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Christmastime Nativity scenes usually feature donkeys, cows and sheep. That could help explain the interest generated when divers mounted a creche in the shark tank of the aquarium in the Italian Adriatic city of Cattolica.
 

Forget Matteo Renzi and Emmanuel Macron, who both became European heads of state in their 40s. The Continent may be on the verge of yet another "youth-quake" moment: a millennial prime minister.

These tiny houses are called M.A.DI homes. They are manufactured in Italy and transported like shipping containers to be quickly assembled in around 6 hours.

As Christmas approaches, law enforcement throughout Europe is increasing security measures. It was this time last year when a terrorist rammed a truck into a pedestrian Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people.  Other major European cities Paris, Brussels, Barcelona, and Nice, have been victimized by terrorism in recent years.  But one country, Italy, has remained remarkably unscathed

ITALY could lose €42billion in European Union funding in the wake of Brexit as the UK is expected to leave a gaping black hole in the bloc’s budget.

A female mobster suspected of being the mastermind behind a reshuffle of the Sicilian mafia after the death of the “boss of bosses” Totò Riina has been arrested, Italian police have said.

The successful collaboration between the Italian luxury brand Bulgari the global travel retailer Dufry and Heathrow Airport has gone one-step further with the recent opening of a new Pop-up store in Heathrow Terminal 5.

Dramatic footage shows a whirling waterspout forming off the Italian coast before making its way inland.The weather phenomenon was captured in the north-western Italian city of Sanremo, on the Mediterranean coast, on 1 December.

Two years ago, many in America would have deemed it unthinkable to read the title “Alt-right founder questions if Jews are people” on national television. Today, there’s that and more: White supremacists march openly with tiki torches; the president of the United States has claimed that there are “very fine people” among neo-Nazis; and in a clumsy attempt to demonstrate the banality of evil, the New York Times has published an article about how Ohio’s “Nazis next door” enjoy the sitcom Seinfeld.

Italian tax police have visited the offices of fashion company Gucci for fiscal checks as part of an investigation by Milan prosecutors into suspected tax evasion, a senior source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Saturday.

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