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Cecile Kyenge, a doctor who was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has become Italy's first black minister after being named in Premier Enrico Letta's new cabinet on Saturday.
Police said on Monday that they are searching for a 31-year-old man suspected of being hired to throw acid in the face of a woman in her home near Pesaro, off the central Adriatic coast on April 16.
In her steamy new memoir, Amanda Knox details her sex life and drug use while living in Italy.She writes she was “proud” of her first one-night stand and that smoking pot was “as common as pasta” in the bungalow she shared with British student Meredith Kercher, whose half-naked body was found in 2007. Her throat had been cut.
When Mario Draghi left the Italian central bank to go to the European Central Bank (ECB) in 2011, he backed his number two to replace him - only for then prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to oppose the move. Now that Fabrizio Saccomanni has "made it" to head the economy ministry, markets may expect him to be the ECB's new man in Rome.
Two military police officers and a passer-by were shot and wounded on Sunday in a crowded square outside the office of Prime Minister Enrico Letta and near the presidential palace, where his new government was being sworn in.
Italy's new Prime Minister Enrico Letta promised to press for a change to the European Union's focus on austerity and pursue economic growth and jobs as his government sought backing from parliament on Monday, ending months of political gridlock.
Enrico Letta’s government may be installed as soon as today, wrapping up two months of political turmoil in Italy that coincided with the shooting of a pair of policemen in a Rome square near the prime minister’s office.
AP. An unemployed bricklayer shot two Italian policemen in a crowded square outside the premier's office Sunday just as Italy's new government was being sworn in, investigators said.
What appear to be the first depicted images of Native Americans have been found in a painting by Italian artist Pinturicchio at the Borgia apartments in the Vatican after a recent renovation, Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano has reported.
IT IS the most famous quote in modern Italian literature, because it captures so well the cynicism and conservatism of modern Italian politics. “If we want everything to remain as it is,” says Tancredi in Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s “The Leopard”, “everything needs to change.”