ROME -- Italy has a problem digesting its history.

By SOPHIE INGE

By INSIDER REPORTERS

ROME — The Italian Environment Ministry has declared a state of emergency surrounding the wreck of the capsized Costa Concordia, but a Dutch marine salvage firm has said it will take weeks to safel

ROME -- “Liberalisation” is the buzzword today but it is not always clear exactly what it means.

By SOPHIE INGE

ROME -- Those who compose dictionaries tell us that they just reflect the reality of the language and do not impose it – they are descriptive not normative; they argue that they do not tell us how

ROME -- The bodies of three women have been recovered from the sinking Costa Concordia, bringing the death toll to 16.

By INSIDER REPORTERS

By ANGUS CAMPBELL

ROME -- Over the last week there was a crescendo of rumour and counter-rumour on the Constitutional Court’s likely verdict on whether to allow two referendums to

By INSIDER REPORTERS

ROME -- Legendary Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci has inspired a limited edition handbag produced by luxury fashion label Gherardini of Florence.

 By SOPHIE INGE

By INSIDER NEWSDESK

ROME-- The mafia is the biggest money-spinner in Italy, generating 140 billion euros a year, a report by a large employer body revealed on Tuesday.

ROME -- Almost four years ago, the centre-right candidate for mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno played the law and order card and implicitly blamed immigrants for crime in Rome after a Romanian murder

By GEORGIA GREENE

By ALYX BARKER

ROME -- Experienced American TV journalist Wolfgang Achtner is making a bid to be appointed head of Italy’s state-owned Rai‘s TG1 leading news program.

By INSIDER NEWSDESK

ROME -- On the day that the German president, Christian Wulff finds himself under pressure because of an equivocal soft loan of €500,000¹, Italian parliamentarians are moaning that they

When countries join the European Union, they promise to abide by laws passed by the European insititutions.

 ROME -- The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Secretary-General, Angel Gurría, has welcomed the measures adopted by the Italian government led by Italiam Prime Minister

BY INSIDER REPORTERS

ROME – As partyers celebrated the incoming of 2012, more than 500 people in Italy were injured, and two killed.

 ROME After more than a century of quarantining pets, you may now take your cat or dog into Britain by just showing a vaccination certificate <

By Alyx Barker

 ROME -- Monika Bulaj is a Polish immigrant to Italy (i.e.