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Even if the 92.63% of tax evasion discovered is not drawn, last year, the takings from tax evasion were roughly 3.46 billion euros, with an improvement in tax collection by 71 per cent from 2006 and by 272 per ...

Rastafarians have always regarded Ethiopia as the promised land, but Italy could rank a close second after its Supreme Court ruled that smoking or possessing cannabis is not a criminal offence but a religious ...

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian court has ruled the government must pay 100,000 euros ($157,700) in damages to a man who was told to retake a driving test because he was homosexual.

When 26 year-old Danilo Giuffrida told doctors he was gay at his medical examination for military service, they passed the information to the transport ministry, who told him he must repeat his driving test or have his license withdrawn due to his "sexual identity disturbance."

Giuffrida agreed to re-take his test, passed it for a second time, but the ministry renewed his license for just one year rather than the usual 10 years because of his homosexuality.

By Subhash K. Jha, Mumbai, July 10: The Italians, past masters at staging and appreciating operas, gave Bollywood filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Padmavati" a standing ovation when it was staged in Spoleto, ...

An embarrassed White House apologized on Tuesday for an "unfortunate mistake" -- the distribution of less-than-flattering biography of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi at the Group of Eight summit.

Jennifer Lopez attends the press conference where Marc Anthony received the Honorary Award from Milan Town Council held at Palazzo Marino on July 01, 2008 in Milan, Italy.

Seems the President of the USA George W. Bush made a remark that may go down in history as the most foolish goof ups made by a leader.

An executive with one of Canada's major modelling agencies questions whether the agency representing murdered model Diana O'Brien did due diligence before sending her to work in Shanghai.

Inspector Giorgio Capovani laid out his array of cheese impostors.

A wedge of 'Parmesansan' made in Lithuania, a container of 'Parmazano Fiorentino' produced in Britain and labeled 'dairy free,' a chunk of German 'Parmezano' sold in Mexico.

The motley assortment of long-expired cheese products he keeps in a refrigerator is proof that rip-offs know no borders nor limits to the imagination. And it's not just cheese. Hams too can be suspect. And basil. And vinegar.

Capovani, whose rotund belly could rival a huge wheel of the cheese officially titled Parmigiano-Reggiano, belongs to a growing breed of food detectives sought out by producers of Italian foods that have earned prestigious European Union protection.

Pope Benedict XVI waves before embarking on a flight to Australia for a 10-day pilgrimage, in Rome's Fiumicino airport, Saturday July 12, 2008.

The Italian government knew it was courting criticism when it began fingerprinting and rounding up the oft-targeted minority known also as Roma.

It involves a former topless model and the Italian prime minister, and has all the makings of a risque joke.

This may be the only city on Earth where the nation's prime minister was forced to send a well-armed military regiment to guard the garbage dump.

A proposed law that would leave Italy's four most senior officials, including premier and Mediaset owner Silvio Berlusconi, immune from prosecution came a step closer late Thursday.