Milan demonstrators during a march to remember the victims of organized crime in 2010. Photo: Damien Meyer/AFPAn anti-mafia prosecutor has called on Italians to denounce mobsters after police arrested 26 people Thursday in a drug sting that revealed the grip southe crime groups have on the country's...

Luigi Di Maio, the heir apparent to the Five Star Movement, and founder Beppe Grillo. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPItaly's populist Five Star Movement has thrown down the gauntlet to the gove ment in an unexpected political manoeuvre that could not only endanger a bill allowing gay civil unions but risk...

Pope issued a statement criticizing the Pope on Thursday. Photo: Jim Watson/AFPWhen Republican frontrunner Donald Trump offered a provocative retort on Thursday to criticism by Pope Francis, it may have been a calculated political move to boost his standing ahead of South Carolina's presidential pri...

Many witnesses saw a meteorite fall over northe Italy on Wednesday evening. Photo: YouReporterA streaking fireball brighter than the full moon lit up skies over northe Italy on Wednesday evening. The fireball left a trail of vapour hanging in the sky for minutes.Not long after the unusual event, pic...

Some 900 jobs could go as a result of a tie-up between Italy's Meridiana and Qatar Airways. Photo: Paco Serinelli/AFPSome 900 jobs are on the line as a result of a planned partnership between the Italian airline, Meridiana, and Qatar Airways. La Stampa reported that the Sardinia-based carrier has as...

A red Tuscan wine produced by the British singer Sting on his estate near Florence has been named among the top 101 wines in Italy. Sting has certainly been making the most of his Tuscan estate, Tenuta Il Paglio, which he bought from an Italian duke in 1998 for €3.5 million.xa0 Back then it was just...

Bilal Erdogan moved to Bologna last August. Photo: Ozan Kose/AFPItalian prosecutors are investigating the son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for money laundering amid accusations he smuggled large amounts of cash into the country, a judicial source told AFP on Thursday. A probe was launch...

Matteo Marzotto, his sister Diamante and businessman Massimo Caputi were given nominal ten-month prison sentences. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFPTwo members of the Marzotto family, owners of the Italian textile company of the same name, and a group executive were convicted Wednesday of tax fraud, local ...

Police discovered the students were using converted marker pens to smoke weed in school. in Turin. Photo: Carabinieri TorinoA group of students in Turin thought they had come up with the perfect way to bring drugs to school and consume them without getting caught. But they weren't fooling anybody. T...

Rome presented its plans for its 2024 Olympics bid on Wednesday. Photo: Gabriel Buoys/AFPWith a backdrop including the Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica and the Circus Maximus, Italian officials are hoping the "great beauty" of Rome is enough to secure them the 2024 Olympic Games. But at a glitzy and ...

Italy: no country for entry-level workers. Photo: Kailash Gyawali/FlickrItalians starting their professional careers ea much less than their peers in other weste European countries. At least that's according to a report by the UK-based business adviser, Willis Towers Watson. The 2016 Global 50 Remun...

Italy's bank and corporate stocks have had a volatile start to the year. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFPA stalled economic recovery; billions wiped off major bank and company stocks; public debt creeping up; unemployment up again in December. It's been a bleak start to the year for Italy's economy, despi...

Czech musician Lukas Vendl plays after the recently discovered music notes composed by the Austrian and Italian composers. Photo: Mikel Cizek/AFPLost for over 200 years, a cantata co-written by classical maestros Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri rang out in public for the first time on Tu...

The 60-strong task force of art detectives and restorers will work for Unesco. Photo: Fillipo Monteforte / AFPItaly unveiled a 60-strong task force of art detectives and restorers on Tuesday, ready to protect the world's crisis-hit heritage sites for UNESCO in a cultural version of the UN's famous B...

Migrants wait to cross the Slovenian-Austrian border in Go ja Radgona last September. Photo: Jure Makovec/AFPAustria is to step up border controls with Italy, Slovenia, Hungary, the country's gove ment said on Tuesday. The Austrian gove ment announced on Tuesday itxa0would step up border controls at...

Giulio Regeni was buried last Friday. His family has denied he was a spy. Diego Petrussi/AFPThe family of Giulio Regeni, the student brutally murdered in Cairo earlier this month, has denied he was a spy. The denial came after reports in the Italian media speculated that the 28-year-old had collabor...

The museum will be located in the town where Mussolini was bo . Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFPThe Italian gove ment is reportedly ready to break a 70-year taboo by funding a controversial museum dedicated to fascism in Benito Mussolini's hometown of Predappio - a place of pilgrimage for mode -day fans of t...

The explosion tore through a building in central Naples. Photo: Screengrab/Pupia CampaniaA 22-year-old British student was among those hurt in an explosion which ripped through a building in Naples late on Monday night. The woman, an Erasmus student, was taken to Cardarelli hospital but her injuries...

The town of Ve azza, one of the Cinque Terre. Photo: Daniel StockmanPlans are afoot to limit tourist access to one of Italy's most beautiful and iconic locations. The five colourful, terraced fishing villages that make up the Cinque Terre on the Ligurian coastline are visited by some 2.5 million tou...

Pantaleo Piccinno checks an olive tree partly infected by xylella fastidiosa at the Caprarica di Lecce estate. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFPItalian olive grower Federico Manni is at the end of his tether. "You see this one," he says, waving in the direction of a majestic butxa0diseased olive tree on his p...