Punta del Este, the Uruguayan resort where Morabito had spent 11 years. Photo: xura/DepositphotosAn Italian wanted for more than 20 years for drug trafficking and mafia activities has been arrested at a hotel in Montevideo, the Uruguayan Interior Ministry announced. Rocco Morabito, who was described...

Party Secretary Matteo Renzi. Photo: AFPThe Italian political system is complicated, to say the least. In a series of articles examining each of the country's main parties, The Local Italy aims to introduce you to the key players and parties as they retu from summer recess. To start with, here's an ...

Valentino Rossi vowed to get back on his bike as quickly as possible as he was discharged from hospital on Saturday following surgery on a broken leg. The nine-time world champion in all categories was operated on in Ancona, easte Italy,xa0on Fridayxa0after breaking his right leg in a training crash...

Spain forward Alvaro Morata (C) vies with Italy defenders Leonardo Bonucci (L) and Andrea Barzagli during the World Cup 2018 qualifier on Saturday. Photo: AFPItaly were outclassed by Spain in a demoralising 3-0 World Cup qualifying defeat in Madrid which leaves the four-time champions facing a preca...

Lewis Hamilton will aim to establish a new outright record for career pole positions and leapfrog Sebastian Vettel to take the lead in this year's world championship at the Italian Grand Prix. As four-time champion Vettel goes in search of his first win on Ferrari'sxa0home track inxa0Sunday'sxa0clas...

Silvio Berlusconi (right) with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Villa Certosa in April 2008. Photo: Press Office/AFPAuthorities in Olbia have granted planning permission for extensions at former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's residence in Sardinia. Berlusconi has added two villas adja...

It's not always easy being bilingual. Photo: Caio Jhonny/FlickrMultilingualism might come with plenty of benefits, but it also causes its fair share of confusion - especially when you realize your native language no longer comes as naturally to you as it used to. More and more of us are lea ing Ital...

Police surprised a group of partygoers relieving themselves in the sea at night at a northe Italian beach. The 20-year-old man and his friend, aged 23, were retu ing by boat from a party in Monterosso, a coastal town in the northe Cinque Terre region in the Italian Riviera.xa0 The men had apparently...

Ai Weiwei, pictured here in 2016. Photo: Patrick Kovarik/AFPAn impatient toddler chides his mother for not being quick enough in getting him into his pair of newly-acquired boots. Finally they're on and he wriggles free to put the new footwear to good use: kicking his siblings and friends on the shi...

Rossi pictured celebrating after a 2016 win. Photo: AFPItalian motorcycling legend Valentino Rossi broke his leg in a crash in training on Thursday to dash his hopes of a tenth world title this season. The 38-year-old will undergo surgery "as soon as possible", his Yamaha team announced in a stateme...

The number of Italians in work rose to pre-recession levels in July, according to figures from national number-crunching agency Istat. For the first time since before the start of the country's long recession, the number of people in work has topped 23 million. In total, 23.06 million people were re...

Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of Benito. Photo: AFPA forest in Italy where the trees spelled out 'DVX', Benito Mussolini's Latin title, has been severely damaged by wildfires. The pine forest on Monte Giano, close to Rieti, spelled out 'DVX', the Latin for 'leader' or Italian 'Duce', as the Fa...

Photo: Team DREAM, Alta Scuola Politecnica (ASP) dei Politecnici di Milano e Torino.A joint project by the Polytechnic Universities of Milan and Turin to monitor the sustainability of hydro resources in the Alps has retu ed worrying results. Students from both universities have been using drones to ...

Amatrice in August 2017, a year after an earthquake killed nearly 300 people. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPEuropean MEPs on Wednesday approved aid worth €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) to help repair damage caused by a series of deadly earthquakes in Italy this year and last. The Budget Committee of the...

The Ministry of Health has made ten vaccines against common diseases compulsory for all children aged under 16 resident in Italy. The so-called Lorenzin decree, which became law in July 2017, makesxa0ten vaccinations compulsoryxa0andxa0free of chargexa0for allxa0children aged 0-16. The law makes the...

Rome's public transport authority ATAC has confirmed that a bus driver who swapped the destination on the front of his bus for his own protest message against vaccinations has been suspended. The driver of one of Rome's metropolitan buses had replaced the destination on the digital display at the fr...

Czech Republic's midfielder Patrik Schick (left) vies for the ball during the UEFA U-21 European Championship Group C football match Czech Republic in 2017. Photo: Piotr Nowak/AFPRoma have signed highly-rated Czech forward Patrik Schick, 21, from Serie A rivals Sampdoria, the Italian outfit announce...

The South Tyrolean Freedom Party, who go by the German name Süd-Tiroler Freiheit, have issued a provocative publication for school children in what they proclaim as Tyrol, an area both sides of the Austrian-Italian border. At least 2,000 copies of the 140 page magazine will be distributed by the par...

Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP.A miniaturized Matt Damon and Javier Bardem as Pablo Escobar. The ten-day festival, Italy's most important annual cinema gala, has started. The 74th Venice film festival kicked off on Wednesdayxa0with "Downsizing", a sci-fi drama starring a miniaturized Mattxa0Damon, opening ...

St Mark's Square, Venice. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFPHollywood royalty, in the shape of George Clooney, Robert Redford and Jane Fonda, will share the limelight with a 19th-century British monarch at this year's Venice film festival, which kicks off Wednesday. The world premiere of "Victoria & Abdul", S...