Men living in the northwestern Italian town of Varallo will receive 50 euros ($70) for losing 4 kg (9 pounds) in a month, Mayor Gianluca Buonanno said. Women will get the same amount for shedding 3 kg (7 pounds). picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

An elderly Italian woman is spending thousands of dollars a month feeding 120 stray cats in Milan. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

An Italian man was given a suspended jail sentence for staring too intensely at a woman sitting in front of him on a train. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

An Italian woman whose family kept her locked in a room for almost two decades after she was accused of becoming pregnant out of wedlock has been freed by police, authorities and media reports said. picked by aclister 1 year ago

A leaked Italian government report concludes "aliens testing secret weapons" are responsible for a series of strange, spontaneous fires that erupted from appliances and other home furnishings all over the village of Canneto di Caronia three years ago. picked by Proverb 2 years ago

The local government in Treviso has ordered the northern Italian city's Chinese restaurants to remove red lanterns from their windows because they look too "oriental". picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

One of two Italian women slain on a Cape Verde resort island in a brutal attack might have been alive when she was buried by her killers. picked by Browntrout 3 years ago

A group of artists called Gelatin have knitted a huge pink rabbit and left it lying on a hill in Italy.

The bunny is SO BIG that it can even be seen using satellite photos from space. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

AN Italian thief thanked police officers for arresting him and putting an end to a beating from Korean tourists whom he had robbed in Rome, police say. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Gaddafi, who has a women-only corps of bodyguards, held a similar meeting on a visit to Paris in 2007 with 1,000 selected women guests, who were told he wanted to "save European women." picked by kakana 6 months ago

Primo Michele Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, and novels. He is best known for his work on the Holocaust, and in particular his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz, the infamous death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. If This Is a Man (published in the United States as Survi... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

British orphans adopted by Italian aristocracy are fighting for a £1bn inheritance.

Should it be the four daughters of the staunchly Catholic sister? Or the two children conceived by her gay brother with the help of a surrogate mother? picked by ruthstark 1 month ago

Italian cycling fans believe making doping legal is the best way to save their troubled sport. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A gay Italian man wants to become a nun and is going to undergo a sex change op to facilitate it. picked by pocksucket 9 months ago

A terminally ill Italian woman awoke from a coma so she could fulfill her last wish of marrying her partner before she died. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

AN Italian deputy from the anti-immigration Northern League party has sparked controversy after he said public transport seats in his constituency of Milan should be reserved for Italians only. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

In 1971, biologists moved five adult pairs of Italian wall lizards from their home island of Pod Kopiste, in the South Adriatic Sea, to the neighboring island of Pod Mrcaru. Now, an international team of researchers has shown that introducing these small, green-backed lizards, Podarcis sicula, to a new environment caused them to undergo rapid and large-scale evolutionary changes. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

The head of one of Venice's most prestigious museums apologized on Wednesday to a Muslim woman asked to leave the building by a guard because she was wearing a veil over her face. picked by MeMe 1 year ago

Italian soldiers are facing the embarrassment of being beaten up daily by a 77-year-old Japanese grandmother.

I love this story. I wish my gran could kick ass like this picked by doggylives 1 year ago

It would take one very large fig leaf to restore modesty to Milan's main park after the installation of a 70-foot floating sculpture of a naked man. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago