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The historic Biblioteca Ambrosiana on Tuesday unveiled 280 drawings by such masters as Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci collected by a 17th-century friar that have just returned from a Florence studio where they were restored for years.
The trial of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on a tax fraud charge reopened Monday after a year, but was immediately adjourned until January to allow the premier to attend.
A dozen gondolas snaked down the Grand Canal on Saturday in a mock funeral procession bemoaning Venice's approach to the dreaded status of living museum, with a population now below 60,000.
Italy's top security official said Thursday that authorities have smashed an international terror cell with the arrest in Italy and elsewhere in Europe of 17 Algerians who were raising money to finance terrorism.
Lawyers for two high-ranking former CIA operatives in Italy charged in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric argued on Wednesday that their clients should be granted diplomatic immunity.
An Italian prosecutor in the first trial anywhere scrutinizing the CIA's extraordinary renditions asked a Milan court on Wednesday to sentence 26 Americans to jail terms ranging from 10 to 13 years for the abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect.
Crystal-studded boots that Michael Jackson intended to wear on his planned comeback tour fetched euro10,000 ($14,650) at a celebrity fundraiser chaired by his sister, Janet.
The entirety of Leonardo da Vinci's 1,119-page Atlantic Codex is going on public display for the first time, in a series of 24 exhibits spanning six years.
Matt Damon plays a pathological liar in Steven Soderbergh's "The Informant!" — the true-life story of an agribusiness executive who blows the whistle on his company's price fixing schemes with international competitors.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez received a movie star welcome at the Venice Film Festival, where he walked the red carpet with director Oliver Stone for the premiere of the documentary "South of the Border."
The Venice Film Festival's red carpet was festooned with balloons on Sunday to mark the lifetime achievement award for director and producer John Lasseter and his crew of Pixar directors.
Michael Moore says his film "Capitalism: A Love Story" is dedicated to "good people ... who've had their lives ruined" by the quest for profit.
Hong Kong director Soi Cheang's urban thriller "Accident" was two years in the making. The director spent much of that time plotting murders that go undetected as accidents.
For four decades, no Werner Herzog film ever was accepted for competition at the Venice Film Festival. This year, there are two.
German director Werner Herzog says his "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," starring Nicolas Cage as a drug-addicted homicide detective and Eva Mendes as his prostitute girlfriend, has nothing to do with Abel Ferrara's 1992 cult classic starring Harvey Keitel. He hasn't even seen it.
Hong Kong-based director Yonfan's "Prince of Tears" premieres Friday at the Venice Film Festival 20 years to the hour after Golden Lion-winner "City of Sadness," the last major film to confront a painful period of Taiwanese history known as the White Terror.
Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee play father and son on a harrowing and hopeless journey in the film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's devastating novel "The Road," premiering Thursday at the Venice Film Festival.
Todd Solondz assembles the same characters from 1998's "Happiness" but an entirely different cast for his latest film "Life During Wartime," premiering Thursday at the Venice Film Festival.
Giuseppe Tornatore's heartfelt tribute to his Sicilian hometown, "Baaria," could be about anyone's hometown, as long as it's the center of their universe, the director says.
Italy's state broadcaster RAI has refused to air ads promoting "Videocracy," a Swedish documentary examining the influence of television on Italian culture over the last 30 years, because it says the spots are an offense to Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
All that is golden in bank Credito Emiliano's temperature-controlled vault is not precious metal, but something equally prized in Italy: aging Parmesan cheese.
Tullio Kezich, a prominent film critic for the daily Corriere della Sera who befriended and collaborated with Italian directing greats Federico Fellini and Ermanno Olmi, died Monday. He was 80.
Eni SpA, Italy's largest natural gas and oil company, on Friday reported a 76 percent drop in second-quarter earnings, driven by lower gas and oil prices amid the recession.
Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said Wednesday that the Italian automaker has begun transferring small-car and fuel-efficient engine technology to Chrysler, which should show results by the end of next year.
Italian automaker Fiat on Wednesday reported its second straight quarterly loss on slumping sales of trucks and farm equipment, while its strong small-car lineup helped stanch the losses thanks to European incentives to scrap old cars and buy new, more environmentally friendly ones.
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