Italy

Business Series

Google to pay 306 million euros additional tax to Italy

Google's parent company - Alphabet - is to pay 306 million euros to settle a tax dispute with Italy covered 13 years up to 2015.

04/05/2017

Sport

Italian football legend Francesco Totti will retire at end of season

The 40-year-old legend, who was widely expected to retire from football at the end of last season, will hang up his boots after 25 seasons at AS Roma.

03/05/2017

Business Series

Bankrupt Alitalia starts the difficult job of finding a buyer

Alitalia has been put under special administration by the government after workers voted against job and pay cuts in a rescue plan.

03/05/2017

Business Series

Alitalia: on a wing and a prayer

Loss-making Alitalia is asking the Rome government to place it under special administration, leading to it being overhauled, sold off or shut down.

02/05/2017

Italy

Renzi resurgence - former Italian PM regains party leadership

Democratic Party members re-elect Matteo Renzi as their leader, as the former PM mounts a political comeback

01/05/2017

Italy

Growing row in Italy over claims of NGOs colluding with smugglers

There is growing controversy in Italy over claims that some NGOs involved in the rescue of migrants at sea have been colluding with Libyan people smugglers.

29/04/2017

Italy

Italy helps dismantle Berlin-based terror cell linked to market attacker

Italian police have revealed they helped Germany to dismantle a Berlin-based terror cell.

28/04/2017

Business Series

Alitalia workers reject rescue plan

Two thirds of Alitalia's workers have voted to reject a management restructuring plan. The loss-making airline is set to run out of cash in weeks.

25/04/2017

Italy

Freed journalist returns to Italy

Gabriele del Grande was detained in Turkey two weeks ago while doing research for a book He has been released and has flown straight back to Italy.

24/04/2017

Sport

Italian cyclist Scarponi killed in traffic collision

37-year-old struck by a van on a training ride, according to his team

22/04/2017

Italy

Italian cycling champion Michele Scarponi killed in road accident

The sporting world is mourning the death of the Italian cycling champion Michele Scarponi.

22/04/2017

Italy

Italy donates boats to Libya in effort to fight human trafficking

The Italian Coast Guard has donated two rescue boats to its Libyan counterpart as part of an agreement to fight the trafficking of migrants across the…

21/04/2017

Italy

Italy's top court reviews case of Costa Concordia captain

Italy’s highest court has begun reviewing the case of the captain of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner.

20/04/2017

Business Series

Alitalia workers vote on last-chance rescue plan

Alitalia's workers are voting on a make-or-break deal over job and pay cuts. If they reject it, the loss-making Italian airline will run out of money.

20/04/2017

Next Series

Looking at Earth as a planet

What defines Earth as a planet? We're visit a Roman aqueduct and a satellite control centre to find out in this episode of Space.

20/04/2017

Italy

Tourists toss more than €1.4m into Rome's Trevi Fountain

Tourists threw more than 1.

17/04/2017

Next Series

Legumes see new life in flowerpots

From Italy to Slovenia, European bioplastics research is booming and blooming.

17/04/2017

Next Series

Takeaway: Zero waste from green waste

This flower pot is made with a new bioplastic Instead of oil, it is made with waste from the legume industry Vegetal proteins and fibers are extracted and mixed with biopolymer This eco-friendly mater

17/04/2017

Italy

World's Oldest Person dies aged 117

The world’s oldest person, Emma Morano has died at her home in Italy aged 117.

15/04/2017

Italy

Italy's comic actor Toto honoured 50 years after his death

Italy’s one-time favourite comic actor is being honoured on the 50th anniversary of his death.

15/04/2017

Italy

Good Friday: Pope leads 'Way of the Cross' service at Colosseum

Pope Francis raised the themes of shame and hope as he led the traditional ‘Way of the Cross’ service at Rome’s Colosseum, late on Good Friday.

15/04/2017

Sport

AC Milan seek rebirth with Chinese investment

Both clubs in the Italian city of Milan now belong to Chinese investors and mastermind of the AC Milan sale Yonghong Li has met the Italian press alongside CEO Marco Fassone.

14/04/2017

Sport

Sweet and sour Chinese consortium buys AC Milan

AC Milan goes the way of Inter after Far East buyout

13/04/2017

Italy

Syria: G7 rejects fresh sanction plan as Tillerson flies to Moscow

Turkey's health minister is quoted as saying traces of sarin gas have been found on the bodies of those who died in Khan Sheikhoun last week.

11/04/2017

Italy

Violent clashes at G7 in Italy

Police wielding batons managed to push the protesters back. Italian media are reporting that five or six police officers were slightly injured during the scuffles.

10/04/2017

Business Series

It is rocket science: Avio launches on Milan stock exchange

Italian rocket engine maker Avio launches its shares on the Milan exchange, raising money to better compete against rivals SpaceX and Blue Origin.

10/04/2017