
A Bologna couple who returned from a honeymoon in New York at the weekend were confirmed Thursday as Italy's latest sufferers from the A/H1N1 flu virus.

Police still have no leads on the whereabouts of a 69-year-old retired broker who was kidnapped Monday morning by three men.

Italian researchers have created a genetically modified virus they say holds out hope of more effective treatment for the most aggressive forms of breast cancer.

We catch up with award winning celebrity chef Todd English, who filmed "Slow Food, Fast Cars"..

Bologna is hosting a 10-day celebration of diversity and dignity with a film and arts festival devoted to human rights.

Italy is to get its first gaming museum, with a vast collection of artifacts tracing the dizzying development of videogames from their ancestors in the 1950s through to the latest arrivals on the market.

Dozens of paintings and drawings by Bologna's most famous modern artist, Giorgio Morandi, returned to the Italian city this week as part of a major retrospective devoted to his life and work.

Italian archaeologists are helping unearth the ancient capital of the Persian Empire, Persepolis.

Italian tenor Gianni Raimondi has died, La Scala said Wednesday.
La Scala called Raimondi, who accompanied Maria Callas more than any other tenor, ''one of the greatest voices in our history''.

Bologna Mayor Sergio Cofferati, once tipped to be the leader of Italy's main centre-left party, has said he won't seek a second term next year.