Articles by ITALY
(ANSA) - Pop superstar Elton John, who dismissed the recent Live 8 concerts as "boring", appears intent on making sure that his show at the Colosseum…
Michael John Partington reviews an exhibition about the half-forgotten Renaissance poet Vittoria Colonna at Casa Buonarroti in FlorenceThat which the…
(ANSA) - Savona - An Italian couple took out an entire page in a northern Italian newspaper to mourn its pet dog. The death notice in Genoa daily Seco…
(ANSA) - Rome is studying the possibility of launching a major new international cinema festival capable of cutting mustard with the likes of Cannes…
(ANSA) - A statue of saint Jose Maria Escriva, the sometimes controversial founder of the Catholic Opus Dei movement, was installed on Tuesday in a ni…
(ANSA) - An Italian government party has stirred outrage by using the word "mongrel" to describe the possible entry into politics of a Tunisian-born…
(ANSA) - According to a classification of the most successful 100 brands worldwide, Italian luxury fashion brand Gucci, estimated at $6.6 bln (5.358 b…
Our resident Italian contributor Stefano Rossini, uses the occasion of the start of the Italian football league to analyse the relationships between I…
(ANSA) - Pierluigi Collina, the world's most famous referee, shocked Italian soccer on Monday by quitting because of a row over a sponsorship deal. T…
(ANSA) - The Italian authorities have sent out a ship carrying a team of its top scientists on a mission to find a highly precious commodity - 10,000…
(ANSA) - Lampedusa, August 28 - Migrant-filled boats were towed to safety to the island of Lampedusa and to abeach near Agrigento on Sunday.Officia…
The 62nd edition of the world's oldest cinema festival kicks off in Venice on Wednesday.Read on for an overview of the movies that will be competing f…
(ANSA) - Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu announced today that the first of a series of major anti-terror drill in Italy's largest cities will take p…
(ANSA) - A priceless set of ancient jewellery, probably from Egypt, is the latest archaeological jackpot experts have struck on this southern Italian…
(ANSA) - Here is an overview of the 20 teams competing in the new Serie A season, which kicks off this weekend Juventus: The arrival of French intern…
(ANSA) - The former commissioner of the Italian Red Cross (CRI) sparked a political storm on Thursday when he revealed that his organisation treated…
When we were at the Dolce Vita exhibition in London last April a number of readers who visited the stand asked if we could do more on Italy’s islands,…
The "Gruppo Archeologico Spezzino" dedicated 2005 to escavation in the area of the Carpena castle in this beautiful Ligurian town. Following the imp…
(ANSA) - Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu warned Wednesday that Italy's soccer clubs must be ready to implement the government's new anti-hooliganism…
(ANSA) - The Italian home town of silent movie great Rudolph Valentino is continuing its campaign to revive the actor's legend with a new cinema fes…