Italy News

SATURDAY 18 MAY - MESSINA, ITALY. Nautica was scheduled to anchor off the spectacular cliff-top town of Taormina in Sicily.

The internationally known arts festival, founded by the composer Gian Carlo Menotti, will open its 37th season Friday with the traditional speeches, brass fanfare and shower of confetti on the steps of Charleston City Hall.

Young women dressed up as nuns and nurses performed ''sensual'' dances at Silvio Berlusconi's bunga bunga parties, the exotic dancer at the heart of his sex trial said at her first court appearance.

Amid rampant weeds and crumbling stones, Matteo Giunti makes his way to the tomb of Francis Horner MP, a Scottish Whig who co-founded the Edinburgh Review and died, in 1817, in what he would have known as the prosperous Tuscan port of Leghorn.

AMANDA Knox has tapped into the realisation that the media will not leave her in peace.

A British tourist has drowned in front of his wife while swimming in rough seas on a holiday in Italy.

Thousands of protesters, led by trade unionists, have rallied in the Italian capital Rome against the policies of the new coalition government.

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CEVA Logistics, a supply chain company, announced the official opening of the City of Pharma in Italy.

Italian police arrested four suspected hackers Friday, accusing them of having taken control of the Italian branch of the Anonymous network.

Inquest hears that British construction worker died from a single gunshot wound to the head on 8 March 2012, months after being kidnapped in Nigeria Chris McManus, a quantity surveyor from Oldham, had been kidnapped in May 2011 and held with his Italian colleague Franco Lamolinara.

Italian food group Barilla saw its profits slide in fiscal 2012 as continued economic uncertainty and rising raw material prices impacted earnings.

Karima El Mahroug is seen in the witness stand at left as she testifies for the first time in the trial of three Berlusconi aides charged with recruiting her and other women for prostitution, in Milan's courthouse, Italy, Friday, May 17, 2013.

Parma, May 16 - Some 75% of Italians have difficulty following a healthy diet, a report by the Centre for Study and Research on Obesity from the University of Milan said on Thursday.

An encyclopaedia of Italian political slang has shone a light on a colourful and Byzantine world where lawmakers and journalists speak a language you won't find in any ordinary dictionary.

Bari, May 16 - Italy's Muslim community on Thursday said numerous individuals of Islamic faith have suffered physical violence in the southern Italian region of Puglia, as well as in other areas of the nation in recent weeks by "unidentified assailants". Sharif Lorenzini, who heads the Italian Muslim community, said in an interview with ANSA that ... (more)

Various types of pancetta, bacon made from pork belly, on display in Turin, Italy.

Would you live in a leaning tower? Baltimore developer Jeff Goolst is planning two new projects for the city's Little Italy neighborhood that he envisions as a hearkening back to the neighborhood's Old World roots and would include a condominium tower built to resemble the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Stromboli can be a somewhat contentious term, and depending on who you ask, definitions vary somewhat drastically.

Rome, May 16 - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has praised Italy's main political parties for making Premier Enrico Letta's left-right government possible but warned that elements in the political class have not realised the country is on the "razor's edge". Letta's centre-left Democratic Party and ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's People of ... (more)