An investigation has been launched after the bodies of dozens of dogs, cats and rabbits were found dumped in an Italian lake. Officials suspect the dogs were bred for illegal fights, but other animals ...

Italy's main animal rights group has asked prosecutors to stop further screenings of Giuseppe Tornatore's film "Baaria" because it features the gruesome slaughtering of a bull. By Daniele Mari, ...

When 25-year-old veterinary student Caterina Simonsen posted an update on a Facebook page supporting the use of animals in medical research before Christmas, she was trying to say how lucky she felt ...

Brown bears living close to Italian villages have quietly rewritten the usual script of human–wildlife conflict. Over generations, these animals have become smaller, less aggressive and more tolerant ...

A jockey rides bareback around a makeshift race course set up in the central square of Siena, Italy in June 2011 for the Palio horse race. A series of historic Italian feasts involving animals ...

Residents in the prosperous Italian town of Reggio Emilia were outraged yesterday after its council adopted an animal rights bylaw that bans boiling live lobster as "useless torture". Supporters of ...

Animal rights groups have appealed to Pope Francis to end the practice of releasing doves from a Vatican window overlooking St. Peter's Square, a day after a pair of the peace symbols were attacked by ...

An Italian trade union's 'Hitler Prize' for the "person who has distinguished themselves in their work with animals" is a disturbing sign of "creeping Nazism" in the country, Italy's only female rabbi ...

ROME: A series of historic Italian feasts involving animals including the famous Palio horse race in Siena are being excluded from a new list of celebrations compiled by Italy's tourism ministry, ...