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On Monday night Billy Joel and Bryan Adams become the latest music greats to play in the shadows of Rome's Colosseum.The "Telecomcerto" has become an…
A controversial prisoner pardon bill which would free up to 20,000 inmates was signed into law on Monday by President Giorgio Napolitano. The bill, w…
The Festival di Londra at Ripatransone, Le Marche opens on the 9th August in beautiful Teatro Mercantini at 9.30pm with the outstanding young Lithuani…
Pouting Italian celebrity Anna Falchi's bee-stung lips are entirely a gift from Mother Nature, a court has ruled here. The court awarded damages of 15…
Premier Romano Prodi survived a second do-or-die ballot in as many days on Friday after a foreign military mission financing bill was put to a confide…
Two Sicilian love rivals rolled back the centuries Thursday by resolving a dispute over a lady with a duel.The men fought each other with knives and j…
Italian Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier Massimo D'Alema has announced that he will embark on a diplomatic mission to Jerusalem Sunday to discus th…
Italian Interior Minister Giuliano Amato on Thursday urged the European Union to help Italy cope with its influx of would-be immigrants.
In a letter…
Plans to build the world's longest suspension bridge to link Sicily and the Italian mainland have been put in cold storage."All planning activities on…
Inter Milan kept celebrations of the club's 14th Italian league title low-key, after being given the 2006 scudetto stripped from Juventus for match-fi…
Farmers sounded a fresh alarm on Thursday over the state of the Po, saying a prolonged drought had reduced parts of the northern river to their lowest…
TV star Michelle Hunziker has rekindled hopes that her fairy-tale romance with ex-hubbie, the Italian pop sensation Eros Ramazzotti, might soon be bac…
Italians across the country are looking forward to their annual vacations but the summer season bodes ill for many pets, who will be dumped in their d…
Government deregulation plans came under fresh assault on Wednesday as striking chemists took to the streets of Rome in protest at the reforms. Chem…
Diplomats attending a crisis summit on Lebanon in Rome on Wednesday pledged to do their best to help achieve a lasting ceasefire between Israel and Le…
A little village in the Ligurian mountains has turned itself into a self-sufficient island of organic food and sustainable energy, becoming the ultima…
Venice's gondolas are set to go back to basics, shedding the glitzy trappings recently tacked on to lure tourists.The city's gondola association has d…
Environmentalists and lawmakers sounded the alarm on Tuesday over the state of the Po, saying a prolonged drought had sapped the northern river and re…
The ruins of an ancient Roman aristocrat's house have emerged from the bowels of a palazzo on the edge of the Roman forum. Two statues, a series of m…
Italian Premier Romano Prodi said on Tuesday that obtaining a ceasefire would be the main goal of international crisis talks on Lebanon to be held in…