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Police shoot car's tyres to prevent driver from escaping.
A 34-year-old motorist drove against traffic on the A1 motorway for 40 km, in the direction of Florence, before being brought to a halt by police in Calenzano....
Five women, 600 olive trees, the culmination of care and enterprise: an agricultural and social project financed by European funds.An olive tree about one hundred years old has a chasm burned in the center of the trunk b...
Rome has a handful of bookshops stocking exclusively English language titles in addition to larger Italian stores with small sections dedicated to books in English and other languages. Here is our list of the main booksh...
Florence aims to follow Milan in banning smoking outdoors in certain public places.
Florence is set to ban smoking in parks and at bus stops as part of new measures designed to improve air quality in the Tuscan capital,...
Government may reopen museums in Italy's yellow zones, Italian media reports.
Museums and archaeological sites in Italy's 'yellow zone' regions could reopen from 16 January, under a new emergency decree, according to re...
Italy's education minister says that remote learning "is not working any more."
Students and teachers of Italian high schools are protesting in Rome and elsewhere in Italy on 11 January to demand a safe return to the cl...
Rome unveiled new-look bins at the Pantheon but it seems that smokers are not happy.
When Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi unveiled the city's new-look trash bins last month, many people were impressed and saw the new protot...
Pope urges people to get the covid-19 vaccine.
Pope Francis says he will soon receive a vaccine against covid-19, describing it as an 'ethical duty' for everyone.
The pontiff, speaking in a television interview sched...
Zingaretti postpones reopening of Lazio high schools due to rise in covid-19 infections.
Students in high schools in Rome and across the Lazio region will continue their lessons via distance learning until Monday 18 Jan...
Rioting Feyenoord fans vandalised 17th-century fountain in 2015.
Six fans of the Dutch football team Feyenoord have been convicted of damaging Rome's Barcaccia fountain before a Europa League match against AS Roma on 19...
Massive chasm opened up in Naples hospital car park.
A sinkhole measuring up to 20 metres deep and more than 2,000 square metres has opened up in the car park of a hospital in the outskirts of the southern Italian city...
Alexander the Great mosaic from Pompeii to undergo a seven-month restoration in Naples.
Pompeii's celebrated mosaic of Alexander the Great's victory over King Darius III of Persia is to undergo a major restoration proje...
Vanity Fair gives readers message of 'love and hope' from the pope.
Pope Francis is on the cover of the latest Italian edition of Vanity Fair, the monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs.
Prin...
Italy extends anti-covid measures.
Italy became a 'reinforced' yellow zone on Thursday 7 January after the government extended the anti-covid restrictions in place over the Christmas / New Year period.
The nationwide...
Italy eighth in the world for number of covid-19 vaccinations.Italy is top in the European Union for the number of covid-19 vaccinations administered per capita, and eighth in the world, according to the scientific onlin...
Politicians across Italy's political spectrum condemn Washington violence by rioters supporting Trump.
Italian premier Giuseppe Conte has condemned the violent scenes in Washington, where rioters supporting US president...
Mystery solved: Rome superintendency clarifies reason behind damaged lion in Bernini fountain in Piazza Navona.
The reason behind the mysterious damage to Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona, first re...
Pasta company apologises and pledges to rename its 'Abyssinian rigatoni.'
La Molisana, one of Italy's biggest pasta producers, has found itself trending on Twitter today for appearing to celebrate Italy's colonial past...
Baptisms will take place in babies' home parishes instead of Vatican.
Pope Francis will not carry out the traditional baptism of babies on Sunday 10 January due to concerns over covid-19, the Vatican has announced.
T...
Parco archeologico del Colosseo to carry out restoration work on Roman Forum landmark.
The Arch of Septimius Severus - one of ancient Rome's most recognised monuments - is to undergo a programme of conservation works in...
Italy's decision to delay reopening of high schools until 11 January follows heated debate in government. Kindergartens, elementary and middle schools will reopen as planned on 7 January. New anti-covid measures will be...
For the first time in history, microplastic particles have been found in the placenta of human fetuses.
The study conducted by the Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Rome and the Polytechnic University of Marche - entitled...
Gang of six attack rider and steal his motorcycle in Naples.
A fundraising appeal to help a delivery rider beaten by a gang of six people who stole his motorcycle has been set up in Naples where the violent incident too...
Nobody knows the exact date but it is believed the Baroque monument was damaged during the summer.
Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona has been damaged but nobody appears to know who is responsible or...
Fiorina Fiorelli congratulated by president of Lazio region.
She has lived through the Spanish flu, two world wars and now - aged 107 - the covid-19 pandemic.
Fiorina Fiorelli, born on 13 January 1913, lives in a nur...
Deaths of birds occurred during Rome fireworks for New Year.
Hundreds of dead birds covered a central Rome street in the aftermath of last night's fireworks for New Year.
The birds, believed to be starlings, were fou...
Vatican Secretary of State to celebrate New Year's Day Mass instead of Pope Francis.
Pope Francis will not preside over the Vatican's New Year's Eve and New Year's Day celebrations due to "painful sciatica," the Vatican...
The many positive news stories from Italy in 2020 were too often drowned out by a sea of negative headlines.
By Andy Devane
Few in Italy would deny that 2020 was a terrible year but looking back on this annus horribi...
Rome moves New Year party online this year due to covid-19.
New Year's Eve in Rome, and all over Italy, will be drastically different to previous years, due to the nationwide coronavirus restrictions in place.
Italy...
Rome nurse closes social media accounts following threats and insults after becoming the first in Italy to get covid-19 vaccine.
The nurse who became the first person in Italy to receive the covid-19 vaccine on 27 Decem...
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