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Former New York city mayor and probable presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani is in Italy for a brief visit during which he will hold informal talks w…
The death toll from Monday's boating incident in the Messina Strait, where a passenger hydrofoil was rammed by a cargo ship, stands at four, authori…
Premier Romano Prodi was struggling to maintain unity in his centre-left coalition on Monday as a rift deepened over possible plans to enlarge a US ba…
British supermodel Naomi Campbell has agreed a huge out-of-court settlement with an Italo-American actress who accused her of a Rome hotel attack. Cam…
Marriages between Italians and foreigners have increased tenfold in fifteen years, according to the latest survey. Mixed marriages are up from 60,000…
Inter Milan coach Roberto Mancini said Monday that he still fears AS Roma's title challenge after his side extended their Serie A lead to nine points…
Leading Italian meteorologists and climate exerts met here on Monday to examine the possible effects from the unusually warm and dry winter Italy is e…
A Rome hospital at the centre of a hygiene scare denied on Friday a press report saying that the eyes of dead patients had been "stolen" to feed an il…
Florentine tailors and their English peers on London's famed Savile Row are planning an exchange program aimed at helping both rag trade traditions at…
Computer reconstructions of Vesuvius's various eruptions are one of the star turns in a new show in Rome about the world's most famous volcano.The sho…
Italy's greatest poet Dante didn't have a big nose after all, a neglected Florence fresco indicates - confirming a sensational new reconstruction made…
Unions at Italian carrier Alitalia said on Friday that they were ready to call off their January 19 strike if the government offered guarantees on e…
Police have arrested two people they believe were responsible for the murder last October of a promising young soccer player here in this southeast It…
Handsome young clergymen, an elderly Sophia Loren, football stars and teen-age idols are being joined by twelve grey-haired grannies in Italy's annual…
A protein in nerve cells holds out hope for treating Alzheimer's and other mental diseases, Italian researchers believe. The protein, known as CNF1, c…
The hunt for Leonardo da Vinci's greatest lost fresco is back on.
Italian Culture Minister Francesco Rutelli has greenlighted a dig behind…
The number of people drawing pensions in Italy at the end of 2005 totalled 16,560,897 and while the number was similar to the previous year, the annua…
The havoc climate change may wreak in the future is now one of the Italian people's biggest fears, according to new research. The study, conducted by…
One out of two Italians would like to see more local products on supermarket shelves, according to a survey released this week by the consumer associa…
The brutal killing of one of the last golden eagles in northern Lombardy has shocked environmentalists and highlighted the threat that Italian poacher…