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Autumn victories over Ukraine and Georgia put Italy's Euro 2008 qualification campaign back on track but Wednesday's clash with Scotland in Bari remai…
A team of Italian scientists say they have uncovered the secret emotions hidden behind different types of tail-wagging in dogs.If a dog is happy and w…
Italy has brought together six masterpieces by Piero Della Francesca for a major new show - including the first ever painting by the Renaissance maste…
Italy must work out a comprehensive plan for adapting the country to the changes in climate expected in coming decades, a group of top Italian climate…
The deadly H5N1 'bird flu' virus has been detected in 11 countries so far in 2007 but is still not being transmitted between humans, according to ex…
An Italian woman has managed to prove her existence in a year-long battle with Italian bureaucracy after the death of a namesake.Maria Giuliani, 74, r…
John Paul II's beatification process is moving ahead swiftly and new reports of miracles attributed to the late pontiff reach Rome every week, the Vat…
Soaring smog levels pose a mounting threat to Europe's historic and artistic treasures, experts warned Monday, and culture-rich Italy is especially at…
The biggest whale fossil ever found in Italy has emerged from one of the country's finest vineyards.The five-million-year-old skeleton turned up on th…
Italy focused on its looming water emergency on Thursday as the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) sounded the global alarm here o…
Daniele Mastrogiacomo, the Italian reporter just released after 15 days in the hands of Taliban kidnappers, said on Monday that he will never return t…
The Hermitage in St Petersburg, one of the world's most prestigious art galleries, is to set up a base in Italy to study and exhibit parts of its huge…
The inhabitants of a tiny village in central Italy are gearing up to do battle with New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art over an ancient chariot they…
Both Italy and the US on Thursday played down tensions sparked by the release of Taliban prisoners in return for the life of an Italian hostage in Afg…
Pope Benedict's new book on Jesus Christ will hit the shops after Easter but it's already an international best-seller, one of its publishers said on…
The Italian foreign ministry said on Thursday it was surprised by US criticism of the terms negotiated for the Monday release of an Italian kidnapped…
Sampdoria striker and captain Francesco Flachi has again tested positive for cocaine, his lawyer said on Thursday.Flachi, 31, was found to have a coca…
Italy's allies expressed concern on Wednesday over the terms negotiated for the release of an Italian journalist held hostage by the Taliban in southe…
An Italian court on Wednesday annulled a recent government decree doubling the amount of cannabis a person can carry without being arrested for dealin…
Newly appointed government spokesman Silvio Sircana looked set to retain his job on Wednesday despite a row triggered by a photo of him driving throug…