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Italy is calling for 'food ambassadors' to stem the worldwide tide of insults to its culinary glory.A new survey by the Italian Academy of Cuisine (AI…
Italian health officials have drawn up a national prevention plan in view of the record heat expected this summer.The plan was presented Friday at the…
If drunk in moderation, wine can stop mild mental impairment in the elderly degenerating into full-blown dementia, Italian researchers believe.A glass…
Almost half of the quality wines produced in Tuscany, above all from Chianti to Brunello di Montalcino, is exported to the United States, according to…
The transAtlantic friendship which exists between Italy and the United States is "essential and steadfast," Italian Premier Romano Prodi said on Monda…
A collection of ancient Afghan treasures, believed destroyed for many years, has arrived in Turin for a stunning new show.The exhibition, which opened…
A proposal from Italy's health minister to send in inspectors to search for drugs in public schools has created division in the center-left government…
AC Milan striker Pippo Inzaghi is back in Italy's ranks on the back of his match-winning exploits in Milan's Champions League Final against Liverpool.…
After leading AC Milan to their seventh European Cup, Carlo Ancelotti admitted Monday that he hopes his next job will be as coach of the Italian natio…
Italy upped the number of its environmentally top-notch beaches on 2007 although southern regions are struggling to meet standards, according to a new…
The following is a city-by-city guide to some of Italy's top art exhibitions.
AREZZO - Museo Statale d'Arte Medievale e Moderna: Piero dell…
Soccer fever is peaking in the home of the Catholic Church as the Vatican gears up for Saturday's climax to a new tournament for priests and trainee c…
A record number of tourists stayed in hotels in Rome this month after a 11% rise for the first four months of the year, city officials said."In the mo…
Italy has the oldest population in Europe and the second oldest in the world, after Japan, national statistics bureau Istat confirmed on Wednesday in…
Contact with four-legged friends may be more effective in helping child headache sufferers than medicines, according to the results of animal-assisted…
Fiat Chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo on Thursday blasted Italy's political class in an address which some saw as an indication he was poised to e…
An 'electronic nose' has proved able to detect asthma, according to an Italian researcher working in the Netherlands.Silvano Dragonieri of Leiden Univ…
Italy's growing taste for shark meat is a threat to the endangered predators, shark lovers say.Italy is now Europe's second-biggest importer of shark…
The North-South gap in Italy continues to widen in every social and economic sector and people from the south are once again migrating north, accordin…
Provocative American installation artist Jenny Holzer is lighting up Rome with one of her trademark poetry projection shows.Holzer started brightening…