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An advertisement in the window of a River North marketplace has garnered some criticism over what some believe is an offensive message about Italians.

Italian news reports say a fiery highway crash in northern Italy has killed six people.

Pecorino di Pienza, from a tiny town in Tuscany, has been produced the same way for thousands of years. But that may not always be the case.

 

One of the world’s best-loved operas has been given a radically different ending in Italy, with the heroine killing her tormentor rather than being killed herself, in a stand against violence to women.

Gianni Versace ruled the fashion world until he was shot dead on the steps of his Miami Beach home on July 15, 1997. He was 50.

A specter is haunting Italy: the specter of once-reviled dictator Benito Mussolini’s face on key chains and T-shirts, billboards and wine bottles.

President Sergio Mattarella on Sunday urged political parties to make realistic proposals to tackle Italy’s problems, especially joblessness, ahead of an election in March.

Their chubby cheeks and whiskery faces lend them an appealing look, but Italy has declared war on its growing population of coypu, beaver-like animals that have thrived since escaping from fur farms decades ago.

Town centre gridlocked for hours and main road blocked by three articulated lorries without snow chains. Traffic at a standstill until evening, both in and around the ski resort in the Dolomites.

Polls point to unclear outcome that could raise political risk in lacklustre economy

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