The dog, after being rescued by volunteers. Photo: OIPAA farmer in the earthquake-hit town of Amatrice has been charged with animal abuse after deliberately running over his dog "because it wouldn't listen". The man tied the pet to his car using a rope before driving over the animal, the Italian bra...

Ignazio Marino at a news conference where he withdrew his resignation on October 30, 2015. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPAn Italian judge on Friday acquitted former Rome mayor Ignazio Marino in a tax fraud case which could have seen him handed a three-year jail term. Marino risked jail on charges of fals...

Railway station cuisine normally conjures up images of unappetizing fast food and overpriced but underwhelming sandwiches. But a new food market in Rome's central Termini station hopes to challenge the stereotype by providing a wide range of high quality, local food. The 15 artisan food stalls in Ro...

The British gove ment said on Friday it will scrap the 15-year rule that had barred many British voters living abroad from casting a ballot in general elections back home. The UK gove ment said on Friday that the rule that has barred British nationals from voting if they have lived abroad for over 1...

Pickpocketing, along with overall crime levels, has seen a decline in Italy, Interior Ministry figures show - news which is sure to provoke a sigh of relief from wary tourists. The new statistics come from Il Sole 24 Ore's annual crime report, based on figures provided to the financial daily by the ...

The remains were found in a cave south of Palermo. Photo: Wind&Wuthering/FlickrSkulls and other apparently human bones have been found in a cave in Palermo, Sicily, according to local media reports on Wednesday. The remains could belong to up to six different people, and clothes and women's shoes we...

Antonio Pelle, known as 'mamma', talks to police after his bunker is discovered. Photo: Polizia di StatoItalian police have arrested a mafia boss known as 'la mamma' (the mummy) who was hiding in a concealed room in the house he had lived in his whole life. Antonio Pelle had been on the run for five...

The wreckage of the plane. Photo: Vigili di FuocoA light aircraft crashed and caught fire in northe Italy on Wednesday, killing the one person on board. The pilot, 70-year-old Renato Pasotti, from Brescia, was flying towards Lombardy when the plane fell to the ground in a hilly area of xa0Castelgobe...

Migrants await rescue off the Libyan coast on Tuesday. Photo: Aris MessinisAFPAt least 22 Europe-bound migrants were found dead Tuesday in an overloaded wooden boat off Libya, an AFP photographer witnessed, on a day of frantic rescues in the Mediterranean. Photographer Aris Messinis, who was able to...

A Twitter account claiming to belong to Anita Raja on Tuesday night "confirmed" media reports that the translator was behind the successful Elena Ferrante novels, sending Italian media into a frenzy. But by Wednesday mo ing, it seemed that the account was a fake. The account, was created on Tuesday ...

Italian workers cost less than their European neighbours. But is it something to be proud of?A campaign sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and aiming to encourage foreign businesses to invest in the country has been criticized for boasting of the low wages paid to educated wor...

The citron is "God's fruit" in Judaism, but it's also part of daily Calabrian life. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPThere's less than a month to go until the Jewish festival of Sukkot, and New Yorker Hershel Mann is feeling the heat under the broiling sun of southe Italy. Beads of sweat trickle down cheek...

Amatrice's collapsed school; on Monday, Pope Francis visited the town's makeshift replacement school. Photo: AFPPope Francis on Tuesday made a surprise visit to Amatrice, the small Italian mountain town that bore the brunt of the August 24th earthquake that killed nearly 300 people. The Argentinian ...

A black flag reading 'Vergogna' (Shame) in Lampedusa's port a day after the tragedy. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPOctober 3rd 2016 marks three years since a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa killed 368 migrants, a tragedy seen by many as a key moment in Europe's migrant crisis. It is also t...

Migrants aboard rubber dinghies during a previous rescue operation. File photo: AFPUPDATED: 6,055 people were rescued off Libya on Monday, three years to the day after 366 people died in the sinking that first alerted the world to the Mediterranean migrant crisis. In a poignant reminder of the ongoi...

Ferrante gained fame for writing about the working class districts of Naples. Photo: Carlo Raso/FlickrOne of literature's unresolved mysteries appears to have been cracked with the unmasking of the true identity of Italian publishing sensation Elena Ferrante. In its wake, a literary row erupted on M...

The accused in the trial due to open December 15 include Giuseppe Mussari, former chairman of the BMPS Foundation, his former chief executive Antonio Vigni, six former employees of Germany's Deutsche Bank and two of Japan's Nomura bank. The alleged crimes, committed between 2008 and 2012 and key to ...

Both schools were located in Milan. File photo: eugene_o/FlickrTwo boys were injured in Milan on Friday mo ing when part of the roof of their school caved in - the second collapsed school roof in the region this week. The ceiling caved in on a classroom of five children, all aged 13, and their teach...

'Made in Italy' olive oil is often anything but - despite laws aimed at protecting the quality of the product, wa s a report from Italian farmers' organization Coldiretti. The study was presented in Florence on Thursday, Italy's National Day of Italian Extra-virgin Olive Oil, which also saw 10,000 f...

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