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Economist cover features Liz Truss with pizza and spaghetti.
The Welcome to Britaly cover of this week's edition of The Economist faced widespread criticism in Italy where the publication was accused of playing on outda...
Ireland remembers Violet Gibson with plaque outside her childhood home in Dublin.
A plaque dedicated to Violet Gibson, the Irishwoman who tried to assassinate Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini almost a century ago...
Hundreds of Italy flights risk cancellation or delays on Friday.
Passengers face travel disruption and flight cancellations in Italy on Friday 21 October due to a nationwide 24-strike by staff working in air traffic con...
President Mattarella to hold talks on formation of new government.
The right-wing coalition preparing to form Italy's next government faced a fresh crisis on Wednesday over secretly recorded comments about Ukraine by fo...
Rome to host final stage of Giro d'Italia for first time since 2018 event was cut short due to poor state of city's roads.
The final stage of the 106th edition of the Giro d'Italia, the cycling world's second-biggest an...
Friday strike action involves Roma TPL and Cotral but not ATAC.
Bus lines operated by Roma TPL in the suburbs of Rome are at risk on the morning of Friday 21 October due to a four-hour strike called by the USB trade uni...
No students or staff found under the rubble.
The Aula Magna lecture hall at the University of Cagliari, on the Italian island of Sardinia, collapsed on Tuesday night, a couple of hours after students attended lectures t...
Mussolini photo displayed for anniversary of ministry building.
A photograph of Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was removed from Italy's ministry of economic development (MISE) on Tuesday after being displayed alongsi...
Ryanair to operate 70 routes to and from Rome over winter.
The low-cost Irish airline Ryanair is to launch 18 new routes out of Rome airports Fiumicino and Ciampino this winter, the company's chief executive Michael O'L...
Rome artists participate in 2022 edition of Rome Art Week.
The seventh edition of Rome Art Week (RAW), the contemporary art festival of free cultural events in Roman galleries and studios, takes place across the capital...
Second collapse at Poggioreale cemetery this year.
Naples authorities have sealed off the Poggioreale cemetery after the collapse of a four-storey wall in the graveyard left at least a dozen coffins hanging precariously...
Casino dell'Aurora goes under the hammer again after failing to sell at auction three times.
An historic Rome villa with the world's only known ceiling painting by Caravaggio is up for auction, on 18 October, for the fo...
Italian premier Draghi offers Egonu his full support.
Political leaders in Italy, including outgoing premier Mario Draghi, expressed solidarity with Paola Egonu on Sunday after the Italian volleyball star threatened to ...
Rome commemorates deportation of Jews in 1943.
Rome's Jewish community commemorates today the 79th anniversary of the deportation of more than 1,000 of the city’s Jews to the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz.
The...
Fontana's election comes day after La Russa elected senate speaker.
Lorenzo Fontana, a prominent member of Matteo Salvini's right-wing Lega party, was elected speaker of Italy's chamber of deputies on Friday.
Fontana...
FAI opens historic sites across Italy on 15-16 October.
More than 700 noted Italian buildings and historic sites open their doors to the public for free on the weekend of 15-16 October as part of the Giornate FAI d'Autu...
Innovative procedure took place at Paideia International Hospital in Rome.
Doctors at a private clinic in Rome have carried out brain surgery on a patient as he played his saxophone, in a complex operation that lasted n...
La Russa made news in Italy this week over video showing his collection of fascist memorabilia.
Ignazio La Russa, a founding member of the far-right Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), was elected the new speaker of the Italian se...
Incident occurred in Ostiense area of Rome.
Rome firefighters raced to a street in the Ostiense neighbourhood on Thursday morning after a city rubbish truck burst into flames.
The incident took place on Via Pellegrin...
Antonio Canova died in Venice on this day in 1822.
Italy is marking the bicentenary of the death of Antonio Canova with a series of events in honour of the celebrated neoclassical sculptor who died in Venice on 13 Octob...
Catanzaro mayor closes schools as precaution.
A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Catanzaro in Italy's southern Calabria region in the early hours on Thursday 13 October.
The earthquake occurred at 00....
Gladiator star to receive award at city hall on Friday.
Russell Crowe is to be honoured as 'Rome's ambassador in the world' in recognition of the special bond that ties the Gladiator star to the Eternal City.
Rome ma...
Bus driver to receive award for her actions.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri has praised the actions of a Roman bus driver who rescued a teenage boy being bullied by giving him refuge in her driver's cabin.
The incident...
Ancient Roman road is central to Italy's slow tourism plans.
Italy is moving forward with the candidacy process to have the Via Appia Antica inserted in the UNESCO World Heritage List, in what is the first such bid prom...
Florence museum takes legal action against French fashion house.
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence announced on Monday that it is suing luxury fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier for the "unauthorised use" of The Birth of Ven...
Piazza di Siena defaced with messages written in English.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri has condemned as "unacceptable" the graffiti that appeared over the weekend in Piazza di Siena, the green area used for prestigious...
The two Belgian women were in Italy on holiday.
Two Belgian tourists were killed in a hit-and-run incident on a link road to the A24 motorway near Tor Cervara, an eastern suburb of Rome, on Saturday night.
The two wo...
No reports of casualties or damage from eruption.
Italian civil protection authorities have issued a level orange warning after the volcano on the island of Stromboli erupted on Sunday, sending lava cascading into the s...
Two-year-old boy was killed in 1982 terror attack.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella is to attend a ceremony at the Great Synagogue in Rome on Sunday to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1982 attack in which a two-year...
Catacomb visits are free but must be booked in advance.
Rome's catacombs, including those normally difficult to visit, will open for free guided tours on Saturday 15 October as part of the 2022 edition of Day of the Cat...
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