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Some 50% of Italian families live on just over 1,850 euros a month, while the average family income in Italy is 2,340 euros, according to a study by n…
This New Year will see a 10% increase in the number of people spending the holiday at guest farms in Italy, according to the Coldiretti farmers' union…
Italy's refereeing great Pierlugi Collina has been tipped to take over as ref selector after the surprise Christmas resignation of the current chief.…
Piedmont's famed wine estate Fontanafredda will be auctioned off in the first months of next year, the Monte Paschi di Siena (MPS) bank, the current o…
The authorities of Emilia Romagna have won plaudits from environmentalists, astronomers and romantic souls for moves to save the region's starry night…
Opposition parties and Catholics expressed outrage Wednesday at two Italian MPs who placed gay couples in the Lower House Nativity scene. Bruno Mellan…
Italy threatened to break off relations with the John Paul Getty Museum of Los Angeles on Wednesday for failing to return pillaged art treasures. The…
The theory that life arrived on Earth on the back of a comet is much closer to being universally accepted now thanks to research in which Italian scie…
A Nigerian militant group which is holding three Italian oil workers hostage said on Wednesday that it would rather kill the men than accept a ransom…
Unemployment in Italy fell to its lowest point since 1992 in the third quarter of this year, according to figures released on Wednesday by national st…
As the House geared up to give the government's controversial 2007 budget the final nod, Economy Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa said on Wednesday tha…
The first songs ever recorded by Italian comic actor Toto' have come to light some 40 years after the legendary Neapolitan artist's death. The recordi…
Italy's two most popular TV reality shows were slapped with 100,000-euro fines on Wednesday for blasphemous language and swearing. Grande Fratello (Bi…
Italy's tax police uncovered 15.3 billion euros in undeclared income in 2006 as part of state efforts to reduce the scale of the country's underground…
Police arrested about 100 people in the southern city of Bari and in several northern Italian cities on Tuesday as they smashed a powerful mafia organ…
Italy geared up on Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of one of its best-loved actors, Marcello Mastroianni. The three-time Academy Awa…
Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone squashed the idea that the Holy See might field its own soccer team Tuesday, insisting he was joking when…
Centre-right opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi, who has just undergone heart surgery at an American hospital, will not be back in Italy before the e…
Italian director Gabriele Muccino remained overwhelmed on Tuesday after his new film starring Will Smith struck box office gold in the Unite…
Italian women are steadily catching up with men when it comes to Internet use and among teenagers the girls have even overtaken the boys, according to…