British telecoms and television broadcasting firm BT Group on Friday posted a 42-percent slump in profits during its first quarter, rocked by fresh fallout from an Italian accounting scandal.
The German government has accused
Fiat-Chrysler of incorporating emissions cheating technology into some vehicles, in a letter to the European Commission seen by AFP on Thursday.
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?
Wiretaps of the pope's private conversations allegedly recorded by a racy social climber and a Spanish prelate are rocking the Catholic Church after confidential information including claims of theft and debauchery was passed to investigative journalists.
Italy's national broadcaster, Rai, is in the spotlight after it emerged it paid €24,000 to former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis for giving a 22-minute interview.
Ignazio Marino has hinted that he might rescind his resignation as mayor of Rome after convincing prosecutors of his innocence in an expenses scandal that forced him to quit earlier this month.
Volkswagen's Italian unit said on Thursday that nearly 650,000 vehicles in the country were equipped with software designed to mask emissions from diesel engines.
An educational charity launched by Pope Francis said on Thursday it will no longer accept money from South America's football confederation until allegations of massive corruption in world football are laid to rest.
The president of Italy's football federation (FIGC), Carlo Tavecchio, pledged to eradicate the "criminals and tricksters" following the eruption of a sports betting scandal which an investigating magistrate said underlined the "sick" nature of Italian football.
Claudio Scarpa, head of the Venice hoteliers' association, said on Wednesday that Italy’s famous lagoon city is “being dragged through the mud” after its mayor was arrested as part of a corruption probe surrounding a project to protect the city from flooding.
L'Espresso, the Italian weekly, alleges that Monsignor Battista Ricca, who was recently appointed to a key position at the bank, had gay relationships during his time at the Vatican embassy, or nunciature, of Montevideo in Uruguay.
An Italian journalist has claimed that disgraced former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her while he was France’s finance minister in the late 1990s, it was reported on Wednesday.
