of penance in the second division for the Calciopoli referee…
While tourists may love this lagoon city's pigeons, for Venetians they are a little too dear, costing each resident some 275 euros a year to clean up…
A major tax row blew up in Italy on Wednesday after the government said it would push ahead with an election pledge to hike the tax rate on financial…
AC Milan fans will be banned from attending Sunday's Serie A opener against Genoa in a bid to prevent possible violence between supporters of the two…
Venice is stepping up efforts to fight slovenly behaviour among the scores of visitors that crowd the city each day.In its latest move to discourage b…
At least three people died on Wednesday in a fire emergency on the scorching southern island of Sicily.The three died after a blaze broke out at a hol…