LGBT rights protesters in Milan earlier this year . Photo: Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFPItaly's top court on Tuesday upheld a ruling granting permission for a Roman woman to adopt her female partner's seven-year-old daughter. As rulings passed by Italy's top court hold precedent over the decisions of l...

Sales of prosecco could suffer badly if Britain leaves the EU. Photo: Vincenzo Pito/AFPThere will be no corks popping in Italy if Britain votes to leave the EU on Thursday: winemakers fear Brexit could burst prosecco's bubble in its number one export market. Coldiretti, the association of Italian fo...

Italy is looking to regulate its pizza makers. Photo: Jefferey W/FLickrAn Italian senator presented a 'pizza makers' bill' Tuesday, which aims to create a professional registry of all Italian pizza chefs. If successful, the bill will establish a nationally regulated pizza-making qualification, which...

Luca Vullo, the director of INFLUX. Photo: Mauro GalluzoIn a period when European immigration is continuously debated in politics, a new documentary offers an emotional self-analysis that reveals the strengths and weaknesses of Italians living in London. Mauro Galluzzo meets the director of INFLUX, ...

Forty-six Italians have been injured in a bus crash on the A2 motorway just south of Vienna yesterday afte oon. The crash occurred when a tour bus carrying the group of Italian tourists rear-ended a stationary truck carrying paper towels on the motorway between Grimmenstein and Seebenstein around 12...

Italy will play Spain in the last 16 of Euro 2016. Photo: Pascal Pavani/AFPSpain boss Vicente del Bosque admitted he would rather have avoided a Euro 2016 last 16 clash with old foes Italy after a 2-1 defeat to Croatia on Tuesday. Ivan Perisic's goal three minutes from time condemned the two-timexa0...

Will Raggi back the campaign to bring the 2024 Olympics to Rome? Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPGiovanni Malago, the president of Rome's Olympic bid, has called on new mayor Virginia Raggi to work with him on the campaign to bring the 2024 Games to the Ete al City. Raggi, who was elected on Sunday, said d...

Boonrod when he was found, and in his new home. Photo: Soi Dog FoundationBoonrod - whose name translates as 'the saved one' - is the only dog saved from the canine meat trade to have been adopted in Italy. He was rescued from a clandestine butchers' located in a basement in Thailand, when Thai polic...

Photo: Private.Not all educations are created equal. Why does everyone in the hospitality industry fight for graduates of Swiss Education Group? The Local finds out. Not everyone gets the chance to shape their career after their passion. But Swede Sophie Wikström did – and not just for one passion, ...

The roof of a school in Milan caught fire during maintenance work on Tuesday. Photo: YouReporterSome 66 children have been evacuated from a school in Milan, after its roof caught fire during routine maintenance work. The roof of the Rudolf Steiner school in Milan's easte suburb of Lambrate burst int...

Italian fashion icon Giorgio Armani has said he hopes Britain remains in the EU. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFPGiorgio Armani has urged Britain to stay in the European Union, wa ing that the bloc would be worse off without England's influence on fashion and design. "I'm in favour of the British staying ...

A quarter of Italy's school canteens fail to meet hygine standards. Photo: Bowy Gavid Bowie Chan/FlickrItaly may take great pride in its cuisine, but parents of children in its schools will be conce ed by a new report suggesting as many as a quarter of Italian school canteens fail to meet hygiene st...

The move comes in a bid to crack down on olive oil fraud. Photo: Dave Fayram/FlickrIn the latest move to protect one of its most famous exports, Italy has increased fines for misleading packaging on olive oil to up to €18,000. Sanctions for manufacturers who flout the country's strict olive oil pack...

Marino is accused of using city hall funds for personal dinners. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPFormer mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino, will stand a fast-track trial in September over the expenses scandal which saw him toppled from city hall last October. Marino appeared at a pre-trial hearing on Monday - t...

Virginia Raggi is Rome's first female mayor. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFPAs Rome's first female mayor, Virginia Raggi faces a series of challenges described by one expert as "mission impossible". Here are some of the top issues she will be grappling with:xa0 xa0TransparencyThe city's administration has b...

George Cunningham wa s that many Brits abroad will have missed the chance to vote.Thousands of British voters abroad might find their vote in this week's crucial referendum is wasted, after some local councils left sending out ballots until the last minute and some post offices on the continent refu...

The newbo was found next to a set of bins. Photo: IndeZènt/FlickrA newbo baby boy was saved from almost certain death after a woman found him inside a plastic bag by her neighbourhood rubbish bins. The woman found the crying child with its umbilical cord still attached as she threw out her rubbish o...

Brexit vote Photo: Jessica Jones/The Local The Local · 20 Jun 2016, 17:01 Published: 20 Jun 2016 17:01 GMT+02:00 Brits living in other European countries are among the most likely to want the UK to stay in the EU. In a new video from The Local, eight of them tell us why. In a survey of Brits living ...

(L) Chiara Appendino, mayor of Turin and (R) Virginia Raggi, mayor of Rome. Photos: Marco Bertorello/Filippo Monteforte/AFPFounded by comedian Beppe Grillo, the radical Five Star Movement burst onto the political scene in 2009, in the middle of Italy’s financial crisis. With Silvio Berlusconi still ...

Renzi's Democratic Party lost control of Rome and Turin on Sunday. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPPrime Minister Matteo Renzi's party on Monday said the outcome of municipal elections was a "painful" blow after Italy's populist movement notched up spectacular gains. "It's definitely a defeat for us. Losi...