Authorities in a small town in Campania have riled residents after agreeing to spend a whopping €150 million - on building a statue in honour of the Italian saint, Padre Pio, that will be even bigger than the Statue of Liberty.
Angry Italian farmers made a gigantic sandwich stuffed with cured meat and sausages in a bid to stop alarmist concerns over the alleged link between processed meat and cancer.
Italian energy company Eni said on Sunday it has found one of the world’s largest natural gas fields - so big it could supply Egypt with natural gas for decades.
Twin Italian brothers came within a whisker of a European record when they reeled in a catfish weighing 127kg in northern Italy’s River Po – with just a fishing rod.
Europe's drugs watchdog on Wednesday said it found no evidence to link the Novartis flu vaccine Fluad to a scare in Italy, where 19 people are reported to have died after being given the jab.
The Italian Pharmaceutical Agency (Aifa) said on Monday it has now been notified of 19 deaths among people who had recently taken a Novartis flu vaccine, but that initial testing had ruled out contamination of two batches of the drug which were taken out of circulation last week.
Nestlé Italy said on Thursday that a disabled staff member, who was initially sacked for publicly criticizing company managers over Facebook, will no longer lose her job.
UPDATED: Swiss food giant Nestlé fired a disabled member of staff at its Perugina chocolate division after she posted a message on Facebook in which she “undermined the authority” of managers.
Italy's oil and gas giant Eni achieved a 2.5-percent rise in net profit in the third quarter, it said on Thursday despite a drop in production and falling oil prices.
Over 11,000 Italians have taken advantage of the May ruling by the EU Court of Justice that gave Europeans the right to request search engines like Google remove results about them.
The Italian government and national energy giant ENI will send seven fire-fighting planes to help combat an inferno
raging at an oil depot on the outskirts of Tripoli, Libyan authorities said on Tuesday.
Italy’s highest court has ordered the Swedish telecoms giant, Ericsson, to pay €859,000 in compensation to an Italian family after one of its employees died of a heart attack due to work-related stress.
Italian industrial and aerospace giant Finmeccanica on Tuesday reported a €12 million($17-million) first quarter
loss compared to a €6.0 million profit a year earlier due to European and US defence cuts.
A man posing as a security guard robbed €60,000 from the flagship store of the Swedish fashion giant, H&M, in Rome after holding a shop assistant at gunpoint.
US tech giant Apple said on Thursday that it fully pays the taxes it owes everywhere, and was confident that a tax
evasion probe in Italy would find it in compliance.
US computer giant Apple is under investigation in Italy for allegedly failing to declare over €1.0 billion to the tax
man, Italian media reported on Wednesday.
