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Italy is overwhelmed by the sheer number of asylum seekers undertaking the perilous journey across the Mediterranean and Rome is losing its patience with Europe
With Mario Balotelli on the verge of a £16m move to Liverpool, the Italian press have been saying their goodbyes.
For centuries, their works are the truest memorials, whether concertos of Antonio Vivaldi, still regularly performed in the Venice church where he served as violin master, or Michelangelo's masterpieces that pack crowds daily into the Vatican's Sistine Chapel.
When Ivan Marinelli landed at Rome’s Fiumicino airport a few weeks ago, he desperately needed a luggage cart. Saddled with oversized bags from his vacation in Finland, he searched both the international and domestic baggage claim areas, yet couldn’t find a single set of wheels. Racks sat empty as Italy’s high-season tourist lifeblood streamed through the terminal. “Nobody had a cart to transport their things,” Marinelli, 40, recalls. “They just weren’t there.”
Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini is weighing whether to ship the world-renowned Riace Bronzes from their home in Calabria, over 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) north to Milan, the Corriere della Sera reports.
The reason Italians do not pay tax is because they are Catholics. That was the view expressed recently by Rossella Orlandi, new head of Italy’s Agenzia delle Entrate (Inland Revenue) – and it caused a stir.
It is hoping compensating tourists will be the innovate way to salvage the tourism industry this summer
FILM REVIEW - With "The Trip to Italy," we may have the makings of a "Trip" series like the old Hope/Crosby "Road" movies.
Antonio Conte, the former Juventus head coach, has vowed to turn Italy back into one of the top national sides. He succeeds Cesare Prandelli, who resigned immediately after their early elimination from the World Cup in Brazil. Prandelli, who has since joined Galatasaray, gave the new coach his support in a generous message
The murder of a 75-year-old pensioner, gunned down by mistake near Naples on Monday, has sparked an outcry about mob violence in Italy.