Articles by ITALY
(ANSA) - Opposition councillors in the Ligurian town of Stella have called for an exorcist to be brought in to expel the evil spirits they say are pos…
(ANSA) - A once bustling Roman town is slowly re-emerging from the soil thanks to the dedication of a team of Italian archaeologists.Unlike many Roma…
(ANSA) - Italy has made progress in fighting corruption but is still perceived as one of the least clean countries in the 25-member European Union, ac…
(ANSA) - Agnelli heir and Fiat executive Lapo Elkann on Tuesday left the hospital where he was treated for a drug overdose and headed for a drug reh…
(ANSA) - Roberto Benigni's new film La Tigre e la Neve (The Tiger and the Snow) knocked rivals off the box-office perch when it opened this weekend, t…
(ANSA) - Romano Prodi was anointed the leader of the Italian opposition on Monday after thrashing potential rivals in the country's first-ever 'primar…
(ANSA) - Anti-Mafia investigators in Calabria believe the murder of an important local politician on Sunday could be a warning from local clans to the…
More than 4 million people turned out yesterday to vote in the centre-left primary elections. The elections allowed Italians to choose a leader for…
(ANSA) - Italian scientists said this week they have found the biological key to longevity, but warned people wanting to live longer to forget elixir…
(ANSA) - A major new show exploring the impact of Caravaggio on other artists has opened amid polemics over the refusal of two Italian museums to loan…
(ANSA) - Reggio Calabria, October 16 - A southern politician was shot dead by two men on Sunday as he voted in he centre-left primary elections organi…
(ANSA) - One of the most famous and studied paintings of the Renaissance hides a carefully coded map of 15th-century Italian politics, according to a…
(ANSA) - A radical reform of Italy's electoral system championed by Premier Silvio Berlusconi cleared an important parliamentary hurdle on Thursday wh…
(ANSA) - European Security and Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini said on Thursday that he was shocked and dismayed by allegations of abuse at an im…
(ANSA) - Palermo Chief Prosecutor Piero Grasso has been nominated as the next head of Italy's Anti-Mafia operations. Grasso, a 60-year-old with a 30-y…
(ANSA) - A group of top-ranking officers will appear in court on Friday in the second of two trials involving alleged police brutality during the G8 i…
(ANSA) - Fiat heir Lapo Elkann on Wednesday came out of a coma after a drug overdose, doctors said. The 28-year-old Agnelli heir sat up and exchanged…
(ANSA) - Italy clamped down tighter on soccer hooliganism Wednesday with a new law that turns up the heat on troublemakers. The law stiffens punishmen…
(ANSA) - Engineering construction giant Impregilo won a multi-billion-euro contract on Wednesday to build a bridge linking Sicily to the Italian mainl…
Marina Berlusconi, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi's eldest daughter, continues to draw international press attention nearly a week after she was n…