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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles' sales jumped by 8% in January, while competitors blamed blustery winter storms for driving down their figures which were released on Monday. Sales of large vehicles produced by the Jeep and Dodge brands of Fiat Chrysler helped to boost its figures.
Venice Mayor Giorgio Orsoni wants to put his city on the map as a site of internationally weighty institutions, and a possible Islamic Museum plus study center is one of them.
On Monday, the mayor thanked Premier Enrico Letta for considering such a museum for the iconic city's Grand Canal, which in Orsoni's view would dovetail nicely with an existing Museum of Oriental Arts, a Council of Europe office in St.
Amanda Knox vowed Friday to fight her conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher "until the very end" and said she "will never go willingly" back to Italy.
Speaking on ABC's "Good Morning America," Knox said news of the guilty verdict Thursday "really has hit me like a train."
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Friday said he was "worried" about the turmoil in parliament, where tension is high after a series of scuffles this week and the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) presented an impeachment petition against the head of State.
A 30-meter portion of medieval wall surrounding the town of Volterra, in the province of Pisa, collapsed Friday as a result of the unabated torrential rain and storms that have engulfed Italy.
Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend were convicted on Thursday for a second time in the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, who shared an apartment with Ms. Knox in the university town of Perugia, where both women were exchange students. The presiding judge in the Florence court sentenced Ms. Knox to 28½ years in prison and the boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, to 25 years.
Italy's main political parties agreed adjustments to center-left leader Matteo Renzi's electoral reform proposals that should clear the way for the closely watched package to come before parliament on Thursday.
An MP with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) on Tuesday doubled down on his colleague's insult, one of the worst in the Italian language, against President Giorgio Napolitano.
Milan's La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra on Monday night performed to an empty theatre, instead broadcasting to thousands standing silently outside, as a tribute to conductor Claudio Abbado who died last week.
On the same day that Rolling Stone magazine made Pope Francis its latest front-page hipster, a mural artist in Rome depicted the pontiff as Superman on a wall near Vatican City.