Officers at the scene in the aftermath of the shooting. Photo: Guardia Civil/Twitter Italian authorities are seeking to extradite a man suspected of murdering two people in northe Italy earlier this year after he was captured in a shootout in Spain. Igor Vaclavic, a Serbian national who also goes by...

Italy has been chasing Amazon for taxes owed. Photo: Loic Venance/AFP Amazon has agreed to pay the Italian taxman €100 million to settle a dispute over suspected tax fraud, the Italian revenue service said on Friday. Italian authorities have been investigating Amazon for tax evasion in the period be...

Pope Francis. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP Pope Francis will meet Jordan's King Abdullah II at the Vatican next week, the Holy See announced on Friday, as Palestinians continue to clash with Israeli forces over US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Demonstrati...

The key conce s focus on the takeover of the club by Chinese businessman Li Yonghong (C). Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP AFP [email protected] @thelocalitaly 16 December 2017 12:12 CET+01:00 AC Milan face penalties from UEFA after European football's gove ing body said on Friday it had failed to strike a d...

Paolo Nespoli pictured ahead of the mission in July this year. Photo: Vyacheslav Oseledko/ AFP Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli retu ed to Earth on Thursday after 139 days in space. He landed at 9:38 Italian time in Kazakhstan, along with fellow crew members American Randy Bresnik of the United State...

Christmas shopping in Rome. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP For many of us, Christmas is a time of the year to indulge and treat ourselves, spending extra time with friends and family and tucking in to plenty of delicious food. But it's also a good time to think about helping those who might be having...

Italy has passed a law that will allow people to decide what medical treatment they receive at the end of their life. The Italian Senate approved the legislation on Thursday by 180 votes to 71, with six abstentions. The result, which gave the final green light to a measure that passed the Lower Hous...

Anti-mafia police in Sicily. Photo: DIA/AFP Italian police were searching the homes and businesses of known allies of mobster Matteo Messina Denaro on Thursday, looking for hidden bunkers where the fugitive godfather may be hiding. Two hundred officers were executing search warrants in farmhouses an...

A woman in Milan wears a Vladimir Putin T-shirt. Photo: Olivier Morin/AFP There is no evidence of Russian interference in recent votes in Italy, Italian intelligence agencies told parliament, after former US vice president Joe Biden suggested otherwise. In a recent article for Foreign Affairs magazi...

Deckchairs by the Tiber in 2008. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP Rome will tu its riverside into an artificial beach for summer 2018, the capital's mayor has announced. Inspired by the French capital's long-running Paris Plage, Mayor Virginia Raggi plans to convert 10,000 square metres of the Tiber's bank...

After 120 years, Juventus Football Club -- also known as The Old Lady of Turin -- has finally opened its doors to an elite women's team, which is shaking up the world of women's football in Italy. Since September, Rita Guarino's Juventus women have swept aside their rivals with eight wins from eight...

A man casts his ballot during Italy's constitutional referendum last December. File photo: AFP Italy's parliament is likely to be dissolved between Christmas and New Year, with an election expected in early March. Here's what you need to know ahead of the campaign. 1. The timeline The date has not y...

A statue of poet Ovid in the city where he was exiled. Photo: Kurt Wichmann/Wikimedia Commons Rome's city council has called for Ovid to have his exile from the Italian capital revoked -- 2,000 years after the ancient poet died. The Five Star Movement (M5S), which has the majority in the council and...

Ryanair desks at Rome's Ciampino airport. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP AFP [email protected] @thelocalitaly 15 December 2017 13:42 CET+01:00 Ryanair pilots in Italy are to suspend their planned strike action scheduled for Friday afte oon after management of the Irish low-cost airline offered to recogni...

Crib figures on sale n Naples. Photo: Carlo Hermann/AFP Nativity scenes appear in homes, churches and public buildings across the country in December, each one a little different. But while they may be a staple of the Christmas season, there's nothing traditional about these quirky examples... 1. Th...

Italian President Sergio Mattarella, the man whose job it will be to call the next election. Photo: Jussi Nukari / Lehtikuva / AFP Two days after Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni's one-year anniversary of taking the country's top job, Italy's political parties have reached an agreement on when next ye...

The Saint Lucia's Day parade in Syracuse, Sicily. Photo: Fabrizio Villa/AFP Say “Santa Lucia” and most people think of Scandinavians carrying candles – but Saint Lucy’s day on December 13th is also a big event in parts of her Italian homeland. Who was she? The historical Lucia came from what is toda...

Italy's Court of Cassation. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Clicking 'like' on a terrorist video on Facebook counts as evidence of apology for terrorism, Italy's top court has ruled. Taken alongside other evidence, a Facebook like can be a "serious indication of guilt and therefore justifies pre-trial deten...

A man dressed as Father Christmas, or Babbo Natale, rides a motorbike. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP The Italians do Christmas very well, but there are a few traditions which may seem confusing or downright bizarre to the uninitiated. Here are six of the key ingredients for a truly Italian festive sea...

Google has released its list of most-searched terms in 2017. What does Italians’ search history say about the year in Italy? 1. Italy is (still) obsessed with food In a development that will shock absolutely no one, Italy’s top search terms reveal a fixation with food. Of all the questions that Ital...