The last time the Trevi Fountain got a dye job, in 2007. Photo: Christophe Simon/AFP Police have arrested a man for dyeing the Trevi Fountain, the second time in ten years that Rome's iconic water feature has run red. Exactly seven years and

Italian police have identified 15 people they believe stuck anti-Semitic images of Anne Frank in a Roma jersey to the Stadio Olimpico in Rome. Three of those identified in surveillance camera footage are minors, including one 13 year old, A

The Ilva steel plant in Taranto. Photo: Alfonso di Vincenzo/AFP Schools in part of the southe Italian city of Taranto were closed Wednesday on health grounds in an unprecedented step sparked by conce s over wind-bo toxic emissions from the g

Happy World Pasta Day. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP October 25th is officially World Pasta Day. But here in Italy, every day is pasta day. Why do Italians love pasta? There are too many reasons to count.xa0 So instead, we'll share with you a

One of Caligula's ships, recovered from Lake Nemi in 1928. Photo: Museo della scienza e della tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci Neither the fall of a Roman emperor nor World War Two could destroy it. But for the past 70 years, one of Italy’s ancient t

China has reopened its borders to Italian Gorgonzola and other smelly European cheeses after a two-month ban on imports. Chinese customs officials started allowing marbled and soft-rind cheeses back into the country over the weekend for the

Rome's latest tree-related accident. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Rome’s toppling trees are “beyond an emergency”, a conservation group has wa ed after a large pine fell onto a moving taxi on Monday. The tree hit the cab as it drove through Piaz

G7 countries and tech giants including Google, Facebook and Twitter on Friday agreed to work together to block the dissemination of Islamist extremism over the inte et. "These are the first steps towards a great alliance in the name of fre

The Basilica di Santa Croce is off-limits until further notice. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Florence’s famous Basilica di Santa Croce will remain closed indefinitely after loose stonework struck and killed a Spanish tourist. A fragment of mas

In this week's podcast we look at how Austria's gove ment could soon include an ex-Nazi party. How right wing could it get? We also ask Jessica Phelan in Rome whether northe Italy is really following Catalonia's lead towards independence. xa0 And after the Harvey Weinstein sex allegations, The Local...

A supporter of the Northe League. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP Three weeks after Catalonia held its sensational referendum on independence from Spain, two regions in northe Italy will ask their own people how they want to be gove ed. Coi

An NGO rescue boat arrives in Sale o. Photo: Carlo Hermann/AFP. The number of migrants arriving in Italy from the Mediterranean has dropped sharply, according to the European Union’s border agency. In September 2017 some 5,600 people arrive

Silvio Berlusconi speaking to jou alists in Brussels. Photo: John Thys/AFP Silvio Berlusconi says he would have responded differently to the Catalonia crisis than Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy, backing a "legally controlled" referendum to resolve the

An Italian footballer has been banned for five matches for urinating towards rival fans. He will appeal the decision, his club said on Thursday. Giovanni Liberti, a 21-year-old midfielder who plays for Serie D side FC Turris, has denied

Photo: Andrea Giuricin/Facebook. This is why Italians can't have nice things. That’s the verdict of an Italian academic who came across a sorry scene in Milan: a heap of the city’s shiny new shared bikes dumped in a canal. The bicycles ap

Smugglers have been stealing fuel in Libya and selling it on across Europe, according to Italian police. Italian police said on Wednesday that they had broken up a network selling low-quality Libyan diesel fuel worth €30 million euros at se

Eat spaghetti, cheat death: it might sound too good to be true, but Italian researchers say they’ve cracked a recipe that could help reduce deaths from heart attacks. In a newly published study, medical researchers at the Scuola Superiore S

Milan is one of several Italian cities with an air pollution problem. Photos: Marco Bertorello/AFP Dozens of Italian cities are in the air pollution danger zone. That’s according to environmental non-profit Legambiente, which released a spec

Italy got Sweden in the World Cup European play-off draw. Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP The Azzurri will have to beat Sweden for a place in the 2018 World Cup. Four-time winners Italy will play Sweden in a playoff for a place in the 2018 World

More and more young Italians are seeking job opportunities abroad. Photo: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP While the world focuses on incomers, the number of young Italians leaving their homeland rose significantly last year, according to new figures.