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If you are travelling to Italy with an American Express card, there are a few things you ought to consider beforehand. ...

If you're visiting or staying in Italy for any length of time and are plaing on doing some travelling, a generous neighbour or relative might offer you access to their vehicle. But what does the law say about driving someone else's car in Italy? ...

The carta d'identità is an official identification document attesting to your status as an Italy resident - but can it be used as a travel document? ...

If you’re plaing to apply for Italian citizenship, a language test might be one of the first hurdles you have to overcome. Is your Italian good enough? ...

We asked The Local’s readers in Italy whether they’ve tried making themselves more Italian to fit in, what they’ve done and why they did it. ...

Obtaining Italian citizenship is not a simple matter, even if you are bo in Italy. So which children are eligible, and which aren't? ...

Where can you use your Italian mobile phone without being charged and where should you be wary of roaming fees? ...

Whether you’re looking for a family-friendly resort, one with testing slopes or a place with options for non-skiers, Italy has no shortage of alteatives when it comes to holiday destinations. ...

It may not be something you've ever considered in your home country, but if you own a home in Italy you might need additional insurance against floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters. ...

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Baon attends a congress of the far right party "Fratelli d'Italia", in Roma, on September 22, 2018. Photo: Tiziana FABI / AFP. Several hundred people demons...

A sea rescue by Proactiva Open Arms in October 2016. Photo: Aris Messinis/AFPA three-month-old baby has died after being picked up by rescuers at sea off Libya, because bad weather and a lack of boats made a medical evacuation impossible, aid organizations said on Thursday. Over 1,600 migrants have been rescued in the Mediterranean since Tuesday, including many women and children. While some were brought to land on Thursday, hundreds of others could be trapped for days yet by stormy seas. The Proactiva Open Arms and Sea Watch 3, which have plucked over 700 people from unseaworthy vessels between them, are too small to attempt the rough crossing back towards Italy with that number of people a...

A child mummy in Italy was thought to display the oldest medieval evidence of smallpox, but a new DNA analysis shows the disease was actually hepatitis B, researchers said on Thursday. The small child was buried in the Basilica of Saint Domenico Maggiore in Naples, Italy during the 16th century, according to the study in the joual PLOS Pathogens. An apparent facial rash led experts to believe, initially, that the child had smallpox, also known as variola virus. Researchers at McMaster University took a second look, using small tissue samples of skin and bone to identify fragments of DNA. Their genomic analysis showed the virus was hepatitis B, which attacks the liver and can also cause a ras...

Italian motorcycling ace Valentino Rossi has revealed he is afraid to stop racing and intends to tu to cars when his career on two wheels ends. The 38-year-old nine-time world champion -- who is driving a Ford Fiesta in Milan this weekend as he bids for a record sixth win at the Monza Rally Show -- said his dream was to race the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race in France."I'm afraid of stopping. After the end of my career in MotoGP, I will have another ten years in the automobile sport," Rossi told Italy's Radio Deejay on Friday."I'll keep going as long as I'm competitive and feel like it, of course I'm a bit scared of normal life," continued Rossi, adding he has no time fo...

Italian police were questioning five Chinese minors on Tuesday on suspicion of murder after a man was apparently suffocated by his teenage ex-boyfriend in a revenge attack. The victim Hu Congliang, 20, is believed to have been dating one of the five in Modena, a city in northe Italy near Prato, where there is a very large Chinese community. When the 17-year-old boyfriend tried to break up with him, Hu allegedly threatened to make public intimate photographs of the minor he had saved on his telephone. "From what we understand so far, the punitive mission was prompted by the photographs," deputy police chief Marcello Castello told the media. "All five say t...

People greet Pope Francis in Yangon. Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AF Pope Francis arrived in mainly Buddhist Myanmar on Monday on a highly sensitive visit to a country facing sharp global criticism for the alleged ethnic cleansing of its Rohingya Muslim minority. Catholics in colourful ethnic traditional dress waved flags and danced at Yangon's airport in a joyful welcome for the pope, making the first visit to the country by a pontiff. The visit comes as Myanmar's military stands accused of waging an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya Muslims. More than 620,000 have fled a crackdown in northe Rakhine state for neighbouring Bangladesh over the past three months. &...

Italian Ferrari automobiles are on display at the Corso Sempione in Milan before taking to the road towards Maranello, the home of Ferrari, to celebrate the Prancing Horse's 70th aiversary, on SepteIt's the black prancing horse's 70th birthday and gleaming Ferraris are out in force in Italy this weekend to celebrate. Some 500 sleek, purring sports cars are gathering in Milan on Friday before the...

The Peutinger Table. Reproduction by Conradi Millieri - Ulrich Harsch Bibliotheca Augustana. Wikimedia CommonsDid all roads really lead to Rome? History lecturers Caillan Davenport and Shushma Malik investigate whether there's any truth behind the proverb. We all know the phrase “all roads lead to Rome”. Today, it is used proverbially and has come to mean something like “there is more than one way to reach the same goal”. But did all roads ever really lead to the eteal city? There was a close coection between roads and imperial power. In 27 B.C, the emperor Augustus supervised the restorat...

Austria is building up a stronger police and military presence on it borders in an attempt to reduce the number of asylum seekers trying to enter via Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary. Austria is to reinforce its border with Italy, according to several newspaper reports in both Italy and Austria...

Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni said the forecast "brings confidence about our country's possibilities". Photo: Julian Waand/AFPItaly’s economy received a small boost on Monday after the Inteational Monetary Fund (IMF) upped its 2017 and 2018 growth forecast for the country. Italian GDP is forecast t...

Smoke rises from the slopes of Mount Vesuvius. Photo: Eliano Imperato/AFPItalian mafia expert and writer Roberto Saviano on Wednesday evening blamed "criminal organizations" for the huge fire which has spread over the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, as the Italian army were deployed to tackle the blaze. S...