The mayor of Venice today defended a scheme allowing Coca-Cola to install vending machines in the city.

Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi’s wife aired her dirty laundry for the whole country to see when she complained about her husband in a newspaper.

Protesters today disrupted work and damaged machinery at the construction site where massive flood barriers are being built to protect Venice from its notorious high tides, officials said.

Italians went to the polls for a second day of voting today in the southern region of Basilicata, where regional elections were delayed by two weeks because of a legal dispute over a party list.