Italy Politics News

Italians fed up with Silvio Berlusconi are rallying in Rome to peacefully push for the premier's resignation. Organizers are calling Saturday afternoon's grass-roots protest "No B Day" with the "B" standing for Berlusconi, the billionaire businessman and conservative leader now...

Italy — Tensions and cultural misunderstandings ran high on Saturday after an American college student was found guilty of murdering her British housemate. Rather than clarifying the saga of what prosecutors said was a drug-fueled orgy gone fatally awry, the...

Amanda Knox , a U.S. exchange student in Italy, and her Italian ex-boyfriend, were convicted Friday of killing her housemate. Knox, 22, was given a 26-year sentence, the Italian news agency Ansa reported...The families of Knox, Sollecito and the victim,...

A jailed Mafia hit-man linked Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to the Cosa Nostra on Friday, telling a court that a godfather convicted for a 1993 bombing campaign had boasted of his links to the media mogul. Berlusconi says biased courts...

Originally published Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 8:05 AM Italy: Mafia's No. Sicily The Italian interior minister says police in Palermo have captured the Cosa Nostra's No...The Italian interior minister says police in Palermo have captured the Cosa Nostra's No....

Tens of thousands of protesters gathered Saturday in Rome to express their exasperation with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi , who is currently on trial for corruption and who was politically bruised earlier this year by scandals involving younger women. Many...

What they found in four years of research was a mix of pine resin, oil common with oil painters at the time, and a red pigment that was also popular with painters including Titian.

Italy's culture ministry says it hopes the move will boost tourism to the site, state news agency Ansa reports. Among the ruins visible on the search engine's free mapping service are the town's statues, temples and theatres. The city was...

An Italian prosecutor brought a bra into court in the Meredith Kercher murder trial Thursday to explain why the DNA of defendant Raffaele Sollecito was only found on the clasp of Kercher's cut bra. Prosecutor Manuela Comodi draped the bra...