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Thousands of people packed into this city's cathedral Tuesday morning to watch the blood of patron saint San Gennaro liquefy in the repetition of a ce…
Protesters from southern Italy took to the streets of Rome on Tuesday to demand that the government push ahead with plans to build a bridgelinking Sic…
Champions Inter Milan are already showing signs of a siege mentality as they seek to recoup two points on Roma in Serie A's first big title clash Wedn…
A tug-of-war involving a 10-year-old Belarussian child continued to cause diplomatic tensions between Belarus and Italy on Wednesday. Belarussian Am…
Italian police arrested 20 people on Tuesday including former Telecom Italia managers and police officials as part of a Milan probe into illegal wiret…
Italian Premier Romano Prodi, already embroiled in a row over Telecom Italia, faced another threat on Tuesday from a rebel senator in his own centre-l…
A top Catholic cardinal shook hands with Italian Jewish and Muslim leaders on Tuesday after a meeting in Rome aimed at lessening tensions over the pop…
The marriage certificate of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini has been put up for auction on eBay . An antique shop in this northern Italian city want…
It looks like it's going to be a good year for wine quality-wise even if quantity will be down from 2005, according to leading Italian winemakers quiz…
As al Qaeda vowed to wage its Holy War until the West was "defeated", the Vatican prepared on Monday to launch a diplomatic drive to explain the pope'…
Premier Romano Prodi on Monday suffered another setback in a row centring on Telecom Italia, with the loss of a close advisor who had recommended that…
An Italian researcher in Germany has come up with a series of exciting new attributions of Renaissance sketches previously classified as anonymous . T…
The Vatican's top official on inter-religious dialogue will meet Rome's Muslim and Jewish leaders on Tuesday in a bid to underline the pope's respect…
  Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said on Friday that the formation of a new Palestinian unity government could end a standoff betwee…
The Vatican stressed its commitment to inter-religious dialogue on Friday as anger boiled in the Muslim world over Pope Benedict XVI's recent comments…
Italian Premier Romano Prodi on Friday found himself at the centre of a deepening row over Italian telecommunications giant Telecom Italia . The centr…
A tug-of-war involving a 10-year-old Belarussian child risked degenerating on Thursday into a diplomatic spat between Italy and Belarus. The child, an…
The Vatican denied on Thursday that Pope Benedict had attacked Islam or Muslims during a speech given in the German city of Regensburg this week. The…
Story by Martin Penner Italian men, for years accused of shunning household chores, may be on the way to shouldering some of the burden of washing, c…
There has been an about face in the way Italians view the European Union and after traditionally being among the most pro-EU on the continent, the maj…