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Budding flowers in the three national colours of Italy comprise the logo for the host country's pavilion during Milan Expo 2015, unveiled by organizers of the world's fair on Wednesday.
Arnoldo Foa died on Saturday. He was born in Ferrara into a family of Jewish origin. He attended the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in Rome but was forced to leave when the Fascist regime passed racist legislation.
The mayor of the quake-ravaged Italian city of L'Aquila resigned Saturday amid fallout from an investigation into bribes allegedly paid to civil servants for contracts to rebuild the city center.
The creator of the Pompidou and the Shard is used to being 'attacked by builders'. But will he be able to hold his own in the bearpit of Italian politics? Lizzy Davies meets senatore Renzo Piano.
Rome is aiming to create a 'city of science' with a major urban redevelopment project including a museum, social housing, and shops in a former barracks, Mayor Ignazio Marino said Friday.
An operation to remove the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship from the coast of north-west Italy will begin in June, officials say. The stricken liner will then be taken away to be scrapped. Ports in Italy, Britain, France, Turkey and China are bidding for the lucrative contract to dismantle the ship, Italian officials said.
The governor of the Italian region of Sardinia warned Prime Minister Enrico Letta on Friday that he would fight against allowing the transfer of Syria's chemical weapons arsenal on the island, a statement said.
Italy's Integration Minister Cecile Kyenge is one of the 100 most influential thinkers of 2013, the American magazine Foreign Policy said Tuesday.
Italian Premier Enrico Letta praised a European Court of Human Rights ruling Monday that two Italian parents should be allowed to give their daughter her mother's surname.
Decades after Oscar winner Robert De Niro and Hollywood favourite Sylvester Stallone played boxers in hit movies, the pair have teamed up for a fight film that hits movie screens on Thursday. Naturally, aging was a hot topic for the pair during a news conference on Tuesday to promote the European premiere of their film 'Grudge Match'.