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Innovative procedure took place at Paideia International Hospital in Rome.
Doctors at a private clinic in Rome have carried out brain surgery on a patient as he played his saxophone, in a complex operation that lasted n...
La Russa made news in Italy this week over video showing his collection of fascist memorabilia.
Ignazio La Russa, a founding member of the far-right Fratelli d'Italia (FdI), was elected the new speaker of the Italian se...
Incident occurred in Ostiense area of Rome.
Rome firefighters raced to a street in the Ostiense neighbourhood on Thursday morning after a city rubbish truck burst into flames.
The incident took place on Via Pellegrin...
Antonio Canova died in Venice on this day in 1822.
Italy is marking the bicentenary of the death of Antonio Canova with a series of events in honour of the celebrated neoclassical sculptor who died in Venice on 13 Octob...
Catanzaro mayor closes schools as precaution.
A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Catanzaro in Italy's southern Calabria region in the early hours on Thursday 13 October.
The earthquake occurred at 00....
Gladiator star to receive award at city hall on Friday.
Russell Crowe is to be honoured as 'Rome's ambassador in the world' in recognition of the special bond that ties the Gladiator star to the Eternal City.
Rome ma...
Bus driver to receive award for her actions.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri has praised the actions of a Roman bus driver who rescued a teenage boy being bullied by giving him refuge in her driver's cabin.
The incident...
Florence museum takes legal action against French fashion house.
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence announced on Monday that it is suing luxury fashion house Jean Paul Gaultier for the "unauthorised use" of The Birth of Ven...
Piazza di Siena defaced with messages written in English.
Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri has condemned as "unacceptable" the graffiti that appeared over the weekend in Piazza di Siena, the green area used for prestigious...
The two Belgian women were in Italy on holiday.
Two Belgian tourists were killed in a hit-and-run incident on a link road to the A24 motorway near Tor Cervara, an eastern suburb of Rome, on Saturday night.
The two wo...
No reports of casualties or damage from eruption.
Italian civil protection authorities have issued a level orange warning after the volcano on the island of Stromboli erupted on Sunday, sending lava cascading into the s...
Two-year-old boy was killed in 1982 terror attack.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella attended a ceremony at the city's Great Synagogue on Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1982 attack in which a two-year-old...
Revamped cinema to honour Carlo Verdone.
Rome's Cinema Barberini in the central piazza of the same name is scheduled to reopen to the public on 20 October after being closed for more than two years.
The historic cine...
Return of tourism in Italy coincides with bad news stories.
The tourism industry in Italy boomed over the summer season, after two difficult years due to covid, as tourist numbers edged up on pre-pandemic levels.
How...
Test flight of air taxi held in Rome airport on Thursday.
Rome's Fiumicino airport unveiled plans to make flying taxis a reality in 2024 with the city's first test flight of the rotor-bladed Volocity aircraft on Thursda...
Incident occurred in the Chiaramonti sculpture museum.
A visitor the Vatican Museums was detained on Wednesday after throwing two Roman busts to the ground, according to Italian news agency Dire.
The incident took pl...
Days after chicken frankfurters were taken off the market, Italy recalls salmon sandwiches.
Italy's health ministry has recalled salmon and mayonnaise sandwiches due to Listeria concerns, days after frankfurter sausages...
Electricity bills in Italy set to rise by 59 per cent.
Italians set fire to gas and electricity bills in protest against soaring energy costs during demonstrations in cities across Italy on Monday.
The nationwide pro...
Our guide to vintage clothing shops in Rome.
Rome has plenty of vintage clothing stores, if you know where to look, with many vintage boutiques tucked away on side streets in the Monti district and near Piazza Navona. T...
All you need to know about tattoo artists in Rome. In a city famous for its role as a centre for art, it is no surprise that this trickles down into a diverse and talented community of tattoo artists in Rome.
While t...
Video display at St Peter's every night until 16 October.
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli inaugurated a two-week light show on the façade of St Peter's Basilica, telling the story of the first pope, at the Vatican on Sunda...
Art museums in Rome and Milan show support with peaceful protests.
Two of Italy's leading contemporary art institutions have launched a peaceful, symbolic protest against the violent response by Iran's security forces t...
Air travel disruption expected in Italy on 1 October.
Cabin crew and pilots from several low-cost airlines are to go on strike in Italy on Saturday 1 October, Italian trade unions Filt Cgil and Uiltrasporti have announc...
All you need to know about the word eat in Italian.
Italo- Americans have great memories of their grandfathers yelling at dinner time the simple phrase: “A mangiá, tutti a mangiá!" Which in southern Italian dialect mea...
Italy's general election provided ample material for a popular new Twitter account. We spoke to its founder.
As Italians headed to the polls on the last Sunday in September, the leader of the far-right Fratelli d'Italia...
Masks still required in hospitals and care homes until 31 October.Italy will no longer require commuters to wear masks on public transport, with effect from Saturday 1 October, the health ministry confirmed last night....
Rallies in Italy coincided with World Day for Safe Abortions.
Thousands of women joined marches across Italy on Wednesday to protect access to abortion amid concerns of a threat to abortion rights following the far-righ...
Rome's state and city-run museums free on first Sunday of the month.
State museums and archaeological sites in Rome and across Italy will be open for free on Sunday 2 October as part of the Domenica al Museo initiative....
AstroSam to become fifth European commander of ISS.
Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is to become the first European woman to command the International Space Station (ISS), the European Space Agency (ESA) announ...
An exhibition in Rome attempts to re-dimension the life and death of Domitian, last of the Flavian emperors (81-96 AD).
"Woe is me, I think I am becoming a god," complained the famously down-to-earth Vespasian on his de...
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