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They came from up and down Italy, setting up their protest headquarters just a few dozen cobblestone steps from the Italian parliament in Rome.
An Italian artist has used his tractor to transform a field near the Italian city of Verona into a giant portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of this week’s Group of 20 summit.
The festival, which will take place in Boston’s City Hall Plaza on Saturday and Sunday, has partnered with the foremost pizza-accrediting organization in the world to spotlight two dozen of the strongest local examples of the food — one of which will be voted the event’s best by taste-testing attendees and expert judges — and share information on the history and production of pizza through a series of live chef demonstrations.
It has been 40 years since the Ferrante family’s pizza has been sold to the public. So pizza master and patriarch Benedetto Ferrante, now 89, sat his daughter Maggie Ferrante Barrella down this spring to give her some sage advice: “I want to tell you just one thing. Don’t let the dough control you, you make it do what you want it to do.”
Pop icon and Twitter mom/poet Cher’s Oscar-winning performance in “Moonstruck” as a very, very Italian-American widow from a very, very Italian-American family is as big and memorable as, well, her hair.
Italy's interior minister on Sunday called on European countries to open their ports to migrant rescue ships as he met for crisis talks with his French and German counterparts.
Italy’s iconic Cinecittà Studios, where “Ben-Hur” and other classics were filmed, is returning to state ownership after nearly a decade in private hands, with a planned revamp involving the construction of two new soundstages on the studios’ backlot.
Italy’s centre-right parties trounced their centre-left rivals in mayoral elections, official results have showed – putting pressure on the ruling Democratic party (PD) ahead of a national vote due in less than a year.
Italy began winding up two failed regional banks on Sunday in a deal that could cost the state up to 17 billion euros ($19 billion) and will leave the lenders' good assets in the hands of the nation's biggest retail bank, Intesa Sanpaolo.
A Nigerian human trafficker known as "Rambo" has been arrested in Italy on charges of torturing and killing migrants held captive in Libya, Italian police said Tuesday.