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Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI SANT'AGATA BOLOGNESE, Italy -- It is named after the primitive wild cattle from which today's beasts of the field are descended, but what the new Urus sport [...]

FLORENCE, Italy -- The black-and-white checkered floor of the taxi looks a bit like home flooring. The seats are yellow, purple and orange leather, while the pea-green interiors are plastered [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI FLORENCE, Italy -- The black-and-white checkered floor of the taxi looks a bit like home flooring. The seats are yellow, purple and orange leather, while the pea-green [...]

ROME -- Pope Francis is ending one of the less healthful perks of life in the Vatican: cheap cigarettes. Selling discounted tobacco to employees and pensioners, without the increasingly stringent [...]

ROME -- The bodies of 26 young Nigerian women and girls were retrieved from the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend and taken to Italy, where officials said on Tuesday they [...]

An Italian dog owner who wanted paid time off to care for one of her dogs offered her bosses a simple explanation: ''They are my family.'' It worked. In what [...]

Byline: MEGAN SPECIA and GAIA PIANIGIANI An Italian dog owner who wanted paid time off to care for one of her dogs offered her bosses a simple explanation: 'They are [...]

MONTICCHIELLO, Italy -- This walled village of just 200 residents perched in the hills south of Siena has always been a little isolated and, perhaps, a little conflicted about it. [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI MONTICCHIELLO, Italy -- This walled village of just 200 residents perched in the hills south of Siena has always been a little isolated and, perhaps, a little [...]

ROME -- At 42, Pope Francis had weekly sessions with a psychoanalyst for about six months ''to clarify some things,'' according to excerpts from a new book by a French [...]

PISTOIA, Italy -- As Europe's era of easy money slowly draws to a close, the talk in Frankfurt and London is of bond yields, exchange rates and core inflation. In [...]

Byline: JACK EWING and GAIA PIANIGIANI PISTOIA, Italy -- As Europe's era of easy money slowly draws to a close, the talk in Frankfurt and London is of bond yields, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDISOLA DI CAPO RIZZUTO, Italy -- The government provided millions of euros to care for the migrants who had arrived at the reception center at Italy's toe after traveling [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI ISOLA DI CAPO RIZZUTO, Italy -- The government provided millions of euros to care for the migrants who had arrived at the reception center at Italy's toe [...]

VERNAZZA, Italy -- The teenagers panted heavily as they climbed up the steep slope in the early morning, the Mediterranean sun glittering on the sea far below. Along the way, [...]

FRANKFURT -- Some banks go to the international markets when they need money for a big deal. Monte dei Paschi di Siena, one of Italy's biggest lenders, tapped its own [...]

Byline: JACK EWING, GAIA PIANIGIANI and CHAD BRAY FRANKFURT -- Some banks go to the international markets when they need money for a big deal. Monte dei Paschi di Siena, [...]

The Italian police are looking for a Tunisian man suspected of having terrorist ties who entered the country on Wednesday, traveling in a car with German license plates, according to [...]

AVOLA, Sicily -- It was a far cry from the rotting fishing boats and overstuffed dinghies that carry so many thousands of migrants precariously to Italian shores. The family of [...]

AVOLA, Sicily -- It was a far cry from the rotting fishing boats and overstuffed dinghies that carry so many thousands of migrants precariously to Italian shores. The family of [...]

SAN GIORGIO IONICO, Italy -- Her husband can still recall how Paola Clemente used to set two alarms to make sure she woke in the middle of the night -- [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI SAN GIORGIO IONICO, Italy -- Her husband can still recall how Paola Clemente used to set two alarms to make sure she woke in the middle of [...]

ROME -- On the eve of celebrations commemorating the 60th anniversary of treaties that led to the creation of the European Union, Pope Francis warned the bloc's leaders on Friday [...]

ROME -- It has not been an easy nine months for Virginia Raggi since she was elected Rome's first female mayor on the promise of cleaning up city hall and [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI ROME -- It has not been an easy nine months for Virginia Raggi since she was elected Rome's first female mayor on the promise of cleaning up [...]

ROME -- A high-profile member of a commission advising Pope Francis on ways to protect minors from sexual abuse by the clergy resigned from the panel on Wednesday, citing what [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe ceremony aboard an Italian Navy ship in the port of Valletta, Malta, had all the trappings of a European Union affair. But the ''cadets'' being awarded certificates on [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI and DECLAN WALSH Correction Appended The ceremony aboard an Italian Navy ship in the port of Valletta, Malta, had all the trappings of a European Union affair. [...]

REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy -- Fighting the mafia at the very toe of Italy, Roberto Di Bella has seen a lot: children as young as 11 or 12 serving as lookouts [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy -- Fighting the mafia at the very toe of Italy, Roberto Di Bella has seen a lot: children as young as 11 or 12 [...]

ROME -- Rescue workers on Saturday pulled three more bodies from the rubble and snow that covered an isolated hotel in the Apennine Mountains in central Italy when it was [...]

ROME -- It could have made an entertaining spy movie, if it wasn't disturbingly real: The Italian police say a brother and sister for years hacked into the phones and [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDLECCE, Italy -- One of his first students was a young man he had arrested four years earlier. Others have been convicted of armed robbery, drug trafficking and criminal [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI LECCE, Italy -- One of his first students was a young man he had arrested four years earlier. Others have been convicted of armed robbery, drug trafficking [...]

SESTO SAN GIOVANNI, Italy -- It was a routine identity check, the kind Italy has relied on to stem the flow of illegal migration deeper into Europe. But the man [...]

The terrorist attack on a Christmas market in Berlin on Monday evening killed 12 people and wounded at least 48 others, many of them gravely. At least half of the [...]

ROME -- A court in Florence on Thursday convicted a Senegalese migrant of murdering an American woman who was strangled and beaten in her Florence apartment early this year. The [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBERLIN -- He left Tunisia, his family said, with dreams of making money and buying a car. After arriving in Italy, he was a violent inmate who spent time [...]

BERLIN -- Anis Amri, a Tunisian man who turned 24 on Thursday, is the chief suspect in a Europe-wide investigation into Germany's worst terrorist attack in decades. His fingerprints and [...]

ROME -- A Tunisian captain who was piloting a fishing vessel crammed with migrants that collided with another ship, resulting in the deaths of about 700 people traveling to Italy [...]

ROME -- Italy's foreign minister, Paolo Gentiloni, accepted a presidential mandate on Sunday to try to form a new government, hoping to lead Italy out of a political crisis that [...]

SOVERIA MANNELLI, Italy -- Mario Caligiuri can still recall the night that may be credited with changing the fortunes of Soveria Mannelli. It was New Year's Eve at the turn [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI SOVERIA MANNELLI, Italy -- Mario Caligiuri can still recall the night that may be credited with changing the fortunes of Soveria Mannelli. It was New Year's Eve [...]

ROME -- Italians voted in record numbers on Sunday to reject a series of proposed changes to the Constitution. Proponents of the changes, including Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, said they [...]

Lapo Elkann, an Italian fashion designer and scion of one of Italy's largest industrial dynasties, was arrested in Manhattan on Sunday on suspicion of making a false police report. Shares [...]

FLORENCE, Italy -- It was what Tuscans simply refer to as ''l'alluvione,'' or the flood, because most everyone here who is old enough remembers the morning, 50 years ago this [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI FLORENCE, Italy -- It was what Tuscans simply refer to as 'l'alluvione,' or the flood, because most everyone here who is old enough remembers the morning, 50 [...]

VATICAN CITY -- Ashes to ashes is fine, the Vatican says, as long as you don't spread them around. On Tuesday, the Vatican responded to what it called an ''unstoppable [...]

Byline: ELISABETTA POVOLEDO and GAIA PIANIGIANI VATICAN CITY -- Ashes to ashes is fine, the Vatican says, as long as you don't spread them around. On Tuesday, the Vatican responded [...]

Byline: GAIA PIANIGIANI Say you're shopping at a farmer's market in Rome, and you'd like to pick up some nice, ripe watermelon. The signs at some stands call it 'anguria'; [...]