A senior Vatican priest, speaking before Pope Benedict XVI at a Good Friday service, compared the world’s outrage at sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church to the persecution of the Jews, prompting angry responses from victims’ advocates and...

A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at home, Italian media reported Thursday.

Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has come under fire after a TV channel he owns secretly filmed a judge who ruled against him in a bribery case. Mr Berlusconi’s Canale 5 channel aired footage of the judge taking a walk, smoking and visiting a barber...

It may sound like a plot line from the 1988 Hollywood comedy Married to the Mob, but the reality is chillingly different, with women gang leaders reputed to be as determined and ruthless as the men. Just as their male counterparts celebrate their...

Roman pub manager Leonardo Leuci has noticed an increasingly popular request from young people who step up to the bar to order a drink: “Make me something strong.” Leuci spent a decade working at watering holes abroad, from France to Florida...

Italians often minimize what afflicts them with this philosophy: Without the bad, no one would appreciate what is good. The question now on the table, almost literally, is whether their passion for food - and the money it makes - will finally force...