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Premier Silvio Berlusconi accused Italy's centre-left opposition on Monday of having whipped up a smear and hate campaign against him to try to muster…
A wall of Rome's controversial Ara Pacis museum was spattered in bursts of red and green paint on Monday in an attack by unidentified vandals.Police a…
Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Monday he will meet United States President Barack Obama on June 15 in Washington for talks ahead of July's Group of Ei…
Chelsea Football Club officially announced on its website Monday morning that it has hired Italian Carlo Ancelotti to be its new coach.The London club…
A federal bankruptcy court has given its green light to the sale of key assets of American carmaker Chrysler to Italy's Fiat, the New York Times repor…
Local officials behind a bid to include the Dolomite mountain range in UNESCO's World Heritage List believe the United Nations' cultural and natura…
Fiat has decided to let its offer for German automaker Opel stand unchanged and will not attend further talks with German government officials.…
Italy's year-on-year inflation rate fell to 0.9% this month, its lowest since November 1968, when it was 0.7%, national statistics bureau Istat report…
An Italian soldier was slightly injured in Afghansitan on Friday when his patrol came under attack in the area of Bala Morgab, defense ministry sour…
AC Milan and Fiorentina will face off in their last match of the season on Sunday and the outcome will determine which team will automatically qualify…
More than 500 people had to be evacuated by life boat from a Naples-Palermo ferry on Friday after a fire broke out in the ship's car deck as they sl…
Workmen inside Florence's courthouse have stumbled across a spiral column and hundreds of multicoloured fragments that experts believe may have belong…
Houses for 3,000 people left homeless by the April 6 earthquake in the Abruzzo capital of L'Aquila and surrounding villages will be ready by mid Septe…
Thanks to the strong ties it has with both countries, Italy is in a position to help stabilise relations between Russia and Georgia, Italian Foreign M…
Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday said the three greatest evils facing Italy were criminals, magistrates and journalists.''I've always said that f…
Fiat on Thursday found itself forced to re-think its bid for German automaker Opel after General Motors reportedly upped the price for its European ma…
AC Milan and Fiorentina will face off in their last match of the season on Sunday and the outcome will determine which team will automatically qualify…
AC Milan's Brazil forward Ricardo Kaka shrugged off reports from Spain on Thursday that he was set to join Real Madrid, saying he was happy playing at…
An unusual new exhibition here contrasts the art of controversial 20th-century photographer Robert Mapplethorpe with that of Renaissance master Michel…
Former British premier Margaret Thatcher met briefly with Pope Benedict XVI at the end of his weekly general audience in St Peter's square on Wednesda…