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Juventus and Italy 'keeper Gianluigi Buffon reportedly sank €20 million of his own money into an Italian textiles company to save its workers from losing their jobs. Photo: Christina Quicler/AFP
Buffon blew €20 million in bid to save Italian jobs
Italy's World Cup-winning goalkeeper, Gianluigi Buffon, reportedly lost €20 million after investing in an Italian textiles company in order to save its workers from losing their jobs.
Milan's Lego tower. Photo: Lego
Nine record-breaking Italians of 2015
From breakdancing and baking to building towers out of lego, Italians have been smashing all sorts of world records this year. The Local looks back over some of our favourites.
A woman covers her face with her scarf to protect herself from the air pollution in Milan on Monday. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP
Italian cities to get €12 million to fight smog
A €12 million fund will be available immediately for city councils to spend on public transport and car-sharing in an effort to combat severely high smog levels, Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti said.
Italy kicks off 2016 with two public holidays in January. Photo: Paul Richards/Flickr
Italy's public holidays in 2016
The NYE party at Autogrill will not be going ahead. Photo: Kathie Sierra
NYE party at Autogrill prank lures thousands
It was meant to be a “sort of” joke by four friends, but an invitation to spend New Year’s Eve at the motorway diner, Autogrill, attracted almost 13,000 revellers, forcing the restaurant to disconnect its phone line after a surge in calls from people eager to get on the party list.
Record low tides in Venice are making life difficult for the city's boatmen. Photo: Chris Chabot
Record low tide dries Venice's famous canals
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will wrap up the year with a skiiing holiday in Cormayeur. Photo: Thierry Charlier/AFP
Politician sparks outrage over Isis 'joke' at Renzi
Local councils up and down Italy are banning traditional New Year's Eve firework displays. Photo: Colin Knowles / Flickr
Bah humbug! Italy bans New Year's Eve fireworks
Apple employees walk towards the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California. Photo: Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP
Apple to pay €318m in tax owed to Italy
UPDATED: US tech giant Apple has agreed to pay €318 million in tax owed to Italy’s inland revenue, wrapping up an investigation that got underway in 2013, according to a report in La Repubblica.
2015 yielded some fantastically strange news stories from Italy. Photo: Spyros Papaspyrupoulos/Flickr
Ten of Italy's 'stranger than fiction' 2015 stories
It's been a jam-packed year of news for Italy, with plenty of incredible offbeat stories making headlines at The Local. Here are of the strangest news stories from 2015.
Features
Nuoro, the Sardinian village with the best public order in Italy. Photo: fabulousfabs/Flickr
Five surprisingly great places to live in Italy
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It's surprisingly easy to take on new habits in Italy. Photo: Pierro Fissore/Flickr
Quirky Italian habits that won't work back home
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Italy's parched river Po in July this year. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP
How climate change will devastate Italy
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Interior Minister Angelino Alfano signed the deportation order after a report from Italy's Ros security police. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP
Man deported for saying he would 'blow up Rome'
Italian police with some of the recovered paintings. Photo: Polizia di Stato
Rome airport cleaners in pilfered artworks racket
Photo: LablaScovegMenu
Italy consumers to pay less for electricity in 2016
Five truly inspirational interviews from 2015
Wintry weather is set to bring snow to northern Italy. Photo: Luca Moglia/Flickr
Snow forecast as festive season ends
From our other editions
Tightened security is expected at Vienna's New Year celebrations. Photo: Paul Gillingwater
Security risk elevated in lead up to New Year
As a result of a tip from a so-called "friendly" intelligence service, police in Austria are increasing precautions against a potential terrorist attack somewhere in the country.
The Banque Cantonal du Valais is one of the latest banks to settle under the Swiss Bank Program. Photo: Banque Cantonal du Valais
Swiss bank tax evasion fines to US reach $1 bn
US officials have settlements with four more Swiss banks to lift the total fines in the two-year disclosure program to more than $1 billion from 75 banks.
The condom machine in Münster. Photo: DPA
Man dies after condom machine explosion
A young man from western Germany died in tragic circumstances on Christmas Eve after blowing up a condom machine with a homemade bomb.
Danish PM Lars Lokke Rasmussen appears on the TV2 channel. Photo: TV2/Screen Grab
Danish PM seeks change to UN asylum pact
Denmark's centre-right prime minister on Sunday said he would seek a revision of the UN Refugee Convention, as Europe faces its worst migration crisis since World War II.
Fire rages on the streets of Roquetas del Mar on Friday. Photo: YouTube screen gran
Migrants riot in Spanish beach town after African stabbed
African migrants rioted in a southern Spanish beach city on Friday, setting fire to garbage bins and cars, after a man from Guinea-Bissau was stabbed to death, local officials said.
Year in review: Italy's major stories in 2015
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Culture
Newly restored ruins lure thousands to Pompeii
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Five truly inspirational interviews from 2015
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Health
Italy's youth shun the Mediterranean diet
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National
Car clampdown as smog smothers Italy
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Society
Italy court OKs landmark gay adoption case
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National
Italy to fine smokers €300 for tossing cigarettes
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Culture
Italy's Bocelli busks Big Apple to help homeless
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Five surprisingly great places to live in Italy
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National
Italy town fights smog by 'banning' pizza making
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National
Granny mafia boss, 38, hooked for fish scam
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Business & Money
Tax dodgers cost Italy €122 billion in 2015
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Health
Italian gives birth to two sets of identical twins
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Culture
Quirky Italian habits that won't work back home
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National
Men shout 'God is Great' and grab soldiers' guns
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National
Ex-Ferrari boss vows to bring Olympics to Rome
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Boat migrant held over suspected Isis links
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Libya talks 'a turning point': Gentiloni
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National
Sunken haul of Roman fish sauce found off Italy
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Business & Money
Italy moves to bail out savers hit by bank plan
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National
Man kills himself as bank failure wipes out savings
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How to figure out healthcare abroad
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National
Italy: thank us for refugee help - don't sue
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Business & Money
The startup looking to revamp banking in Italy
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