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A long-lost painting by Italian master Caravaggio which is part of the British royal family's collection is returning to Italy for the first time in c…
Thanks to a generous grant from the Vuolo-Bernstein Family Foundation, the Italian Jewish Cultural Center of Calabria (IjCCC) will begin activities i…
The Italian tourist industry breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday after the government ditched plans to start taxing holidaymakers. The government sai…
The government on Tuesday declared war on violent video games for children following mounting protests over a "disturbing" Japanese horror adventure c…
Italy's most talented and popular footballer, Francesco Totti, is to be a father for the second time. The AS Roma star's wife, Ilary Blasi, announced…
Slow-moving bureaucracy cost Italian firms almost 14 billion euros last year, according to a business report issued on Tuesday. The report, compiled b…
The chamber of a Florence hospital where Leonardo Da Vinci dissected human bodies has been opened to experts for a limited period. The Renaissance gen…
Tom Cruise, set to marry fiancée Katie Holmes near Rome later in the week, sparked a flurry of excitement in the Italian capital on Monday by arrivin…
The centre-left government announced on Monday that it had raised the amount of marijuana a person can carry without being arrested for dealing. Healt…
Italian prosecutors have opened two probes into an incident of bullying involving a secondary school student with Down Syndrome whose ordeal was filme…
Pope John Paul I, who died in 1978 after a reign of only 34 days, has taken an important step towards becoming a saint with the transfer of his canoni…
Thousands of Neapolitans lined up on Monday to pay their respects to the undisputed king of the 'sceneggiata', Mario Merola, who died Sunday night.…
I absolutely love this month – the carols, the snow and the excess of that ridiculously delicious panettone. Of course this is also the time to refl…
The Sicilian island of Pantelleria, midway to Africa, has yielded fresh Roman treasures that have spurred local officials to call for a full-fledged o…
The government has angered environmentalists and many Venetians by rejecting alternatives to the costly flood barrier system being built to protect th…
A new show in Rome seeks to shed light on a mystery that has puzzled art experts for centuries: why Caravaggio painted two versions of his Conversion…
A new tourist tax may make holidaying in Italy a little more expensive next summer. The tax is contained in an amendment to the 2007 budget and would…
Italy is preparing to enlist dogs to help in the war against the illegal trafficking of exotic animals and plants, a global business worth millions of…
A picturesque medieval castle north of Rome is widely believed to be the secret location selected by Hollywood star Tom Cruise to wed his fiancée Kat…
Singer Andrea Bocelli became the focus of widespread envy among Italian socialites on Thursday when it emerged that he has an invitation to attend the…