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Police at Germany's Munich airport stopped two Italian women who were carrying luggage containing the remains of a man who died in Brazil 11 years ago.
A suspected Mafia clan member weighing 210 kilograms was placed under house arrest after putting too heavy a burden on prison staff
Italy's highest court has ruled that a woman wearing jeans cannot be raped. The Supreme Court of Appeal in Rome on Wednesday overturned a rape conviction, saying that the supposed victim must have agreed to sex because her jeans could not have been removed without her consent.
Italy's highest appeal court has ruled that married women are entitled to lie about committing adultery, even in judicial investigations, to protect their honour.
Italian police have found a new height of craftsmanship and cunning when they broke up a ring selling fake Ferrari cars for a fraction of the real price.
These days, the coveted "Made in Italy" label on those Prada bags and Gucci shoes, which can quadruple a price, may not mean what it used to.
Former motorcycling world champion Valentino Rossi has reached agreement to hand over 19m euros (£14m) in unpaid taxes to the Italian authorities.
Three French members of the Church of Scientology, suspected of holding a fourth person against their will, were arrested Monday in Nuoro, Sardinia, a local police spokesman told AFP.
Recording secret videos of sex with your partner is not illegal, Italy's Supreme Court has ruled.
One of the world's biggest cement companies, Italcementi, has announced it is closing its subsidiary in Sicily in protest at mafia extortion.
A 77-year-old Italian burst into a hospital ward where his wife was being treated for Alzheimer's disease and killed her with three gunshots because he "couldn't stand seeing her suffering", he told police.
Rome's mayor has sacked the city's traffic and parking chief after a newspaper reported he parked his car in a no parking zone. The newspaper also said he displayed a handicapped permit that belonged to an 86-year-old woman.
Italian prosecutors opened a manslaughter inquiry after a football fan was shot dead by a policeman, sparking nationwide riots, as the Government urged football officials to consider suspending the championship.
The European parliament's far-right bloc faces collapse after Romanian MEPs said they would quit over an Italian colleague's "xenophobic" remarks.
A Catholic priest has blocked an Italian transgender parliamentarian from being a bridesmaid at a relative's wedding, drawing protest from her political party.
Inmates from a prison just outside Milan will help Italy fight global warming by making environment-friendly ice cream from local milk and berries and fruits, Italian farmers' group Coldiretti said on Thursday.
Italian authorities say they have lost contact with two of their soldiers serving in western Afghanistan. In a statement carried by Italian news agency Ansa, the defence ministry said contact had been "interrupted for several hours", and they were missing.
Italian consumers have been asked to boycott pasta for the day as part of a protest over price rises.
The Sicilian Mafia, the Cosa Nostra, is facing a revolt by local businessmen who refuse to pay protection money. Until now almost every business in the Sicilian capital, Palermo, has paid off the Mafia or faced retribution.
Director Ridley Scott turned grumpy old man yesterday, declaring 97% of modern films "stupid" and claiming mobile phone and other modern technology was killing cinema.
The passengers on board the Vatican's first flight to Lourdes may have been pilgrims in search of spiritual healing, but they still had to obey anti-terrorism rules, it has emerged, after several of them had their holy water confiscated. The Vatican's new service, a Boei …
An Italian military aircraft spotted the apparently dead bodies of six migrants floating in the sea off the island of Lampedusa, the navy said.
Archaeologists have discovered a more than 2,000-year-old Etruscan tomb perfectly preserved in the hills of Tuscany with a treasure trove of artefacts inside, including urns that hold the remains of about 30 people.
Italian police tipped off by an anonymous phone call found a 70-year old woman living with the corpses of two older sisters who had died roughly a year ago, an Italian news agency said on Friday.
Love, in all its splendor and mess, found a fit expression on Rome's oldest bridge last year. Inspired by a best-selling book, then the movie version, young couples wrote their names on a padlock. They chained it around a lamppost on Ponte Milvio.
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