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Homes evacuated as wildfires rage in Italy

Residents were moved from their homes as firefighters battled to extinguish a wildfire around Val di Susa.

23/10/2017

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How to avoid putting water in your wine

One of the agricultural products most affected by counterfeiting is wine. So we need new methods for find out what we are really drinking.

23/10/2017

Italy

Leaders get lost during Venice marathon, local takes advantage

Local runner wins after motorcycle blunder.

23/10/2017

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Takeaway: Wine fraud

How do you know the wine you drink is actually the one you think you bought?

23/10/2017

Italy

Italian regions push for financial autonomy

Voters in Lombardy and Veneto back greater autonomy from Rome but deny being like Catalonia

23/10/2017

Italy

Italy: Lombardy and Veneto regions vote on autonomy

The two northern regions have been staging non-binding referendums on Sunday.

22/10/2017

Italy

Italian regions flex muscles in autonomy refrerenda

Lombardy and Veneto are asking for a bigger share of the tax take and spending powers in twin votes on autonomy from Rome.

20/10/2017

Italy

Who needs Rome? Italian regions vote on autonomy

First Scotland, then Catalonia. Now the Italian regions of Lombardy and Veneto are voting this Sunday on whether to demand more autonomy from the central government.

20/10/2017

Italy

10 things you need to know about Italy's Lombardy and Veneto autonomy referendums

Voters in the wealthy Italian regions will head to the polls on October 22

18/10/2017

Italy

Protests against citizenship for migrant children in Italy

Around 1,000 people have protested in Rome against giving citizenship to the children of migrants

15/10/2017

Italy

One of Japan's most famous artists, Katsushika Hokusai, gets a major exhibition in Rome

The complete works of Katsushika Hokusai are on show in Rome until mid-January 2018.

13/10/2017

Italy

Iconic Colosseum to reopen 'pleb tier'

Colosseum to reopen fifth and top tier to public.

10/10/2017

Italy

Marseille attacker's brother arrested

An Italian anti-terrorism squad arrested 25-year-old Anis Hannachi in Ferrara, Italy

09/10/2017

Earth News

24 hours in Trieste

First task: to discard any expectations that the city will fall neatly into your folder of Italian stereotypes.

06/10/2017

Italy

Italy's heritage under threat

Some of the world's most celebrated sites are at risk from a combination of manmade and natural threats.

04/10/2017

Italy

Courthouse café serves up a whole latte help to reform criminals

04/10/2017

Italy

The very short guide to why gravitational waves matter

The Nobel Prize for physics has been awarded for research into gravitational waves.

03/10/2017

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Underwater robots monitor Venice lagoon

An international team of scientists has launched an unprecedented exploration project in the waterways beneath Venice with swarms of autonomous underwater…

02/10/2017

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Takeaway: The underwater swarm

Cute robot, isn´t it?

02/10/2017

Ecotech

The £2m hypercar

McLaren hybrid hypercar worth £2 millions.

02/10/2017

Italy

Scientists home in on source of gravitational waves

Discovery could be step towards 'hearing' the Big Bang

28/09/2017

Italy

Italy: police arrest more than 20 people in anti-mafia crackdown in Lombardy

26/09/2017

Italy

Pilot dies in crash during Italian airshow

The accident happened as the aircraft's pilot attempted to pull out of a high-altitude loop

25/09/2017

Cult

Lucio Fontana, Master of Space and Light

Lucio Fontana, one of the most influent artists of the XX° century is on display in Milano for an unique exhibition

22/09/2017

Business Planet

Fighting space junk

This week in Business Planet we look at the problem posed by space debris and meet some of those who are developing solutions.

22/09/2017

Italy

Picasso exhibition in Rome celebrates centenary of artist's visit to Italy

The father of Cubism and collage travelled to Italy with Jean Cocteau for a 1917 production of the ballet 'Parade'.

22/09/2017