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Silvio Berlusconi will start doing community service at a centre for the elderly on Friday May 9, the Sacra Famiglia Catholic Foundation that runs the facility near Milan said Wednesday.

Although Italy's annual rate of inflation remains relatively low, a small but steady increase is taking an average of 201 euros each year from family budgets, consumer group Codacons said Wednesday.

11 months since Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were found guilty of evading around €400 million (£342 million), the design duo have been condemned once again, this time by the court of appeals in Milan.

American beauty Amanda Knox slit her roommate’s throat with a knife in a fit of rage over being accused of stealing money, the Italian court that convicted her explained Tuesday.

 

Cesare Prandelli is looking at alternatives to Mario Balotelli, but there aren't any superior ones.Mario Balotelli is never too far from controversy, and the notorious striker hit headlines again in the aftermath of AC Milan's defeat at the hands of AS Roma on Friday

The small businesses were sprinkled throughout the Italian capital: One restaurant was only a few blocks from the Senate. A cafe was at the edge of the upscale diplomatic district, while a gelato shop was near the Pantheon. There was even a hotel not far from the hilltop statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, the hero of Italy’s unification.

MILAN — What could you make from a single piece of cardboard? During the 1950s, the Italian artist and designer Bruno Munari succeeded in turning one into an inexpensive, yet effective alternative to sunglasses.

Two 20th-century popes who changed the course of the Catholic Church became saints Sunday as Pope Francis honored John XXIII and John Paul II in a delicate balancing act aimed at bringing together the conservative and progressive wings of the church.

New York City, home to a stunning number of Renaissance treasures, has never had a work in a permanent collection by one of the era’s foremost sculptural masters, Donatello, and major pieces by him rarely leave Europe.

Teachers who read teenage students an excerpt from an explicit gay sex novel at one of Rome's most traditional lycèes have been denounced for allegedly corrupting minors after parents took umbrage, authorities said Monday.

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