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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

New calendars at the ready! With 2015 drawing to an end, those working in Italy will be eagerly checking next year's dates to see when the public holidays fall.

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

Record low water levels in Venice are making life difficult for the city's boatmen and exposing years of neglect of the city's 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

The leader of the Forza Italia party in the northern Aosta Valley region has sparked controversy after making an Isis-related dig against Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on his Facebook page.

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

They may be a millennia-old and time-honoured tradition, but cities and towns across Italy are introducing measures to ban or limit customary New Year's Eve firework displays.

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.

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Nuoro, the Sardinian village with the best public order in Italy. Photo: fabulousfabs/Flickr

Five surprisingly great places to live in Italy

In Monday's report on quality of life across Italy, there were a few surprises. The Local looks at the cities where you never knew life could be so sweet.

Photo: Katherine Lim/Flickr

This is where you'll find the best food in Italy

The Michelin Guide for Italy 2016 has been released, awarding 334 Italian eateries a coveted star rating. And the best city to eat in Italy might surprise you...

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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

Some Italian habits are easy to acquire, difficult to lose and likely to annoy your friends and family if you take them 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

As world leaders meet in Paris in an effort to stop man-made climate change reaching the point of no return, The Local looks at ways it is already affecting Italy and what the country can expect if it continues unabated.

What's on in December

Photo: George Rex

Ten things to do in Italy in December

If you're short of ideas for what to do in Italy in December, we've gathered a list of ten events that are well worth checking out, especially now that the Christmas season is almost upon us.

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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'

A Moroccan man was expelled from Italy on Tuesday after saying he was planning to "blow up Rome".

Italian police with some of the recovered paintings. Photo: Polizia di Stato

Rome airport cleaners in pilfered artworks racket

Police have dismantled an elaborate network of thieves at Rome’s Fiumicino airport, including cleaners, ground crew and passenger assistants, who were behind the theft of valuable paintings from passengers in transit.

Photo: LablaScovegMenu

Italy consumers to pay less for electricity in 2016

As we head towards 2016, Italy’s national energy authority has given the population some good news - gas and electricity bills are set to fall.

Five truly inspirational interviews from 2015

An Afghan refugee, a student-turned-millionaire and a dare-devil are among the most inspirational people interviewed by The Local this year.

Wintry weather is set to bring snow to northern Italy. Photo: Luca Moglia/Flickr

Snow forecast as festive season ends

It may have been an unusually mild winter so far, but meteorologists are predicting wintry weather will arrive on Thursday, with icy air set to send the mercury plunging and bringing snow to northern Italy.

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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.

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