PERUGIA—The credibility of the Italian judicial system was thrown into question following the release of Amanda Knox in a case plagued with media speculation and dubious evidence.

PERUGIA – An Italian appeal court today cleared American student Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 and ordered the immed

ROME—With Italian newspapers awash with stories about the unorthodox heterosexual activities of Silvio Berlusconi, a group of gay activists caused outrage last week by publishing a list of leading

ROME -– The scientific world has experienced controversy over the past few days since a laboratory in Gran Sasso, near Rome reported results last Friday that neutrinos travel faster than light, acc

ROME-- In line with the curatorial philosophy of its President, Professor Emmanuele F. M.

 ROME More than 2,400 years ago, Plato observed that every nation needs a foundation myth and described how it might be done, and a lot more recently Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger  in The Invent

  ROME —Britain is accused of interfering in Italy’s internal affairs for more than half a century in support of its strategic interests in the Mediterranean, according to a new book presented yest

 ROME -- Silvio Berlusconi faced fresh humiliation over the weekend as newspapers published a tsunami of embarrassing revelations about his relationship with a cocaine-dealing pimp from Bari.

 ROME -- Italian politicians have a pretty high opinion of the themselves on the whole.

 ROME -- Investigating magistrates were interrogating Monday a 45-year-old Italian engineer accused of killing a 23-year-old woman student by persuading her and a young wo

ROME--Thousands of Italians took to the streets on Tuesday on strike against the government’s new austerity measures.

ROME -- On Saturday a man vandalized the Fontana del Moro in Piazza Navona, knocking off two chunks of marble, the creatures faces adjacent to the larger head above.

 FLORENCE -- The Florentine policeman looked at me sharply then quickly punched the side of my head.

ROME-- The average savvy tourists know exactly when they are being taken for a ride and are adept at side stepping this unfortunate occurrence.

ROME -- Europe is on the brink and its youth is getting angry.

ROME -- For the last month, Italy has been buffetted more than most by the financial storm hitting Europe and the US.

ROME -- The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has said he will continue to press the Italian government on behalf of scores of hard up Italy-based university lecturers from the UK in their ong

ROME -- There are a number of self portraits of the painter looking out from the background of biblical dramas. But there is one painting that can tell us what he thought about himself.