Alberto Trentini freed after 423 days in Caracas jail. Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni on Monday announced that Venezuela has released Italian nationals, Alberto Trentini and Mario Burlò, from ...

Reprieve follows months of diplomatic talks and lobbying from Italian pasta makers. The US government on Thursday said that proposed tariffs on Italian pasta would be slashed, in a move welcomed by ...

Jubilee 2025 attracted over 33 million pilgrims. Pope Leo XIV will close the Holy Door at St Peter's on Tuesday at 09.30, formally signifying the end of the Vatican's 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope.

Naples is renowned in Italy for its wild New Year's Eve fireworks, which leads to dozens of injuries every year, however one young man from Rome took the capodanno madness to a whole other level on ...

Orange weather alert sees cancellation of Befana's flight into Piazza Navona. Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri has signed an order banning all recreational and sporting events in public areas on Tuesday 6 ...

Mixed marriages in Italy have increased ten times over in the last 15 years, according to news agency Ansa. Figures from the national statistics agency Istat revealed that there were 600,000 weddings ...

Effective antitrust authorities are crucial to the working of all modern economies. But Italy, where competition is still a dirty word to many, needs them more than most. Italy was a late starter in ...

Marilina Tuccinardi, the person responsible for children in the Rome city council social policies department, is in no doubt: The law is in the interests of the children and must be respected. The law ...

Italy's tourism campaign moves from virtual to real life. Italy's tourism ministry has revamped a contentious marketing campaign which until now has featured Botticelli's Venus as a "virtual ...

With the re-opening of factories and offices after the long summer holidays Italians face the prospect of electricity rationing in September. Italy has been feeling the shortage of electricity since ...

The Olgiata district, situated outside the Gran Raccordo Anulare (Rome's ring road) is inhabitated by the wealthy. Made up of villas with gardens it offers a country style of life with the advantages ...

The spectacle of bagpipe-playing shepherds still exists in Naples and Rome. Dressed in traditional sheepskin and woollen cloaks with peaked hats, the zampognari pipers come into the city from their ...