Spanish Guardia Civil guards drag a man outside a polling station. Photo: Raymond Roig/AFP On Sunday, images of police violence during the Catalan independence referendum were beamed around the world. Here's how Italy's politicians reacted, and the comparisons they made with two upcoming Italian reg...

An Italian woman has died from poisoning believed to have been caused by inhaling fumes from pigeon excrement, according to local media reports. The 62-year-old died on Sunday night after she was hospitalized just over a week ago, along with her sister, 58, who was in a less serious condition. She d...

Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri fears the use of video refereeing is tu ing football into a long-drawn out American sports extravaganza after the Serie A champions drew 2-2 at Atalanta. Sunday's game in Bergamo was dominated by the...

Pope Francis, pictured in Bologna on Sunday, has supported the summit. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP An inte ational summit on how to protect children from po ography threats online is taking place at a Catholic university in Rome this week with Pope Francis's support, organizers said on Monday. The con...

A man lights a candle at a makeshift memorial outside the train station. Photo: Boris Harvat/AFP The man who stabbed two young students to death in the southe French town of Marseille on Sunday had lived in Italy and was married to an Italian woman, according to reports in the French and Italian med...

A Visitor stares at a scene picture of italian actor Marcello Mastroianni playing in Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita". Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Italian films on Italian TV: that's the idea behind a new law approved by Italy's cabinet on Monday, which sets a quota for TV channels and envisages...

Italy's national football team players pictured last year. Photo: AFP The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) on Monday unveiled its new logo with four stars representing the country's World Cup triumphs ahead of the 2018 finals in Russia. The Azzurri won the trophy in 1934, 1938, 1982 and 2006 and a...

Search and rescue teams pictured in the Lampedusa harbour following the 2013 disaster. Photo: Roberto Salomone/AFP October 3rd is a date which to many represents a tu ing point in Europe's migration crisis: four years ago today, a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa killed 368 migrants, an...

A general view taken from the top of the Colosseum. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP Parts of Rome's Colosseum which have never before been open to tourists are now accessible on guided tours, following a major restoration project. In Ancient Rome, the fourth and fifth levels of the amphitheatre provided '...

British model Chloe Ayling. Photo: Facebook. A London judge ruled Friday that a Polish man suspected of playing a role in the alleged kidnap of a British model in Milan could be extradited to Italy. In a case that has drawn worldwide attention, Chloe Ayling, a 20-year-old mother, says she was drugge...

Supporters of Italian football giants Juventus are controlled by mobsters linked to the notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia, justice officials said Friday as the sale of tickets to hardline ultra fans was investigated. "The 'Ndrangheta has imposed itself within the organised groups, exercising a real contro...

The Five Star Movement's candidate for PM, Luigi Di Maio. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP The Five Star Movement has advanced its lead in a poll just a few days after electing 31-year-old Luigi Di Maio as its candidate for prime minister. The party reached 26.8 percent in the latest poll by Index Researc...

Pope Francis is to tackle the rise of fake news in a bid to stop trolls and irresponsible media outlets fomenting hate. "I have chosen this theme for World Communications Day 2018: 'The truth will set you free'. Fake news and jou alism for peace," he said on Twitter on Friday. Francis has repeatedly...

Straight couples who wed in a civil ceremony will also be excluded from the tax cuts. Photo: StockImage/Depositphotos The mayor of a northe Italian town has introduced tax privileges to married couples – but only if they’re straight. Seemingly unperturbed about courting more controversy, the move co...

Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Wednesday called for asylum regulations to be standardized across Europe, saying immigration was one of the biggest challenges facing the continent and a major conce of EU citizens. "We have to work on integration, on voluntary repatriations of people who do...

Italy has risen one place in the World Economic Forum's annual Global Competitiveness Index, published on Tuesday, but continues to be held back by gove ment bureaucracy and cumbersome tax regulations. At 43rd place out of 137 countries, Italy was ranked as one of the least competitive countries in ...

A view of the Supreme Court in Rome. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Italy's highest court has ruled that a man who fatally stabbed his son will not receive a life sentence - because the son was adopted. In 2014, prosecutors called for the 57-year-old, A.T., to be sentenced to life in jail for killing...

A nude drawing that bears a striking resemblance to the Mona Lisa may have been done by Leonardo da Vinci, French media reported on Thursday. Experts at the Louvre in Paris, where his masterpiece is held, have been examining a charcoal drawing known as the "Monna Vanna" which had been attributed to ...

Virginia Raggi speaking during Italy's Five Star Movement (M5S) party congress. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Rome's public prosecutor on Thursday asked for city mayor Virginia Raggi to be put on trial for allegedly making a false statement to an anti-corruption official. The prosecutor dropped more se...

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