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Flag-waving crowds waited for hours in blazing sunshine on Monday to give Italy's triumphant football team a rapturous welcome as it arrived back on n…
Italy owes a hefty chunk of its World Cup success to two unlikely heroes from a squad packed with top international stars. While strikers like Alessa…
Italian lawyers on Monday began a 12-day strike to protest government plans to deregulate their sector as a means of encouraging competition and lowe…
After a night of wild celebrations, Italy is preparing to welcome home the Azzurri heroes who gave the nation its fourth World Cup Sunday. "It's All T…
Kirk Friis shares with us the accountof how his family and him managed to settle in Sardinia tackling the whole gamut of problems facing people wantin…
A shake-up of Italy's intelligence services looked increasingly likely on Friday as indications of Italian involvement in an alleged CIA kidnapping…
Italy is first in Europe for the number of deaths and injuries from accidents involving motorbikes, according to a new report. Over the past…
Former premier Silvio Berlusconi was ordered to stand trial on Friday for alleged fraud at his private TV network company Mediaset. Judge Fabio Papa…
A contest to blend Rome's controversial new home for the Ara Pacis with its surroundings has generated huge interest a few weeks after it was unveiled…
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has accepted an invitation to go to Berlin on Sunday to watch the Italy-France World Cup final. The head of sta…
A jailed mafia boss and his wife have been given permission to use state-funded assisted fertility techniques in order to have child. Salvino Madonia…
Opposition chief Silvio Berlusconi crossed swords with the new government on Thursday over a decree designed to crack down on tax dodgers and abolis…
Italy's big cities are the worst off in Europe when looked at from an environmental point of view, according to a comprehensive new survey presented o…
As World Cup fever grips Italy, nuns and papal aides are being infected by the nation's soccer passion. Benedict XVI did not watch Tuesday night's s…
Italian lawyers on Wednesday called a 12-day strike to protest against reforms regarding their profession which were part of the government's so-call…
A group of Venetian separatists who scaled St Mark's bell-tower in 1997 have bought back the makeshift tank they used to storm the Venice monument.…
Italians are drinking less than ever, according to a report out Friday that countered recent alarms about a surge in youth bingeing. "The survey sho…
Two members of the Italian military intelligence service SISMI were arrested on Wednesday in connection with a probe into the alleged CIA kidnapping o…
The media here have joined the Italian public in celebrating the Azzurri heroes who beat hosts Germany 2-0 Tuesday to reach the World Cup final for th…
Italian movie queen Sophia Loren is to appear naked in the famous Pirelli calendar - in what will be her first nude shot. News magazine Gente said th…