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A group of young Italians has come up with a solar-powered scooter you can put under the desk or stairs after it helps you beat inner-city traffic. N…
Nobel Laureate and self-proclaimed jester Dario Fo kicks off Milan's first international clown festival Thursday.The playwright-performer - awarded t…
Rome was forced to issue a statement Wednesday insisting its famous 300,000-strong feline population poses no health threat, following the discovery…
A 24-hour rail strike on Saturday has been called off after management and unions reached an agreement on employment levels. The strike had been set…
Italy celebrated on Thursday after a convincing victory against World Cup hosts Germany. "Now we can believe a little more that we have a real chanc…
Pope Benedict XVI has ordered one of his nine official titles to be dropped. In the new edition of the Vatican yearbook, the German pontiff is no lon…
British screen idol Orlando Bloom is to make a guest appearance at Italy's top song festival as part of efforts to restore some of the event's flaggi…
Michael Schumacher is determined to put Ferrari back on a winning track after last year's disastrous season. Speaking between tests on his new Ferrar…
Italy's prisons have never been as crowded as they are now and this has aggravated a major health care crisis in the penal system, according the late…
Elections in Italy are a tricky affair and this year's promise to be one of the most intense contests in some time. Stefano Rossini will try to guide…
US President George W. Bush hosted his "friend" Premier Silvio Berlusconi at the White House on Tuesday, praising him as a "strong leader" who has "…
Ilary Blasi, the wife on footballer Totti, apologised on Tuesday for her 'Janet Jackson moment' on the opening night of Italy's top TV show of the y…
Parmalat's creditors knew about the dairy multinational's true financial crisis well before its collapse at the end of 2003, Parmalat CEO Enrico Bondi…
An ancient Phoenician temple unearthed in Sicily is "unique" in the West, the head of the Italian dig team claims."You have to go all the way to Amri…
Carnival may be over in the rest of Italy but the biggest celebration is on Ash Wednesday in the tiny town of Gradoli overlooking Lake Bolsena in no…
Italy lags far behind other countries in the West in regards to the number of women elected to parliament, according to a report presented to the Uni…
The success of the Turin Winter Olympics can be the springboard to a winning bid for the 2016 Summer Games, Italian officials said on Monday. Rome an…
Italian luxury jewelry firm Bulgari is to help save the crumbling gravestones of Rome's Protestant cemetery, the burial place of English poets John K…
Italy is getting progressively hotter and drier, a trend which has accelerated significantly over the past 50 years, according to a new study from Ita…
The annual glitzy song contest of San Remo, which has already become a national obsession in Italy, launched last night. The contest will continue ove…