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The European Union health agency on Thursday reported a "troubling" surge in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) across Europe, which could be just "the tip of the iceberg". ...

Sunday lunches are a coerstone of Italian life and society, but if you've been invited to one what exactly should you expect? ...

From enjoying a traditional Sunday lunch Italian-style to finding the the country's lesser known World Heritage-listed sites, our weekly newsletter La Bella Vita offers you an essential starting point for eating, talking, drinking and living like an Italian. ...

Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, son of Italy's last king and member of a dynasty discredited for collaborating with fascism, died in Switzerland on Saturday at 86, his lawyer told AFP. ...

Streaming platform DAZN will continue to show Serie A matches in Italy after the league on Monday voted it the main broadcaster until 2029 as part of a deal worth at least 4.5 billion euros. ...

From a flight price cap to LGBT rights and migration, Giorgia Meloni's govement has decreed countless new laws in the past year - but many seem designed for show rather than lasting change. ...

Benito Mussolini (R) and King Vittorio Emanuele III (L) in 1938. Photo: France Presse Voir/AFP Eighty years after Mussolini began persecuting Jews, Italy is putting the dead king who backed his racial laws on trial. The setting may be a theatre, but the prosecutor, witnesses and three judges meeting in Rome are real, their scrutiny of the controversial monarch part of events organised to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Trial comes a few weeks after the remains of Vittorio Emanuele III were discreetly retued to Italy. The king, who ruled from 1900 to 1946, fled in disgrace and died in exile in Egypt in 1948. Three high-ranking judges sit at a table under the motto hanging i...

A woman from Veneto is the first Italian to be fitted with a bionic hand. Almerina Mascarello, who lost her hand in a workplace accident in 1993, was fitted with the prosthetic as part of a six-month experiment at Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli hospital in June 2016. The hand, which has a sense of touch, was built by a team led by professor Silvestro Micera from Pisa’s Sant’Aa School of Advanced Studies and the Polytechnic of Lausaa. “The hand is an improved version of one fitted onto a Danish man in 2014,” Micera was quoted by Corriere as saying. During the experiment, Mascarello was able to use the hand beyond a laboratory thanks to the technology required to make it work being small enough to...

G7 countries and tech giants including Google, Facebook and Twitter on Friday agreed to work together to block the dissemination of Islamist extremism over the inteet. "These are the first steps towards a great alliance in the name of fre...

Pope Francis made his first tweet in March 2013. Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFP The pope has racked up 40 million followers on Twitter, the Vatican said on Wednesday, underlining the Catholic leader's status as one of the world's biggest social media players. The total, spread across accounts in nine languages, leaves Francis neck and neck with his occasional online sparring partner US Presid...

"Inside Caravaggio" opens on Friday at Milan's Palazzo Reale. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP He is known as the master of shade, and now 21st Century technology is shedding new light on the creative process behind Caravaggio's groundbreaking painting. "Inside Caravaggio", an exhibition that opens on Friday at Milan's Palazzo Reale, unites 20 of the Renaissance giant's most important works with...

Rome's public transport authority ATAC has confirmed that a bus driver who swapped the destination on the front of his bus for his own protest message against vaccinations has been suspended. The driver of one of Rome's metropolitan buses had replaced the destination on the digital display at the front of the bus with words of his own: 'vaccinati sto cazzo' (word-for-word translation: vaccinate th...

File photo not related to the story. Photo: Berit Roald/NTB ScanpixInformation is one of the biggest weapons in mode warfare, and as fake news sites lose their power, real news organizations risk being hijacked by the spread of little lies. Joualists and audiences need to fight back. The waing...

A 45-year-old Italian nurse jailed for life for murdering a patient and widely suspected over the deaths of many others at the time has been acquitted on appeal, Italian media reported on Saturday. Daniela Poggiali was arrested in October 2014 in Lugo, northe Italy, and sentenced to life behind ba...

Ilva's Taranto site in southe Italy is at the centre of a huge legal case over toxic emissions. Photo: Alfonso Di VincenzoA consortium led by global steel giant ArcelorMittal said on Friday the Italian authorities had cleared it to buy struggling steel producer Ilva, but thousands of jobs are thre...

Scenery in Macerata, where the 'ghost quake' took place. Photo: clodio/DepositphotosA technical error caused the earthquake experts at Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Ingv) to falsely report a 5.1 magnitude quake in central Italy on Thursday moing. In fact, the quake's ma...

The Ilva steel plant in Taranto. File photo: Donato Fasano/AFPA consortium led by global steel giant ArcelorMittal has been chosen to take over Italy's huge but struggling steel producer Ilva, the Italian govement said on Monday. Economic development minister Carlo Calenda said in a statement that...

Ignazio Marino at a news conference where he withdrew his resignation on October 30, 2015. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPAn Italian judge on Friday acquitted former Rome mayor Ignazio Marino in a tax fraud case which could have seen him handed a three-year jail term. Marino risked jail on charges of false expense claims totalling 12,000 euros ($14,000) and 6,000 euros of tax fraud. Judge Pierluigi Balestrieri cited a "lack of proof" over the allegations as he acquitted Marino, a member of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's centre left Democratic Party. Marino, subject of a 600,000 euros damages claim form the municipality, had denied any wrongdoing. "I am happy. I expected this result as I knew I...

A Twitter account claiming to belong to Anita Raja on Tuesday night "confirmed" media reports that the translator was behind the successful Elena Ferrante novels, sending Italian media into a frenzy. But by Wednesday moing, it seemed that the account was a fake. The account, was created on Tuesday evening, with a tweet saying it would only stay open temporarily to allow for an "explanation".It used the handle @AnitaRajaSta - 'Sta' being an abbreviation for the suame of Raja's husband, writer Domenico Staone - and followed 48 accounts of joualists and news organizations (including The Local Italy). "I confirm it. I'm Elena Ferrante. But this doesn't change anything regarding readers' relation...

Migrants arriving in Reggio Calabria, in southe Italy. Photo: Giovai Isolino/AFPAn online project seeking to discourage migrants dreaming of a better life in Italy from making the dangerous jouey to central Europe was launched by the Italian govement on Thursday. “Europe’s migrant crisis is an epochal struggle,” Italy’s Interior Minister, Angelino Alfano told joualists in Rome. “This communication campaign is just one of the ways in which we are seeking to tackle the crisis.” The €1.5 million project, called ‘Migrant Aware’, will use a series of videos and recordings published online to wa sub-Saharan Africans of the dangers they face when crossing the Sahara Desert and Mediterranean Sea wit...