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Carmaker Fiat estimates its new combined brand could sell 5 million vehicles in 2016, Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said Thursday.

Italy's new prime minister has promised to put an extra €1,000 per year in the pockets of the country's low-paid workers as part of €10bn worth of tax cuts that he hopes will help jolt the eurozone's third-largest economy out of the doldrums.

The center-left Democratic Party (PD) of Premier Matteo Renzi remains Italy's biggest party with 34% of the electorate, despite dropping half a point over the week, a new poll said Tuesday.

Milan Expo 2015 Commissioner Giuseppe Sala on Monday said so far 144 countries have signed on as official participants in the food-themed world's fair next year.

In 1527 his arm was smashed by rioters. In 1991 a man attacked his toe with a hammer. Now, however, Michelangelo's David has suffered arguably his greatest indignity to date.

Italy's industrial production posted its largest monthly increase in more than two years, driven by a 3.9% monthly increase in capital goods production, suggesting that companies at home and abroad are keen to boost their investments.

Sicilian amateur scientists have launched a model cannolo, a cream-stuffed pastry roll symbolic of the Italian island, into the stratosphere, capturing bizarre images of the dessert flying far above the earth.

Italy says it will unblock 2m euros (£1.6m) in emergency funding to save the ancient city of Pompeii, after flooding caused walls to collapse.

Things are a little different in Vico del Gargano.That becomes apparent the moment you’re greeted by one of countless inquisitive stray dogs, or search for a parking space while following a donkey-drawn cart.

Contemporary Italian photography takes center stage at the fourth edition of the Photomed festival, to be held from May 22 to June 15 in the coastal town of Sanary-sur-Mer, the island of Bandol and the city of Toulouse, in the south of France.

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