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Kenyan cattle herders have fired shots at an Italian-born author and conservationist and her daughter after burning down her lodge.
Italian novelist Elena Ferrante's best-selling novel "My Brilliant Friend" is headed to television as an eight-part series, U.S. cable channel HBO and Italy's RAI television said on Thursday.
Nearly 200 years after their original commission and creation, Bertel Thorvaldsen’s statues of Christus and the ancient 12 apostles are enjoying a homecoming of sorts.
The Italian Highway Patrol has a new weapon in its arsenal: a specially modified Lamborghini Huracán designed to chase down speeding drivers and deliver life-saving organs and blood to hospitals.
An opening reception for a European-inspired exhibit by photographer Susan Raines will take place at 5 p.m. April 1 at the Middle Street Gallery in Sperryville featuring her classically composed images from Rome and Florence.
The body of auto-racing legend Enzo Ferrari was at the center of an Italian gang's bizarre plot to raise some cash. Police on the Italian island of Sardinia said they had foiled a plot by a criminal gang to steal Ferrari's body and hold it for ransom, Agence France-Presse reports.
The sun-dappled olive groves of Italy’s deep south have become a battleground as riot police and protesters clash over the building of an ambitious gas pipeline.
Paolo Virzi’s “Like Crazy,” a road movie about two women who escape from a mental institution in Tuscany, took top honors Monday night at Italy’s 61st David di Donatello Awards, the country’s equivalent of the Oscars. The film took home five statuettes, including prizes in the key categories of best picture, best director, and best actress, which went to Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
Italy is proposing a hill town in Umbria and a religious festival in the mountain city of L’Aquila for World Heritage status. Both attractions are located in the mountainous centre of the country, which has been hit hard by earthquakes.
A young Irish boy who flew to Italy for life-saving treatment has received a special blessing from Pope Francis.