The leader of Italy's populist Five Star Movement party appears rattled by accusations that it is behind a network of fake news sites, but sidestepped some key questions in his response to the claims.
Germany's top consumer rights organization Stiftung Warentest revealed that 16 of 21 chocolate spreads they tested contain potentially cancer-causing toxins. An all-clear for Nutella though - the beloved Italian brand is fungus-free and flavourful as ever.
A man carrying what turned out to be a plastic gun sparked an evacuation at Rome's main train station late on Monday after railway police received an alert that an armed man was on the city's transport network.
A French woman is facing charges for counterfeiting after she allegedly created a cloned Prada website, which sold fake copies of merchandise made by the famous Italian fashion house.
Italian police have confiscated 3,500 fake
"papal benedictions" worth €70,000 in a blitz on counterfeit goods which saw one million objects seized in a week, the interior ministry
said on Monday.
Olive oil has been a staple part of the Italian diet since time immemorial. But how do you tell the real deal apart from the cheap copies flooding the market?
Seven Italian olive oil producers, including Bertolli, Sasso and Carapelli, are being investigated over allegations that the firms falsely sold olive oil products a “extra virgin”.
An 18-year-old migrant from Gambia wowed an Abruzzo football club with his silky football skills after convincing them he was a Senegalese football player.
Doubts emerged on Wednesday over the authenticity of an Italian painting supposedly worth $1.5 million, which hit headlines after a 12-year-old boy punched a hole through it as he tripped and fell during an exhibition in Taiwan.
An Italian court overturned on Monday a €500,000 fine slapped on TripAdvisor for failing to warn users that some opinions posted on the popular hotel and restaurant review website may be fakes.
An illegal underground laboratory where cured meat from Poland was boned and re-labeled as Italian has been raided by police in Villaricca, near Naples.
The Italian farmers association Coldiretti has warned of a growing number of counterfeit Italian goods in Russia after a fake Italian cheese was discovered in the Russian pavilion at the World Expo.
A 60-year-old man has been charged with identity theft after allegedly parading around the Italian island of Ischia as a priest and hosting mass in private homes.
A 56-year-old doctor who pretended to be paraplegic for three years in a bid to get a €1.2 million payout and a lifetime pension, has been arrested in Turin.
Italy's financial police said Thursday they had seized over one million fake €50 banknotes which were almost ready to be put into circulation, and arrested five people.
Shoppers looking to step out in the perfect Gucci shoes but save on the price tag were thwarted on Thursday by Italian
police, who seized over a thousand counterfeit pairs.
Finance Police in Siena have seized 160,000 litres of Tuscan wine falsely labelled as Brunello and Rosso di Montalcino wine, which are among Italy’s most prestigious and expensive wines.
A man in Italy's southern Calabria region has been arrested for allegedly masquerading as an officer from the financial police, inviting Italians to join the force in exchange for cash and favours.
Four factory workers at the Italian car manufacturer Fiat have been fired for enacting the fake suicide of CEO Sergio Marchionne in retaliation for the suicide of a colleague in May.
Three fake Amedeo Modigliani head sculptures, produced in 1984 by students from Livorno in what has been described as the greatest hoax in the history of Italian art, are due to go on display in a bid to draw tourists to the Ligurian port city.
A Malaysian aviation official came under fire on social media Tuesday for evoking black Italian footballer Mario Balotelli when discussing two passengers who boarded a missing jet with stolen European passports.
A man dressed as a priest, and carrying a suitcase emblazoned with holy symbols, was arrested while trying to cross the Italian border from France with six kilograms of cocaine.
An Italian man and his son were at the helm of a Europe-wide French counterfeit wine operation, which had produced at least 400 fake bottles of a prestigious Burgundy Pinot Noir.
