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A stunning collection of work by the mysterious 15th-century Sicilian artist credited with bringing oil painting to Venice is to go on display in Rom…
Host nation Italy is celebrating its first gold medal of the Turin Winter Olympics, after Armin Zoeggeler won the luge singles title Sunday evening.…
In a clear break with tradition, the pope has organised a vote among Italian bishops to choose the next head of the Catholic Church in Italy. In the p…
St Valentine's head is in central Italy but other bits of the lovers' saint are further south, sparking competition for couples' favours. Terni, the…
In a bid to reassure Italians, Health Minister Francesco Storace on Monday visited the three southern regions where a highly pathogenic strain of bird…
Father Andrea Santoro, the Italian priest murdered amid anti-Christian anger in Turkey last weekend, is to be put on the path to sainthood. Cardinal…
An investigation has been opened here to determine whether Premier Silvio Berlusconi made slanderous remarks about Italian cooperatives and the nation…
Turin and its surrounding mountains are hosting what organizers are promising will be the most beautiful edition of the Winter Olympics ever staged. I…
Laura Pausini was feted by the Italian pop world on Thursday after she became the first Italian woman to win a music industry 'Oscar'. The Italian…
Stefano Rossini writes about the Protestant cemetery in Rome, also know as "a cemetry of poets" since both Keats and Shelley lie there, as well as man…
An Italian lawyer is having a whip-round to make it easier for Premier Silvio Berlusconi to carry out a pledge - later retracted - to 'sail to Tahit…
Reclusive American pop star Michael Jackson has spent five days in the Neapolitan Riviera resort of Sorrento without anyone noticing he was there, it…
The number of retired people and the pensions they are drawing are both on the rise in Italy, national statistics bureau Istat confirmed on Thursday.…
Italian Agriculture Minister Giovanni Alemanno expressed concern on Tuesday over a World Trade Organisation ruling that the European Union and six m…
Time-Warner CEO Richard Parsons has become the latest foreign big shot to be bitten by the bug to produce his own wine in Italy. Parsons recently ac…
Representatives of Italian Muslims met government officials in Rome on Wednesday for the first session of the country's newly-founded Islamic Council.…
The Italian passion for espresso could soon be celebrated in the country's first-ever coffee museum, which a die-hard caffeine fan hopes to open here…
Laura Bush is expected to pay a courtesy call on Premier Silvio Berlusconi when the wife of United States President George W. Bush stops in the Itali…
Italy has been ranked 18th in a special 'happiness' index drawn up by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD observed t…
Young Italians have less and less time for religion but one in five still prays every day and one in three does so 'sometimes', according to a new s…