Articles by ITALY
More women over 40 have babies in Italy than in any other Western nation, according to new figures highlighting the growing tendency among Italian wom…
Italian Premier Romano Prodi is pushing for the routes used by medieval pilgrims to reach Rome to be revived for modern-day walkers, religious or othe…
Siena group employs 1,400 people, 250 researchers - Pharmaceutical multinational Novartis is set to produce the first bird flu vaccine in their Sienes…
Majority of sales to large-scale distributors - More than 70% of Tuscany's famed 'Prosciutto Toscano' (DOP) is sold by large-scale distributors such a…
An irate mother took the house keys and allowance away from her 61-year-old son because he did not come home when he was supposed to and did not tell…
Italian automaker Fiat was lifted on Wednesday by the release of figures showing its sales perked up almost 10% in July over the same month last year.…
Colaninno: 'complex deal but we have a presence' - Piaggio is planning to launch operations in Brazil within the next two or three years."We think the…
An opposition MP at the centre of a sex and drugs scandal was placed under investigation on Thursday.Prosecutors said Cosimo Mele, a former member of…
A glorious array of art is returning to one of Rome's finest palazzi after an Italian army officers' club was evicted after 50 years."Where there were…
News that inflation was down in July received a warm welcome in government circles but was met with scepticism from consumer groups.National statistic…
Italian directing legend Michelangelo Antonioni, who died earlier this week aged 94, was buried on Thursday in his hometown of Ferrara in northern Ita…
Motorbike sales rose 1.8% last month, over July of last year, thanks to strong sales for big motorcycles and scooters, sector sources said."Sales for…
Italian historians believe they have found the missing tomb of a Medici duchess who died mysteriously over four centuries ago.Experts think the tomb,…
Venice's bid to train tourists to be more respectful of the city is working and scores of sloppy visitors have been fined in the last two months, acco…
Ferrari's arch-rival McLaren has accused it of winning the season-opening Australian Grand Prix with an illegal car.In the latest chapter of the 'spy'…
Italy on Thursday stopped to remember the victims of the 1980 bombing of the Bologna train station which left 85 people dead and some 200 injured.Rela…
Italy has already begun its earliest wine harvest in 30 years and winemakers expect to see production to drop by some 10%, although the grapes will be…
Italian fashion icon Giorgio Armani will dress Chelsea's soccer stars for the next three seasons, the London club announced on Wednesday.The English P…
Ferrari's former technical director Ross Brawn, part of the 'dream team' that gave the Italians six straight constructors titles, has denied having pl…
The John Paul Getty Museum has agreed to return 40 allegedly looted antiquities to Italy including a 5th-century BC statue of Aphrodite, Italian Cultu…