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Coordinating the efforts of the Group of Eight and the Group of 20 to combat the global recession was at the center of talks here on Thursday between…
Actor and director Oreste Lionello, who lent his distinctive voice to dub Woody Allen in Italian, has died after a long illness. He was 81.Aside from…
Researchers studying Mount Etna in Sicily have discovered that Europe's most active volcano 'breathes', inflating and deflating in cycles.A study of E…
Italy rugby coach Nick Mallet has called Overmach Parma centre Gilberto Pavan into the squad for Italy's third Six Nations match against Scotland at M…
Serie A leaders Inter Milan are aiming to take advantage of tough matches for rivals Juventus and AC Milan to stretch their already large lead at Bolo…
State broadcaster RAI breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday after the first night of the Sanremo songfest reversed a chronic downward trend in viewing f…
Immigrants rioted at an expulsion centre on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa Tuesday, setting fire to parts of the facility.Police said the mi…
Outgoing opposition leader Walter Veltroni on Wednesday apologised for having failed as leader of the Democratic Party he helped to create, urging mem…
A local woman driver who hit a child and then drove off, only to return later to seek compensation from the child's parents for damages sustained to h…
Soccer fever returns to the Vatican Thursday as the third annual Clericus Cup kicks off between priests and trainee clergymen.The inaugural match is e…
AC Milan forward Kaka is hoping David Beckham will be released by the LA Galaxy so he can end his career in Milan.''I hope Milan can reach a deal with…
Chianti Classico is the world's most cloned wine, the Chianti Classico Consortium said Tuesday, announcing the creation of a special task force to…
Italy will push to have the US government fulfill a contract to buy presidential helicopters from an Italian-controlled company, Foreign Minister F…
A Ligurian wine maker is preparing to drop 6,200 bottles of spumante into the sea off the coast of Portofino where they will mature on the ocean fl…
Alessandro Nesta's season ended Tuesday after an operation to resolve his chronic back problems, AC Milan said Monday. Nesta, 32, who this year h…
A 13-year-old schoolboy stabbed his music teacher with a kitchen knife, leaving the blade stuck in the teacher's back as he made his escape. The…
There is not a lot of information about the level of accessibility in Italian art cities so we are happy to share with you the account of a traveller…
The curtain is about to go up on Italy's biggest musical event of the year, the Sanremo songfest, amid furious polemics from gay rights groups and…
Italians abandoned some 14,000 dogs on roads and motorways last summer as they set off on holiday, animal rights group AIDAA said Monday. AIDAA…
Italian tourists more than made up for a decline in foreign guests in hotels over the Christmas period but operators appear pessimistic about the f…