ROME — The revolutionary new labour contract engineered by Sergio Marchionne, CEO of the Fiat Group, passed with a narrow majority of just over 400 votes, most of them

ROME- Judges from Italy’s Constitutional Court have called for a compromise in the law shielding Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from prosecution, allowing individual judges to decide whether he c

ROME — When Silvio Berlusconi recently commented it was “better to be passionate about beautiful women than to be gay” many interpreted it as a dig at his rising political rival.

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ROME – Hundreds of millions of euros invested in Montenegro by Italy are syphoned into accounts controlled by Montenegrin leader Milo Djukanovic and

ROME — While France and Belgium debate the merits of a ban on the burka, the Northern League mayor of the Italian town of Novara has forged ahead with a by-law forbidding the wearing of clothes tha

CASTELLAMARE DEL GOLFO, Sicily – I have to thank Bonelli’s Eagle for my spending the night inside the Zingaro Nature Reserve near Trapani, on the western tip of Sicily.

ROME — Anger over corruption and nepotism in the government of President Kurmanbek Bakiev contributed to the violent unrest that broke out in the central Asian republic

The recent earthquake that struck Italy is a vivid example of the deadly consequences corruption in a government can have on a population.

SANT'AMBROGIO DI VALPOLICELLA - Outraged Italian wine producers led by the poet Dante Alighieri’s direct descendant are up in arms against plans to build a massive waste

Rome—When John Paul II became pope in 1978 he inherited a number of relationships that would later prove embarrassing for the Vatican.

ROME --When the need to make out was urgent, not weighed against getting a night’s sleep, my Italian boyfriend and I did what everyone in Italy without their own place does when in need of sex.

 ROME | A friendship agreement between Italy and Libya is falling apart barely a month after it was signed over accusations that the North Af