Alfa Romeo will get back on track. Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Images North America/AFP Alfa Romeo will once more race in Formula 1, the Italian car maker announced on Wednesday, after it agreed a sponsorship deal with Swiss team Sauber. The new Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team will make its debut in the ...

A screenshot of a video showing skinheads at a meeting of Como Senza Frontieres. Via ecoinformazioni arci/YouTube A gang of skinheads barged in on voluntary workers in the city of Como on Tuesday night to denounce their efforts to help migrants in Italy, which they claimed was subject to an “invasio...

Archbishop of Dhaka Cardinal Patrick D'Rozario. Photo: AFP The top Catholic official in Bangladesh hopes Pope Francis's visit there and to Myanmar will bolster moves to alleviate the Rohingya refugee crisis that has put the neighbouring nations in the global spotlight. Despite last week's deal to re...

People greet Pope Francis in Yangon. Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AF Pope Francis arrived in mainly Buddhist Myanmar on Monday on a highly sensitive visit to a country facing sharp global criticism for the alleged ethnic cleansing of its Rohingya Muslim minority. Catholics in colourful ethnic traditional ...

Italy has proposed a web tax that would target inte et giants such as Google and Facebook. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP. Italy’s senate budget committee has approved a proposal to introduce a 6 percent levy on digital sales. The so-called “web tax” is expected to bring an extra €114 million per year i...

David on display at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence. Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFP A court in Florence, home to Michelangelo’s David, has banned the unlicensed commercial use of images of the city’s famous statue in Italy and throughout Europe. The ban, issued on Thursday, aims to stop scalpers o...

The headquarters of Italy's anti-mafia unit in Rome. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP A week after the death of Cosa Nostra boss Toto Riina, key figures in Italy's judiciary and police have wa ed the mafia's tentacles are extending into the virtual world. Gangrenous and omnipresent in the south, the countr...

The burial of mob boss Totò Riina in Sicily earlier this week. Photo: Tullio Filippone/AFP The Local [email protected] @thelocalitaly 24 November 2017 14:52 CET+01:00 This week, The Local's podcast looks at the death of a godfather in Italy, political intrigue in Germany – and a very good reason to m...

Billions of euros will change hands over Black Friday weekend sales across Europe, but despite increasingly accepting the US import, the promotions will be marked by strikes, protests and conce s about over-consumption. Here is how the sales, which stretch four days from Black Friday to Cyber Monday...

Rome prosecutor Giuseppe Pignatone has urged the gove ment not to change the law on the mafia. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP Fearful of losing an uphill battle against the Italian mafia despite a ferocious 25-year fight, key figures in Italy's judiciary have called for anti-mafia hunters to think outsid...

Two of Italy's most famous cheeses, Parmesan and Grana Padano, are being produced with milk from emaciated, sometimes lame cows kept permanently indoors, an animal welfare group said on Saturday. Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) released film it said it had recently obtained from nine farms in Ita...

Italian PM Paolo Gentiloni. Photo: AFP The influx of Tunisian migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Italy is back under control after a spike in numbers at the end of summer, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Saturday. "After some problems over the course of the summer, the accord star...

A crucifix on the wall in a school in Viterbo. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP People across Italy are weighing in on a headteacher’s decision to stop saying prayers and remove Catholic statues at a school in Sicily. Nicolò La Rocca, headmaster

The Codex Leicester. Photo: public domain, via Philip Kurlapski/Wikimedia Commons. Italians will have a rare chance to see one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s most intriguing notebooks when it goes on display in Florence next year. Da Vinci’s Cod

An installation in Rome to mark the Inte ational Day against Violence Against Women on November 25th. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Italian police on Friday launched a campaign to reduce the murder rate against women, which has remained stubbo ly

Gianluigi Buffon takes off his shorts in Turin. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP Footballers usually throw their jersey to fans at the final whistle, but Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon stunned one supporter by giving him his shorts after Wednesd

To be fair, hash does look a lot like chocolate. Photo: rbspace/Depositphotos. The Local [email protected] @thelocalitaly 23 November 2017 16:50 CET+01:00

Italy's Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan. Photo: John Thys/AFP Accountancy giant EY is under investigation in Italy on suspicion of having illegally paid a high-level mole inside the finance ministry to help its tax planning for corporate clien

Giorgio de Chirico in 1970. Photo: Paolo Monti/BEIC. A self-portrait by 20th-century Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico is missing from a museum in the south of France after a thief apparently cut it out of its frame. Investigators suspec

Lawyers for Silvio Berlusconi prepare for the opening hearing at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. Photo: Frederick Florin/AFP The European Court of Human Rights has begun hearing the case against a ban that prevents Italy