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After years of arduous, badly paid work in the fields of southern Italy, Singh reported his employer to the police. But in a country where justice moves at a glacial pace, abused migrant workers have scant incentive to come forward

The mayor of Como, a city in the northern Italian province of Lombardy, has passed a controversial law banning begging and camping in the city centre. 

Elena Galeotto, a longtime employee of Melegatti, Italy’s original producer of traditional pandoro Christmas cakes, scooped this season’s final mound of dough from the conveyor belt, rounded it and dropped it into a deep, star-shaped cast.

The man is alleged to have injected air into the veins of at least three terminally ill patients as they were transported back to their homes.

If you spend your holidays in New Jersey — or if you grew up in an Italian-American household just about anywhere — you already know the next line, for better or worse: “it’s Dominick The Donkey,” of course!

On a frosty autumn night, young women stand on street corners in a run-down industrial estate in Turin, Italy.

Workers at Amazon's main logistics hub in Italy vowed on Thursday to continue with their work to rule in a dispute over pay and shift patterns, refusing to work overtime during the current peak season for making deliveries.

None of the 64 World Cup soccer matches from next year’s tournament in Russia will be shown on state-run television in Italy for the first time.

 Don Emilio is the parish priest at the cathedral of my hometown, Crema, 30 miles from Milan. He just hates Father Christmas (Babbo Natale if you’re Italian). The priest doesn’t simply ignore Father Christmas or disapprove of him: He hates him with a vengeance. A while ago he came over and rang my doorbell, and he was not a happy trouper: He’d noticed a brightly lit Santa Claus clinging to my balcony, clambering toward the window of the floor above.

The former chief of Unicredit said on Wednesday that a close ally of former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had asked him in 2014 about the possibility of his bank buying a troubled smaller lender where her father worked.

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