From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips. As Italy prepares to...

he 14-car train was traveling from the northern city of La Spezia to Pisa when a rear car plowed into a residential neighborhood beside the train station in the Tuscan...

While vacationing in Pisa earlier this summer, a roommate of mine at the hostel I was staying in in Rome recommended at I spend a day in Cinque Terre. Accessible by a...

The Economist has succeeded to catch some curious glances through this billboard. By shooting some questions, the billboard leaves the viewer groping for answers. The...

Baci perugina, the chocolate brand in Italy, banks on love and romance to make it sweet and tempting. In its integrated campaign, the chocolate brand decided to sell...

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has denied allegations he paid prostitutes who attended parties at his official residencies. In an interview with Italian...

Three Italian female academics are calling on Gordon Brown’s wife, Sarah, President Obama’s wife, Michele and other leaders’ spouses not to attend the...

Given the current economic crisis, designers are not experimenting with avant-garde clothing, but sticking to easy to understand, familiar styles from the classic suit...

For years, millions of hot-blooded Italian men have secretly wished they could gatecrash one of the parties hosted by their ebullient prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi,...

One word was on the minds of Italians yesterday: blackmail. Could the claims emerging daily against Silvio Berlusconi leave him open to the kind of persuasion that...

It is troubling enough that Italy’s rhetorically offensive Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi comes from a family that controls “half the television output,...

At the World Air Games in Turin, Italy, the much-awaited SkySpark set a world record in achieving a top speed of 155 mph. SkySpark is a 100% electrically powered...

So many questions. How did Silvio Berlusconi and Colonel Gaddafi become friends in the first place? Even more pressingly, how did Muammar Gaddafi - expeller of Libyan...

Two Japanese nationals were detained by Italian financial police last week after trying to enter Switzerland with $134 billion worth of undeclared U.S. bonds, mostly...

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi flies into Rome today on his first visit to Italy, celebrating the end of decades of animosity between his country and its former colonial...

The magistrate wondered — in all seriousness — if my recent article in The New York Times about Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s personal life could be evidence...

Silvio Berlusconi put his future on the line yesterday, announcing that he would resign if he was “caught lying” about his relationship to Noemi Letizia, 18, the...

“Is there anyone who has any questions about underage females?” Not the typical way for the leader of a G8 nation to begin a formal news conference. But...

Silvio Berlusconi’s relationship with an 18-year-old Neapolitan woman dominated Italy’s campaign for the European parliament yesterday as critics demanded...

The murders of two courageous Sicilian judges in 1992 shocked Italy to the core, scandalised Europe, and forced the Italian state to take the Mafia threat seriously for...