Italy's team manager Gianluigi Buffon, left, and head coach Gennaro Gattuso at the World Cup play-off draw on Thursday Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via The remaining 16 European teams still in with a chance of reaching next summer’s World Cup now know what they have to do to qualify,

By Emilio Parodi MILAN (Reuters) -Italian prosecutors have placed luxury group Tod's and three of its executives under investigation for suspected labour abuses and are seeking a temporary blanket ban on company advertising,

Italy is getting ready to end a long-standing routine in its egg industry: the killing of newborn male chicks. For decades, hatcheries have sorted chicks within hours of hatching, and millions of males have been discarded each year because they cannot lay eggs or grow efficiently for meat.

Italy is pushing to ban “Italian-sounding” foods abroad amid a scandal over the appearance of a Belgian-made carbonara sauce found on the shelves of a store in the European Parliament.

Italy manager Gennaro Gattuso has said that it is Federico Chiesa ’s “problem” that he turned down an international call-up. The Liverpool forward was revealed to have rejected Gattuso’s request for him to join the squad for the recent World Cup qualifying matches, where the Azzurri secured a place in the play-offs.

MILAN — Italy's border police said on Thursday (Nov 20) they had seized more than 42 tonnes of tomato puree falsely labelled as "Made in Italy", which had entered the country via Bulgaria.One of the world's leading tomato sauce producers,

Italian model and entrepreneur Pamela Genini had what many might consider an enviable life. Then, last month, she was fatally stabbed at her home, police say.