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Roberto Capucci's legendary 'fabric sculptures', which have appeared in galleries around the world, are set for a permanent home in a new museum devot…
What’s happening to Italy’s golden apple? The tomato originated in Central America and was only introduced into Europe in the 16th century by the…
A top Vatican official on Wednesday urged Catholics to stop funding Amnesty International, following a change in the human rights group's abortion pol…
Italian fashion legend Valentino returns to Rome next month for three days of festivities marking his 45 years as stylist to some of the world's most…
Italian lawmakers and Jewish community leaders have reacted angrily to a ruling that awarded a Nazi war criminal day release in his life sentence for…
A drunken man drove down Rome's famed Spanish Steps at dawn on Tuesday, thinking the world-famous monument was a city street.The man, identified as a…
Australia's MotoGP wonderboy Casey Stoner will race with Ducati at least until the end of the 2008 season, the Italian team said on Wednesday, confirm…
The small coastal town of Barletta is paying homage to its most famous son, Giuseppe De Nittis, with a new museum devoted to the work of the Italian I…
I WAS IN VENICE recently on a long weekend with friends and we always seemed to end up in Piazza San Marco at the end of the day, at one of the wonder…
A row blew up between the government and the judiciary on Tuesday after Italian newspapers published phone taps involving key figures in the ruling ce…
The once-endangered Italian wolf has made a remarkable recovery and has come down from the central Italian mountains to be spotted on the outskirts of…
Two elderly Italian farmers have ended the reign of terror of a bow-and-arrow-wielding Russian 'ninja' bandit who spread fear across northeastern Ital…
Police have saved the priceless ruins of an ancient temple from being smashed up to make room for a southern Italian holiday village.The developers fo…
The Italian Senate on Monday turned down a demand for ice cream that raised the heat on Italy's pols - just as another ethics issue exploded with the…
A new Rome show on Symbolism promises to give an accessible overview of this highly influential modern art movement without oversimplifying it for pub…
A turn-of-the-century Sicilian beauty has beaten screen siren Monica Bellucci in a poll of Italian Women Who Made The World Dream.The beguiling Franc…
Italian politicians have raised eyebrows by demanding cheap parliamentary ice cream amid widespread anger at perks and pay.Senators Rocco Buttiglione…
The centre left clinched the key run-off race in local elections held on Sunday and Monday but opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi said his coalition'…
Greenpeace led calls for a global ban on patents on conventional seeds and animals Monday at the Rome headquarters of the United Nations Food and Agri…
Genoa's Serie A promotion celebrations were spoilt Monday when the Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) called the club's chairman a "danger to sport" for…