Italian chocolate giant Ferrero is set to tu over €10 billion this year. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFPItalian confectionery giant Ferrero is set to become the first Italian food company to rake in more than €10 billion in a year. Seventy years since being founded in Alba, Piedmont, Ferrero now stands a...

The German professor was stopped while passing through security at Fiumicino's Terminal 1. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPA university professor from Germany was charged with illegal possession of human remains after a human skull was found in his suitcase at Rome’s Fiumicino airport. The man, who was abo...

The Ciampini bar, where the explosion happened. Photo: Screengrab/Google MapsA 48-year-old worker at the popular Ciampini bar in Rome's historic centre was killed on Sunday in an explosion. The cause of the explosion in the bar's basement has not yet been confirmed but was thought to be due either t...

Former Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has announced two gigs in Rome this summer at the iconic Roman hippodrome, Circus Maximus. Gilmour will play on July 2nd and 3rd, with tickets going on sale from 10am on April 7th. Priced between €60 and €120, tickets will be available from rockinroma.com, p...

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (R) with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (L) in January. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFPItalian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will travel to Iran next week for a two-day trip that will make him the first major leader to visit since the lifting of inte ational sanctions aga...

Austrian police clashed with Italian protesters on Sunday outside Brenner. Photo: Screengrab/La RepubblicaAustria plans to deploy soldiers at its border with Italy as part of a “massive” effort to step up border controls amid growing conce s among politicians about migrants and refugees. The move wa...

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, the ex Ferrari president, is among the Italians named in the Panama Papers. Photo: Gabriel Buoys/AFPAbout 800 Italians , including ex-Ferrari president Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, have been cited in a massive leak of information which shows how world leaders, business p...

Economic Development Minister Federica Guidi resigned after revelations she had tweaked the 2015 to suit her businessman husband. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFPItaly's main opposition parties threw down the gauntlet to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's gove ment on Saturday, with a no-confidence motion over a ...

Italian investigators have widened a probe into a nurse suspected of being a serial killer following pressure from relatives of people died at a Tuscan hospital, media reports said on Saturday. Investigators believe 13 patients, all seriously but not terminally ill,xa0died as a result of being given...

Mohammed Ali Malek (R), the alleged captain of the boat, after being pulled from the water. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPA crack team of Italian forensics experts will help the hundreds of migrants killed in a 2015 shipwreck, the interior ministry said Friday, as the navy prepares to recover the bodies...

File photo of a hospital room. Photo: Rick Kimpel/FlickrA notorious mafia boss, sentenced to life imprisonment for three murders, has instead been serving his time in a private hospital room - at a cost of €700 per day to the Italian taxpayer. The criminal's accommodation has cost the Italian taxpay...

An Italian court has upheld sentence of an American man condemned for killing his sick wife. Photo: Beth Crotez NeavelItaly's top court has upheld a ruling condemning an American man to nine years and four months in jail for killing his chronically ill wife. Sixty-eight year old William Holmes, an A...

A CCTV image of the Brussels attackers released by the Belgian police.An Italian court on Friday approved the extradition to Belgium of an Algerian accused of fabricating false documents used by those responsible for the attacks in Paris and Brussels. A court in Sale o, where Djamal Eddine Ouali was...

Milan's Duomo is undergoing construction work on its spires. Photo: AFPBeauty comes at a cost; a truth known both to Italy's world famous fashion houses and those working on conserving its equally renowned historic monuments. Several of the biggest names in Italian and inte ational fashion are comin...

Federica Guidi quit as economic development minister, with Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPItalian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi faced calls to resign on Friday after one of his ministers was forced to quit over allegations she tweaked the country's 2015 budget to sui...

A church in Biella, where the priest works. Photo: stefano Merli/FlikcrDon Andrea Giordano is a priest and father to three sons - but he is not in favour of marriage for priests. The 57-year-old former surveyor began training as a priest one year after the death of his wife from cancer. He was ordai...

Rampant Parmesan robbers have stolen €6 million of cheese in the last two years. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPA spike in cheese theft has seen robbers make off with an estimated €6 million worth of Italy's prized Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese over the last two years. “All in all 15,000 wheels have been...

Alright, we confess: not everything you read on The Local this mo ing met our usual standards of accuracy. Yup, in case you’ve been locked in a meeting all mo ing and failed to check the date - it’s April 1st, and The Local’s sites across Europe have made it their mission today to catch you out. So ...

Federica Guidi, who has quit as economic development minister, with Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPItaly's Economic Development Minister Federica Guidi resigned on Thursday after her partner was named in a criminal probe into the illegal disposal of waste from an o...

Plans that could see children aged between six and 13 taught about Italian wine in schools across the country are being mulled by the gove ment. The proposals, which have been laid out in a draft bill, would see schoolchildren spend one hour a week lea ing about Italy's thriving wine industry as par...