Two Italians who led an attack against ten football fans of the British Premiership club Tottenham have had their sentences reduced by one year by Rome’s Court of Appeal, Italian media reported.
Italy is among the top 20 countries in the world when it comes to tackling climate change, according to a report published on Monday as the United Nations Climate Conference gets underway in Peru.
Italian lottery operator GTECH said on Wednesday it had agreed to buy US slot machine maker International Game Technology (IGT) for $4.7 billion (€3.5 billion) in a deal highlighting Italy's role in global gambling.
Close to a hundred refugees, most of whom appear to come from Syria, were intercepted on a train traveling into Austria from Italy and heading to Germany on Saturday night.
The European Union said on Wednesday that it had launched a fresh challenge to Russia at the World Trade Organization, seeking to strike down Moscow's import duties on vans from Italy and Germany.
A high rate of survival coupled with a low birth rate makes Italy's population the second-oldest in Europe and one of the oldest in the world, according to figures from Istat, the national statistical agency.
Italian police on Thursday arrested eleven people in connection with an alleged Chinese immigration racket in and around the Tuscan town of Prato, where seven people died in a Chinese-run clothes factory on Sunday.
Air France-KLM has laid out strict conditions for further investment in Italy's troubled Alitalia airline, including the culling of 5,000 jobs, Italy's top business daily reported on Sunday.
Rome will be on high alert this weekend as an estimated 15,000 people take to the streets to protest against austerity. Mayor Ignazio Marino called for "no violence" as he announced that 4,000 police officers will be drated in to patrol the two-day demonstration, which begins on Friday.
Italian journalist Domenico Quirico on Tuesday said he and Belgian teacher Pierre Piccinin faced "daily humiliation" during their five months in captivity in Syria and were "treated like animals" by their captors.
While first denied Italian nationality, Mario Balotelli has gone on to be cheered by fans at stadiums nationwide. This week he was named "most interesting man in the world" by Sports Illustrated, making him our Italian face of the week.
