Last Updated: Saturday, October 5, 2013, 19:52
Food Minister K V Thomas is scheduled to make a presentation on the National Food Security Act at an FAO conference next week in Rome.
Last Updated: Saturday, October 5, 2013, 12:23
An Italian Senate committee on Friday recommended that former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi be expelled from parliament after his conviction for tax fraud, paving the way for a final decision this month that could seal his political fate.
Last Updated: Saturday, October 5, 2013, 11:19
Pope Francis Friday berated the nuns whose fixed smiles betray "a lack of joy that comes from within".
Last Updated: Friday, September 27, 2013, 12:46
Italy`s Senate president says nearly all the senators of Silvio Berlusconi`s party have vowed to resign if the former premier is ousted from Parliament for his tax fraud conviction.
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 12:50
AS Roma beat 10-man Lazio 2-0 in the Rome derby thanks to two second half goals in an Italian Serie A league match.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 17, 2013, 15:57
A former economy minister in Italy said he was suing a woman member of the new Vatican financial reform panel, who is also a journalist, over tweets she made claiming he is gay.
Last Updated: Saturday, July 6, 2013, 09:53
The Supreme Court of Cassation in Italy convicted a pensioner of "contempt for the nation" and fined him 1,000 euros after the man called Italy a "shit country".
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 25, 2013, 08:42
Former PM Silvio Berlusconi hit out at his conviction by a Milan court for paying for sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of office, insisting he was "utterly innocent" and accusing the judges of persecution.
Last Updated: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 12:25
Travel guide Lonely Planet has released its choices for the top European destinations for 2013 and nowhere in sight is Paris or Rome.
Last Updated: Saturday, June 22, 2013, 09:49
Police have arrested an 83-year-old disabled woman`s daughter and her partner after two dogs allegedly mauled the bed-ridden woman to death at her home in northern Italy.
Last Updated: Friday, June 21, 2013, 13:54
Local experience worldwide, cultural exchange and free stay are Couch Surfing features that have attracted several in the country.
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 21:03
A court in Rome Tuesday sentenced a young Romanian woman to four years in prison on attempted murder charges after she abandoned her newborn baby inside a toilet in a restaurant.
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