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Costa Cruises, the company whose Concordia cruise liner capsized in January last year with the loss of 32 lives, has made a deal with an Italian court that will limit its criminal liability for a fine of just €1 million.
Visitors to Italy's prestigious wine trade show Vinitaly were up 10% for 2013, organizers said at its close on Wednesday
Nothing is where it should be. At Palazzo Chigi, the prime minister’s office in Rome, there’s no government resulting from the recent elections. Instead a group of ‘technicians’ – called in during an ‘emergency’ a year and a half ago – that, under the banner of Mario Monti, accounted in the February election for just 11% of the votes.
The north-eastern Italian village of Asolo is known as the "town of a hundred horizons" and its beauty has bewitched for centuries.Illustrious past residents include the explorer Freya Stark and the actor Eleonora Duse. Robert Browning loved it so much that he named his last volume of poetry – Asolando – after it.
Just when Italians thought their politics could not get any stranger, on Tuesday they did. That was when members of the Five Star Movement of Beppe Grillo decided to “occupy” Parliament, a step that would seem unnecessary since voters had already sent them there to occupy 163 of its 945 seats.
Declining competitiveness in France and Italy due to high debt and labor costs is threatening to cause grave economic problems for the rest of the euro area, the European Commission warned on Wednesday.
A bishop from the earthquake-stricken province of Modena in central Italy said Tuesday he was surprised to find himself having an informal chat at breakfast recently with Pope Francis.
Many of the woes that have marred Italian soccer in recent years, including violence, racism and ill-tempered rows about refereeing, were on display in the last round of Serie A fixtures.
Evidence was seized from a school on Tuesday for probes into the alleged severe mistreatment of a 14-year-old autistic boy by two teachers caught on hidden surveillance cameras in the northern city of Vicenza.
Senators belonging to the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) started a sit-in inside the Senate Tuesday to protest against the failure to launch the Italian parliament's commissions after February's inconclusive general election.