Articles by ITALY
MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi was back behind the wheel of a Ferrari Formula 1 car on Thursday test driving the F2008 car which won this year'…
Italy striker Luca Toni said he was happy to hand coach Marcello Lippi a share of the world's unbeaten coaching record with his equaliser in the 1-1 d…
Serie A leaders Inter Milan and third-placed Juventus meet Saturday night in what has long been known as ''the derby of Italy'' - a game which has gai…
The first major work of Renaissance sculpture, Donatello's bronze of David, is nearing the end of a complex restoration process.The statue will be unv…
Genoa is girding itself for battle over the world's best-loved fashion item, jeans, which it says originated among fishermen in the city's port over 5…
Italian scientists continue to make wide use of animals in experiments, despite European Union efforts to reduce the practice, the country's anti-vivi…
An Italian priest was blackmailed after paying for sex, police said Wednesday.The priest reportedly admitted answering a woman's sex ad in a Sicilian…
The sale of Alitalia's flight division is in the final stages and now needs only a green light from Industry Minister Claudio Scajola, the national ca…
A 13-year-old boy who spent too much time playing video games was rushed to hospital in a disoriented and confused state in the southern city of Lecce…
Udinese striker Fabio Quagliarella is out of Italy's Wednesday night friendly with Greece after breaking his nose in a training clash.Italy doctors im…
Surrealist master Rene' Magritte's lifelong dalliance with nature is spotlighted in a major new exhibition in Milan.The show, opening in Palazzo Reale…
Germany and Italy are to set up a joint commission that will probe legal claims linked to the Second World War as well as the fate of thousands of Ita…
A falconry enthusiast in the province of Trento is ready to defy local authorities over their demand that he rid himself of his 'foreign' birds.Lino D…
The government is to crack down on people who leave out poisoned food to kill dogs and other animals, Welfare Undersecretary Francesca Martini said Tu…
An Italian pro-Palestinian activist was arrested with a Briton and an American in the waters off the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as the Israeli navy stopped…
A Milan prosecutor told a Milan court on Tuesday that Lazio Chairman Claudio Lotito should be jailed for 20 months for alleged share-rigging.Lotito an…
Villarreal striker Giuseppe Rossi is to get his first start for Italy in Wednesday night's friendly against Greece in Athens.Coach Marcello Lippi poin…
Italian movie great Federico Fellini's dreams will be on show at next year's Oscars, organisers said here Monday.A Book of Dreams compiled by the dire…
Roberto Saviano, the Italian writer placed under a death sentence by the brutal Camorra clan he exposed in his worldwide bestseller Gomorra, said Mond…
Rome came a step closer to the creation of a National Shoah Museum on Monday after a city council board gave the definitive go-ahead to the project, R…