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After a month of non-stop investigations and endless calls to release Tommaso Onofri - an 18-month old toddler kidnapped from his home - the kidnapper…
Cosa Nostra's elusive superboss Bernardo Provenzano is alive and kicking, police said Friday, flatly contradicting a lawyer's claim he was dead.
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A nasty surprise greeted thousands of visitors to Pisa's famous leaning tower this morning. The tower was standing straight in the Campo dei Miracoli…
Ceramics, jewellery, corrals and iron handicrafts will take prime place in two of Harrods main windows on Brompton Road for the whole of April. The pr…
Milanese appeals court judges have confirmed a central plank in the prosecution's case against Premier Silvio Berlusconi's former attorney, Cesare Pre…
Older Italians are in good health and help their families despite low incomes - but there is still a big gender gap when it comes to marrying younger…
As election fever takes a grip across the nation, the picturesque Italian village of Orta San Giulio has banned political rallies from its central sq…
Cult comedienne and filmmaker Sabina Guzzanti is to star as Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi in one of Britain's best-known satire shows this weekend…
A nasty knee injury has put Italy and Monaco striker Christian Vieri's hopes of playing in the upcoming World Cup in danger. The club said that tes…
Former health minister Francesco Storace is being investigated by Rome prosecutors for unauthorised access into Rome city council's database shortly…
The Afghan Christian convert who was offered political asylum in Italy after he faced the death penalty for abandoning Islam, has arrived in Italy, P…
The Roman past of Lucca has been revealed by a striking new discovery in the heart of the Tuscan walled city. Archaeologists have unearthed evidence…
Italy has become the first country to offer asylum to an Afghan man who has escaped the death penalty for converting to Christianity, foreign ministry…
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi's claim that Chinese Communists once boiled babies and used them as fertiliser drew a sharp rebuke from Beijing on…
Pope Benedict XVI on Friday named his first clutch of new cardinals - an event that has stirred the usual stew of speculation about shifting power blo…
Mafia drug traffickers were building a submarine to bring cocaine from Colombia to Italy, Italy's anti-Mafia chief said Monday. Speaking after on his…
An investigation has been opened here into the causes of a plane crash which killed Angelo D'Arrigo, the world champion hang-glider known as the 'Huma…
The tomb of Italy's greatest poet, Dante, is to be restored.The tomb in the northeastern city of Ravenna will be cleaned up in a seven-month project…
Suburban houses, flowers, birds, fruit, languid ladies and starchy bowler-hatted men float from Brussels to Lake Como this Saturday in Italy's larges…
If Silvio Berlusconi and Romano Prodi were wines, and not respectively the center-right and center-left candidates for premier, the first would be c…