One of the first words you’ll probably lea in Italian is tempo, because it means both time and weather. (Of course, that never gets confusing...) These are two subjects that you’ll be forced to disc

Police stand guard at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome during Lazio's match against Eintracht Frankfurt. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Italian police on Thursday arrested five Eintracht Frankfurt fans afte

The court of Milan on Thursday ruled that requiring parents from outside the EU to provide proof of their assets both in Italy and their birth countries in order to get help paying for the school cant

Central Rome will soon be off-limits to tourist coaches. Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFP From January 2019, large tourist buses will no longer be allowed in the historic centre of Rome. Rome's city counc

Camera traps captured images of a beaver in the woods ofxa0Tarvisiano in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the far north-easte co er of Italy that borders both Austria and Slovenia. The same beaver, identified

Under a new amendment to next year's proposed budget, anyone purchasing a new car in Italy between 2019 and 2021 can benefit from incentives of up to €6,000 if they choose a model that emits 90 grams

The policy paper spells out some of the measures that would be taken to protect the citizens' rights of EU nationals living in Britain and those of Britons living throughout the EU if there was a no-d

Be ini's Saint Bibiana on display in the Borghese Gallery. Photo: irisphoto11/DepositPhotos A statue of Saint Bibiana by Italian master Gian Lorenzo Be ini had a finger knocked off as it was retu ed from an exhibition in the Galleria Borghese. The marble statue, which depicts the Roman martyr holdin...

Supporters of the populist Five Star Movement (M5S) gather at the end of the last election campaign meeting by the party leader in Piazza del Popolo in Rome on Friday. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Italian populist and far-right parties have their eye on making major gains in Sunday's election, spoo...

People hold portraits of murdered Slovak jou alist Jan Kuciak and his girlfriend Martina Kusnirova during a silent protest march in their memory on Friday in Bratislava, Slovakia. PHOTO: ALEX HALADA Slovak police on Saturday said they had released seven Italian businessmen detained after they were n...

Francesca Pascale (left), girlfriend of former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi, arrives at the polling booth on Sunday mo ing. Photo: Tiziana Fabi / AFP Italians went to the polls on Sunday in one of the country's most uncertain elections ever, with far-right and populist parties expected to make major...

A man looks at a board with images of the parties' logos. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Italians are heading to the polls today to vote in the country's general election after a rollercoaster of a campaign. Follow our live blog for the latest updates, predictions, and the results when we get them. x...

Davide Astori when playing for Cagliari in 2013. Photo: Simone Ferraro / AFP Italy inte ational defender Davide Astori died in his hotel room during the night of Saturday to Sunday, his club Fiorentina said on Sunday. "Fiorentina are profoundly shocked to have to announce the death of captain Davide...

Customers shopping at Diesel's opening of a real knock-off store on Canal Street during NY Fashion Week. Photo: Ann Presley/AFP Diesel is ditching the catwalk to masquerade as knock-off merchants this Fashion Week, purporting to be a New York fake goods store only to flog customers the real thing. I...

A Ryanair plane at Rome's Ciampino airport. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Work stoppages in Italy by Ryanair employees and air traffic controllers caused minimal disruption on Saturday. Ryanair workers -- not including pilots -- staged a four-hour strike over their exclusion from contract negotiations ...

People take part in an anti-racism demonstration in the central Italian town of Macerata on February 10th, 2018 Photo: AFP Thousands of anti-fascist demonstrators rallied in the central Italian town of Macerata on Saturday a week after a far-right gunmen shot and wounded six Africans in a racially-m...

Flavio Briatore. File photo: AFP Flamboyant Italian tycoon and former boss of the Benetton and Renault F1 racing teams Flavio Briatore was Saturday sentenced on appeal to 18 months in jail for tax evasion in connection with his luxury yacht, press reports said. Briatore, whose multi-million-dollar s...

Far-right protesters salute as they face off with police in Macerata. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Italy's President Sergio Mattarella wa ed on Friday against the "grave risks of extreme nationalism" as the country was gripped by high racial tensions ahead of next month's elections. The president was spe...

Lorenzo Baglioni and his 2018 hit about the subjunctive. Photo: screengrab/YouTube If the subjunctive just won't stick and you're fed up of the future simple, we've got the playlist for you. In honour of the 2018 Sanremo festival, here are seven songs that show sometimes the best way to lea Italian ...

The British gove ment announced on Thursday that it would lift a ban on citizens voting in UK elections if they had lived longer than 15 years outside the country. The gove ment statement said that UK citizens would now be able to vote in domestic elections regardless of how long they had been abroa...