The Battle of Calabria, fought on July 9, 1940, was a key naval engagement between the British Mediterranean Fleet and the ...

The Battle of Cape Passero (1940) unfolded in the early hours of October 12, during World War II. British cruiser hms Ajax, ...

Italian actress and screenwriter Paola Cortellesi’s directorial feature debut There’s Still Tomorrow (C’è Ancora Domani) opened the 18th Rome Film Festival on Wednesday evening. Set in the lead up to ...

In 1940, the Suez Canal was the most important waterway in the world: a vital supplies shortcut for the Allies, and a coveted prize for the Italians. The Italian forces that landed in Africa had the ...

ON THIS DAY IN 1922, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The stage is set for the first serious attempt to salvage the fortune in jewels, bullion and express freight which went down on the Cunard ...

Oct. 26—Maria D'Alessandro is from East Orange, New Jersey, about an hour from New York City. She grew up expecting to see an Italian grocer or food store on about every corner. She found out that was ...

ROME - Italy's ex-royals are demanding damages - and the return of confiscated property, including the presidential palace - for being sent into exile after World War II. The Savoy dynasty, with a ...

The late 1940s exert the same romantic hold over today’s Italians as does our post-war era here. Both are viewed as challenging years that brought out each nation’s best traits. While the British ...

The Italian man, identified by lawyers in the case only as Antonio C, was rifling through an old chest of drawers when he made the discovery a few days before Christmas. Notwithstanding the time that ...

A 99-year-old Italian man is divorcing his wife of 77 years after he stumbled across letters she had written to a secret lover in the 1940s. The damning discovery days before Christmas led the galled ...