Articles by ITALY
Italy are hoping to avoid favourites Brazil until the World Cup final and exact revenge for their last final appearance in 1994, when Roberto Baggio f…
Writer and critic Enzo Siciliano, a close friend of literary lions Alberto Moravia and Pier Paolo Pasolini, died on Friday in Rome at the age of 72.…
Mark Worden takes a look at Italy and its exciting World Cup history. In spite of being the subject of an embarrassing scandal earlier this year, Ital…
Italy start their World Cup campaign against Ghana on Monday looking to revive the spirit that brought them their third and last triumph in 1982. A f…
Police on Thursday arrested the son of Vito Ciancimino, the former mayor of Palermo who in the early 1990s became the first Italian politician to be c…
Pompeii has recreated the summer delights its pleasure-loving inhabitants enjoyed as one of Rome's prime resorts.From Thursday until the end of July v…
The Vatican expressed alarm on Thursday over reports that thousands of women may be forced to go to Germany and work as prostitutes during the soccer…
Visitors to Siena this weekend will be able to compare their own efforts to keep young, healthy and beautiful with those used by the ancient Egyptians…
The visitors at the Pompeii archaeological complex will be offered from tomorrow until July 31 infusions and refreshing compresses as well as healing…
The traditional Italian passion for espressos and cappuccinos is being eroded as a fashion for British-style tea-drinking creeps across the nation.…
Fresh tombs of one of Rome's most implacable foes have been discovered in Italy's mountainous Abruzzo region. Some of the tombs have been dated to th…
Milanese police arrested dozens of immigrant youths Wednesday as part of a clampdown on the American-style Latin street gangs that are forming in some…
Italy coach Marcello Lippi's injury conundrum was dramatically deepened on Wednesday when midfield bastion Gennaro Gattuso was ruled out of the Azzurr…
Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said on Wednesday that the withdrawal of Italian troops from Iraq would be completed by the autumn. Speaking…
Premier Romano Prodi said on Tuesday that the death of an Italian soldier in a terrorist attack in southern Iraq would not induce the government to sp…
Protests mounted on Tuesday over a centre-left MP with a terrorist past who has been appointed assistant to the House speaker. Sergio D'Elia, a form…
A group of Venetian separatists who scaled St Mark's bell-tower in 1997 on Tuesday urged the Italian government to give them back the makeshift tank i…
Abortion is an "abominable" crime and as such should be punished, the Vatican said on Tuesday in a new document on the family. In a comprehensive ov…
Roma striker Francesco Totti could be the star of this year's World Cup and may give Italy a winning edge, soccer legend Pele' said on Monday. "Tott…
Ever wondered why Italians make such good Don Juans? It could have something to with the country's famously good coffee. According to an Australian…