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Award-winning Italian director Gianni Amelio was named Wednesday as the new head of the Turin Film Festival.Amelio, 63, replaces acclaimed auteur Nann…
An Italian-led team of archaeologists has discovered vases containing perfumed ointment of the type used to anoint Jesus's feet in the Bible at a dig…
There is still a ''deep chasm'' between statutes set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and reality, Italian President Giorgio Na…
Italy plans to send more troops in Afghanistan next year, raising their number from 2,270 to 2,800, Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa told the Senate'…
Italy on Wednesday found itself battered by a major pre-winter storm with heavy snow in the north and high winds and seas in the south.The storm front…
AC Milan midfielder Gennaro Gattuso on Wednesday vowed to fight back from an cruciate injury stoppage that could keep him out for most of the season.'…
Former Chelsea star Gianfranco Zola has been rated one of the top five foreign players ever to grace the Premier League.In a fan blog on the Times web…
The European Union is making ''important steps forward'' towards a ''balanced'' compromise on its climate package, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini sa…
Italian gay rights groups were up in arms on Tuesday after state broadcaster RAI censored several key scenes in a late-night showing of Ang Lee's 2005…
Fans of third-division soccer club Pescara have reportedly threatened to boycott next weekend's regional elections in Abruzzo unless Premier Silvio Be…
UEFA's deal with Italian TV companies for coverage of the Champions League has been extended for the next three years.Once again, pay-TV satellite bro…
AC Milan midfielder Gennaro Gattuso is facing a long injury stop after a scan on Tuesday revealed he tore an anterior crociate ligament - one of socce…
Inter Milan's Portuguese winger Ricardo Quaresma has claimed Italy's 'Golden Bin' (Bidone d'Oro) award for the player who produces the most rubbish on…
Siena has topped an influential ranking of quality of life across Italy which confirmed a wide North-South gap and showed the worst overall results in…
La Scala on Monday hailed the opening night of the season as a success, playing down a fraught run-up to the evening that included an almost unprecede…
Pope Benedict XVI prayed for struggling families and the jobless on Monday as he paid homage to a statue of the Virgin Mary in Rome's famed Piazza di…
Italy is sticking to its guns over demands to ease the European Union's climate package in light of the global financial crisis, Foreign Minister Fran…
The era of independent national carmakers is over, Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne said Monday.''The party's over,'' Marchionne told industry magazine Auto…
Italy's World Cup skiing team is returning to Europe from America this week buoyed by two surprise wins in the longer events.Peter Fill notched the fi…
''This is just the start,'' said Inter Milan star Zlatan Ibrahimovic after the Serie A leaders demolished Lazio 3-0 at the Olimpico to keep their six-…