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It seems that the dream story for Italian gossip magazines - a super famous American Hollywood actor falling for an Italian starlet - and allowing the…
Attendants at the Ischia Film & Music Global Festival where delighted with an improvised rendition of "Every Breath You Take" from Sting and Zucch…
Times are tough for many families in Italy with the financial crisis affecting seriously what was an already declining economy. One indicator of an in…
Ferrari recently unveiled the brand new Ferrari that is to replace the F430.The name is a reference to the 4500 motor and V-8 engine. Italia, instead,…
Francesco Totti signed a new five-year contract with his hometown club. This will keep him with Roma AC until he is 37. Totti is a top-level football…
What better job aspiring Indiana Jones's can have than "taking care of ancient sacred cemeteries, look after their preventive preservation, further ex…
Firefighters are hard at work in Sicily trying to save whatever is possible from a fire that started in the natural reserve Cava Grande di Cassibile,…
Lucca reserves a very special event for ballet lovers this August - a homage to "Ballets Russes" directed by Carla Fracci and with dancers from the Ro…
The Italian Catholic Church has decided enough is enough and is now speaking clearly against the way Berlusconi has behaved and is dealing with the al…
A Swedish couple eager to visit the beautiful island of Capri, an island off the coast of Naples, ended up in Carpi - a delightful but far less glamor…
Firefighters are still battling with fires in Sardinia, and now Sicily, with more than 1500 firefighters and ten water planes involved. Arsonists are…
The ape - that cure little three wheeler that adorns (some would say haunts) Italian streets and is the vehicle of choice for everyone from fruit sell…
The huge fires that destroyed more than 15000 hectares of land and caused two deaths as well as millions in material damages is now under control alth…
Italy's largest park is perhaps also one of the least-well known - but this summer would be a great time to discover it.The Pollino park, between Basi…
Following a non-stop series of increasingly more embarrassing revelations regarding the Prime Minister's affairs with paid escorts Berlusconi replied…
A Japanese couple charged 580 Euros for lunch in Rome have been invited back to Italy by its Tourism Minister at the expense of the Italian government…
Italian film-makers and actors took to the streets of Rome on Monday to protest the huge cuts that Italy's cash-strapped government is having to make…
Italy has always been known as a country with few problems with alcohol consumption - and that is also reflected in the lack of any laws to control wh…
Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was firmly back in the international spotlight yesterday after the tape recordings of escort girl's Patrizia…
The three nuns, Sister Tavoletta, 56, and two others (unnamed) aged 65 and 78, were rushing to see the Pope at 180kmph (112 mph) when the police pulle…