We publish a summary of Oriana Fallaci’s interview with Colonel Gheddafi, which appeared in the Corriere della Sera on 2 December 1979. The text comes from the second part of their conversation, in ...

Balloons and Vasco Rossi music for Sic’s farewell. At least 25,000 attend service. Valentino Rossi takes charge of Honda number 58 MILAN – Marco Simoncelli’s coffin was carried into church by friends ...

How much of your Christmas bonus will have to go on property taxes? As things stand, you can't know even though it's less than three months till the end of the year. Right now, it is not possible to ...

ROME – The marble-clad external façade was white while the inside walls were as red as the blood shed by the gladiators. Here and there were patches of black and sky blue. This was how the Colosseum ...

MILAN – Investigators dealt a body blow to the hardest criminal organisation of all to penetrate as Carabinieri and police officers swooped on suspected members of the ’Ndrangheta. There were 304 ...

VATICAN CITY – The new photo archive with millions of pictures from the 19th century to the present day will be opened, the Sistine Chapel’s lighting and climate control facilities will be renovated ...

MILAN – A five-floor fall from the San Giovanni hospital in Rome was the final act in the life of Mario Monicelli, last of the great maestros of the Italian cinema. At about 9 pm on Monday evening, ...

AVETRANA – Confirmation has come from the post-mortem examination. Sarah Scazzi, the teenager murdered by her uncle on 26 August, was strangled. What remains to be ascertained is whether, as ...

Italian investigators have requested Slovak police to forward biological evidence and tests on remains found at Matej Curko’s home MILAN – About thirty Italian women who disappeared between January ...

MILAN – The DIA police intelligence unit has served four warrants for pre-trial detention, issued by the Caltanissetta investigating magistrate, on four suspects in the new inquiry into the Via ...

ROME – More than 200 arrests have been made by the carabinieri ROS special operations group, in collaboration with America’s DEA (drug enforcement administration) and FBI, as part of a huge operation ...

Silvio Berlusconi has often maintained that the personal authority with which he is credited by other heads of government has given Italy an enhanced, and on occasion critical, impact on European and ...