Italy

Cult

World's largest mosaic underway in Italy

Born of a desire to decorate an ordinary 1960s church, artists in this tiny Italian village are making the world's largest mosaic.

27/11/2017

Italy

Mapping the mafia: Italy's web of criminal gangs explained

In the last 20 years Calabrian's 'ndrangheta, of which one of the main bosses was arrested on Monday, has become Italian most powerful criminal syndicate

22/11/2017

Italy

Italian Mafia Riina buried in Sicily

Salvatore Riina, Italian Mafia’s ‘Boss of Bosses, has been buried in Sicily

22/11/2017

Earth News

Three Stars in the Mountains

Italian restaurant St. Hubertus is the first to win three Michelin stars in three years in Italy.

19/11/2017

Italy

A new beginning for Cosa Nostra mafia?

'The boss is in charge until his death.' Italy's National Antimafia Prosecutor speaks to euronews about the death of Salvatore Riina.

17/11/2017

Italy

Former Cosa Nostra 'boss of bosses' Toto Riina has died

He was one of the most feared Godfathers in the history of the Sicilian Mafia.

17/11/2017

Italy

Ikea trolls Italian football team

Ikea mocked the Italian football team on Twitter after they failed to qualify for the World Cup 2018.

16/11/2017

Sport

Buffon retires after failed World Cup bid

A tearful Gianluigi Buffon has ended his 20-year goalkeeping career with Italy in the saddest possible way as they failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time in 60 years

14/11/2017

Italy

Football: Italy fail to qualify for a World Cup for the first time in 60 years

Italy miss World Cup for the first time since 1958

13/11/2017

Sport

World Cup qualifiers: Italy under pressure

The heat is on for Italy ahead of tonights's second-leg playoff against Sweden.

13/11/2017

Italy

Brother of Ostia mafia boss breaks Italian journalist's nose during interview

Italian journalist receives head-butt from mafia boss’ brother while reporting on the outcome of local elections in Ostia, Italy

10/11/2017

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Highest water levels reached in Venice in four years

Tourists are forced to wear boots to stay dry as water levels in Venice reach their highest in four years

08/11/2017

Italy

Ban on cruise ships in central Venice planned

Authorities have come up with a new plan that would ban the largest cruise ships from passing in front of St Mark's Square

08/11/2017

Italy

Water levels rise in Venice after heavy rainfall

Inclement weather in Italy causes water to rise by over a metre in the canal city while some regions see first snow of the season.

07/11/2017

Italy

Migrants celebrate arrival in Italy

Hundreds of migrants sang, danced and cheered as they reached the port of Crotone in southern Italy on a NGO rescue ship.

06/11/2017

Italy

Bodies of 23 migrants recovered from Mediterranean Sea

05/11/2017

Italy

Italian neo-nazis rally over new citizenship law

Thousands marched in Rome to protest against the government's proposal to reform citizenship procedures for descendants of immigrants living in Italy

04/11/2017

Italy

Italy seizes huge drugs haul intended for ISIL fighters

Italian officers discovered a shipment of drugs worth around 50 million euros intended for ISIL fighters.

03/11/2017

Italy

Anti-war plea from Pope as he prays for WW2 victims

Pope Francis visited a US military cemetery and the site of a Nazi massacre in Rome

02/11/2017

Earth News

In conversation with Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

We sit down with the Italian collector, minutes before the opening of the new exhibition ‘Like a moth to a flame’ shown in Turin this November.

02/11/2017

Italy

Mafia boss ‘ordered his daughter’s murder over policeman relationship’

He told his son to kill his own sister.

31/10/2017

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Italy: tackling forest fires

Fire brigades work though the night to battle forest fires.

30/10/2017

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Rome's Trevi Fountain turns red after protester dumps dye into it.

Rome's Trevi Fountain has turned red after an activist poured dye into it to protest against Rome's 'corruption and filth.'

27/10/2017

Cinema

The Rome Film Festival opens its 12th edition with Scott Cooper’s new film "Hostiles"

Rosamund Pike, director Scott Cooper and Wes Studi lit up the red carpet in Rome for their latest film, "Hostiles," which opened the 12th Rome Film Festival.

27/10/2017

Italy

Art attacks demean Rome's cultural heritage says city's curator

The dying of the Trevi fountain red by serial shock artist Graziano Cecchini does nothing for the city's image claims cultural curator.

27/10/2017

Italy

Greenpeace protest in Rome after finding dangerous citywide air pollution

Greenpeace target diesel users in the Italian capital after finding Nitrogen Dioxide levels above WHO safety guidelines

26/10/2017