British expats living in the EU would face years of legal uncertainty after Brexit, a UK parliamentary committee concludes, adding weight to the worries of many Britons abroad. The conclusions of the committee will only heighten the fears expressed by many British citizens living in the EU that Brex...

Graffiti at the Brenner border. Jörg Wojahn/TwitterA third protest against border controls is set to take place this Saturday at the Brenner border between Italy and Austria. Left-wing Italian demonstrators are planning a day of action at Brenner, although they have not applied for official permissi...

Migrants in Emilia-Romagna have been given a new Pakistani cook after they complained about the Italian food on offer. Renata F. Olivera/FlickrA Pakistani chef has been brought in to cater for 200 people living at a refugee centre in Emilia-Romagna, after they protested over the poor quality of the ...

Microsoft has bought the Italian firm Solair. Photo: Josh Edelson/AFPMicrosoft on Tuesday announced it has bought an Italian firm specializing in connecting smart objects in the Inte et of Things (IoT), continuing its push into cloud computing. The US technology colossus did not disclose how much it...

The Who have announced two concerts in Italy this summer. Photo: Theo Wargo/AFP/Getty ImagesBritish rock group The Who have announced two Italian concerts as part of a European tour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their breakthrough year. The band will play a concert on September 17th at Bologn...

As if getting your tongue around the Italian language wasn’t enough, you have to get your hands around it too. There are countless picture lists out there which endeavour to teach foreigners what Italians mean when they let their hands do the talking. Even gesticulating male models, borrowed from th...

The Italian navy said it is ready to raise the wreck of a migrant boat from the seabed. Photo: Panayitos Tzamaros/AFPThe Italian navy said on Tuesday it is ready to raise a boat which sank off Libya last year and recover the bodies of hundreds of victims believed to have been trapped inside. Taking ...

Following Leicester's league win, Claudio Ranieri is the man of the moment. Photo: Jean Christophe Magnenet/AFPIn what people are calling the greatest sports' story ever, rank outsiders Leicester City FC clinched the English Premier League title on Monday. This was in no small part thanks to the inp...

Molise has 35km of largely unspoilt coastline. Photo: Renata Virzinate/FlickrChallenge your friends to a game of 'who can name all of Italy's regions?' and Molise will probably be the last one they say – if they say it at all. Among Italians from the other 19 regions of Italy, it's fair to say Molis...

Italy's highest court finally acquitted the homeless man over the food theft. Photo: Gabriel Buoys/AFPItaly's highest court has acquitted a homeless man of stealing cheese and sausages, ruling that the theft of small amounts of food by the hungry poor is not a crime. Ukranian Roman Ostriakov was cau...

Italian luxury sports car maker Ferrari said on Monday it clocked up its best profits ever in the first quarter, setting it up for record ea ings for the full year 2016. Net profit rose 19 percent in the first three months of the year from thexa0same period in 2015, to €78 million ($89.7 million). R...

Chinese police will patrol busy tourist sites in Rome and Milan. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPFour Chinese policemen will patrol the streets of Rome and Milan alongside their Italian counterparts for the next two weeks to help protect wealthy visitors from China during a peak tourism period, officials f...

€40 million will go to the ancient city of Pompeii. Photo: Kimberly RossItaly said on Monday it was earmarking €1 billion for cultural investments, including restoration works in Pompeii, the Uffizi gallery in Florence and the earthquake-hit city of L'Aquila. Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said...

Italy and Japan are set to ask the G7 for more flexible budget policies. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP AFP · 2 May 2016, 14:42 Published: 02 May 2016 14:42 GMT+02:00 Italy and Japan want the upcoming summit of Group of Seven leaders to send a "strong signal" of support for using flexible budget poli...

Italian marines Massimiliano Latorre (R) and Salvatore Girone (L) pictured in Kochi, India, in December 2012. Photo: Strdel/AFPA UN tribunal on Monday ruled that Italian marine Salvatore Girone, who has been held in India for over four years over the 2012 shooting of two fishermen, should be allowed...

The couple were identified as Abderrahim Moutaharrik, a kickboxer, and wife Salma Bencharki. Photo: Polizia di StatoA man arrested in Italy last week has denied he was planning to join Isis jihadists in Syria. Abderrahim Moutaharrik, a 28-year-old kickboxing champion who along with his wife, Salma B...

The man allegedly stole the gold teeth at a cemetery near Siena. Photo: Martin KalfatovicFlickrA cemetery worker has been charged for allegedly stealing gold teeth from a body dug up at a graveyard in a town near Siena. The 50-year-old man, who works for a graveyard contractor, allegedly stole the t...

American expat John Henderson on his 60th birthday in Syracuse, Sicily. Photo: Marina PascucciThere’s always a time of reflection when milestone birthdays come and go. Pessimists think, Where have I been? Optimists think, Where am I going? I tu ed 60 two weeks ago, and I’m looking at it from a diffe...

The Edge played a concert in the Sistine Chapel on Saturday. Photo: Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images/AFPLegendary U2 guitarist The Edge played the first ever rock concert under the famous frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. The 54-year-old guitarist, whose real name is David Evans, was in Rome over the weeken...

Courts have been finding in favour of gay couples since 2014 based on current legislation which favours "emotional continuity" for children. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPTwo gay Italian women on Friday won the right to adopt each other's children in a legal first. All previous verdicts in Italy in f...