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Fuel station operators said on Friday they would step up their battle against government plans to deregulate their sector with a potentially crippling…
Italian rocker Zucchero is up for a Grammy Award this year for giving backup vocal support to Sam Moore in his duet with the late Billy Preston in the…
Defence Minister Arturo Parisi said on Friday that Italian troops would remain in Afghanistan until at least 2011, raising the hackles of pacifist ele…
Sales of quality foods and wine declined last year, apparently because the economic recovery was not strong enough to convince Italians to give preced…
Italy still risks disciplinary action by the European Commission for allegedly blocking a cross-border motorways merger even though Spanish operator A…
Italians were more ready to spend in the last quarter of 2006 and the inclination should extend through the first quarter of the current year, accordi…
An Italian research institute has been chosen to lead a European project to develop and mass-produce new vaccines to fight some forms of cancer. The t…
The government on Thursday locked horns with the northern region of Lombardy over its recent anti-smog law. The government told the region surrounding…
The great Palatine hill where Rome was born is set to get a Telethon life-line amid claims that the government hasn't got enough cash to stop it colla…
Although Italian women are the most sexually active in Europe, only a minority use the pill, according to a new study. The study was carried out on a…
U.S. economist and environmental activist Jeremy Rifkin told Italians this week they can do their bit to fight global warming by following a five-part…
A 17-year-old soccer hooligan has been formally placed under investigation on suspicion that he was responsible for the death of a police officer du…
A selection of Italian movies are bidding for honours at the 57th Berlin Film festival, which kicks off Thursday. The Italian contingent is led by pro…
Donatella Versace's advice to US presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is: don't wear trousers. "She should stop wearing trousers. I can under…
Demand for hashish and cocaine is on the rise in Italy while there has been a drop for heroin, National Anti-Mafia Directorate (DNA) chief Piero Grass…
Italy coach Pierre Berbizier has recalled veteran scrum-half Alessandro Troncon to his starting line-up for Saturday's Six Nations clash with England…
A bill proposing key rights for unmarried couples won a green light from the cabinet on Thursday after centre-left allies hammered out a compromise on…
A week after publicly scolding her husband for his roving eye, Silvio Berlusconi's wife returned to the press on Wednesday to defend her actions. Vero…
Deputy Premier Francesco Rutelli on Wednesday swept aside doubts over the unity of the ruling centre-left coalition on foreign policy issues such as I…
The greenhouse effect risks making some of Italy's top wines extinct within the next 100 years, according to an article posted on WineNews, 'Italy's p…