Authorities say one stretch of the picturesque region of Puglia is infested with local mob bosses who extort money from beach resort owners and use the coastline for drug trafficking. Locals are scared silent.
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After big plans in Pisa for a new Ikea store were scrapped, the Swedish furniture mega store has run into another local administrative wall outside of Turin. The price of entering the Italian market remains frustratingly high.
The 41-year-old Italian was bidding farewell to his brother, who’d been killed by a truck in Mexico.
Survivors say the boat stranded off the Italian island of Lampedusa had absolutely no room on deck. Bodies of victims were found in the hold below, and showed signs of struggle.
Concluding that the “hardware” of brain activity when we sleep is basically the same as when we don’t, Italian researchers have been able to measure brain activity of people who have remembered their dreams after waking up.
Venice is falling apart at the seams – quite literally in some of its best-known places. Critics say unregulated tourism is destroying Italy’s beautiful and fragile lagoon city.
A handful of elementary schools in northern Italy have taken to teaching children about bird hunting. Environmentalists are crying foul and asking the national government to ban school courses that promote killing wildlife.
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Food Design: A New Eating Aesthetic
Design is not just furniture and objects of art, but also web pages, infrastructure, our bodies, and, now, even food.
Aimed at assisting police in tracking down those running Naples’ infamous racket of illegal parking, a new Google maps page may be more useful for those desperate for a spot.
Just a month after 20 people were killed in northern Italy when a low-flying American military jet clipped a gondola line, the U.S. had already concluded that the crew and their supervisors were at fault. The pilot was later acquitted of manslaugher charg
An Italian mobster is on trial for allegedly killing his ex-wife. Their teenage daughter, hoping to “re-start her life,” will take the witness stand — testifying not only against her father, but also against a pair of gangster uncles an
New rules in the Italian city could require all public workers to get docked for every time they step outside the office for a smoke.
A political battle erupts when locals objecting to the arrival of bears decide to hold a very particular kind of barbecue.
Our Milan business and finance correspondent is moving back to Germany. Before leaving, he tried his hand at small-time Italian entrepreneurship: selling the entire contents of his apartment. Not so easy, as it turns out.
When it comes to swimwear this summer, Europe’s fashionistas say covering it up can be super cool.
Tunisia’s recent “Jasmine revolution” has brought much of the country’s economy to a standstill. Foreign tourists are still a rare sight right now, but long-established Italian companies are eager to reignite old economic ties.
Designer Giorgio Armani gave reporters an earful Tuesday following a fashion event in Milan, Italy.
In crime-infested Calabria, the famed Italian national soccer team takes a stand against local mob intimidation by training on a field confiscated from a notorious boss.
Interest in Mark Zuckerberg’s once red-hot Facebook is starting to cool off. In the United States, Canada and the UK, millions actually closed their accounts last year. For some reason, though, Italians are still wild about the website.
A sheep that crossed the sea from Tunisia adds a light twist to the daily human drama of immigrants landing on the Italian island of Lampedusa. But the warmth doesn’t last.
Style and technology fuel a unique contest among international design schools to see who can conceive of the best futuristic model of the famous Italian sports car. Fuel efficiency counts – so does pure power.
Milan city officials have given the green light to the largest ever Israeli celebration outside of Israel, to take place next week in the Italian city’s central Duomo piazza. Pro-Palestinian groups have vowed to protest the event.
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Silvio Berlusconi: The Magic Is Gone
Editorial: The drubbing suffered in local elections shows Silvio Berlusconi increasingly obsessed with his own personal and judicial woes — and losing touch with the sentiments of everyday Italians. La Stampa editor Mario Calabresi weighs in.
An overview of the Libyan sovereign wealth fund’s bad moves, including investments in some of Italy’s top firms such as energy giant ENI and industrialist Finmeccanica
Best known for his operas, Gioachino Rossini also had quite a flair for culinary composition. That hardly comes as a surprise considering he grew up on Italy’s Adriatic coast, which continues to wow visitors with its natural beauty, exquisite architecture
A parish priest near Genoa is facing pedophilia and drug charges just as the Vatican lays out new guidelines for responding to sex abuse cases. Genoa’s Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, who was integral to establishing the new guidelines, has visited the local ch
Armed only with her baby bump and an album of wedding photos, Winny Khamiri of Holland is currently on the Italian island of Lampedusa where African immigrants arrive by the boatload, trying to rescue her Tunisian husband, scheduled for deportation.
After designing London’s Millennium Bridge and the Beijing airport’s international terminal renowned architect Norman Foster is now looking to leave his mark on the Dolomite Mountains, with a ski lodge billed as seven-star luxury. But some local
In keeping with their country’s world famous culinary heritage, Italy’s top corporations have abandoned standard team-building activities in favor of group cooking classes.
With Osama bin Laden and Mafiosi, similar patterns emerge when ultra-infamous criminals are forced into hiding.
A new survey asks U.S. students about the high-profile case of the American convicted of murder in Perugia. A surprisingly high number say they consider Amanda Knox’s fate when weighing whether to study abroad in Italy.
In Calabria, on the southern heel of the Italian boot, the ‘Ndrangheta crime syndicate may be more powerful than the Church, or even soccer. And on Easter, they all want to hold Santa Maria.
Editorial: Berlusconi’s use of the political system to fight his personal battles has become so overwhelming that little else is pursued in Italian public life. Tale of a nation blocked by one man’s troubles.
Red-hot contemporary sculptor Jeff Koons among 19 artists featured in Italian museum’s latest exhibition, which runs through Dec. 31, 2012.
A portrait of Italian activist and journalist Vittorio Arrigoni who was found dead in the Gaza Strip early on Friday, following his abduction on Thursday. His mother had been expecting him back home.
Socially conservative Italy isn’t likely to embrace gay marriage anytime soon. That hasn’t stopped one same-sex couple from trying. While Savona’s Francesco and Manuel haven’t yet managed to tie the knot, they did come
Essay: Approximately 250 North African migrants died this week when their boat capsized off the coast of Italy’s Lampedusa island. According to writer Ferdinando Camon, the tragedy challenges everything Europeans thought they knew about immigrati
From the Internet’s real-time encyclopedia of information to GPS navigators, new technology makes our brains work slower. But scientists show how we can kick our minds back into action.
This debonair Spaniard and Opus Dei member spent more than two decades alongside the Polish pontiff. As John Paul II moves one step closer to sainthood with Sunday’s beatification, Navarro-Valls says the departed Pope is still not fully understoo
The Venus of Morgantina, a priceless pre-Christ statue, crosses land and sea after Malibu’s Getty Museum agrees to let her go after a long battle over business, laws and history. (maveric2003) ENNA – The Venus of Morgantina, a priceless statue dating back to the fifth century B.C., has made it home to a remote Sicilian […]