https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Italian former Olympic swimming champion Federica Pellegrini accidentally left her address and mobile phone number for all to see when she posted a photograph on Twitter on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160304/pellegrini-publishes-phone-number-in-twitter-gaffe Fri, 04 Mar 2016 18:44:03 +0100 pellegrini-publishes-phone-number-in-twitter-gaffe A 69-year-old barber has claimed he was told to pay a copyright fee for playing music in public after his mobile phone, which uses a ringtone of a 1975 disco classic by Donna Summer, rang. https://www.thelocal.it/20160226/italian-man-sanctioned-for-breach-of-copyright-over-ringtone Fri, 26 Feb 2016 12:12:27 +0100 italian-man-sanctioned-for-breach-of-copyright-over-ringtone Speaking on the phone while driving is perfectly acceptable if the call is an important one, a court in Perugia has ruled. https://www.thelocal.it/20151102/no-fine-for-urgent-call-while-driving-italy-court Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:08:53 +0100 no-fine-for-urgent-call-while-driving-italy-court An 24-year-old from Puglia has been jailed for two years and two months for robbery, after he snatched his ex-girlfriend’s phone from her to read her text messages. https://www.thelocal.it/20150320/man-jailed-for-grabbing-girlfriends-phone-to-read-texts Fri, 20 Mar 2015 11:12:45 +0100 man-jailed-for-grabbing-girlfriends-phone-to-read-texts Using your mobile phone outside of Italy just got cheaper, with charges for internet use more than halved, as the EU capped roaming charges from Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140701/eu-roaming-charges-more-than-halved Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:00:00 +0200 eu-roaming-charges-more-than-halved Pope Francis's habit of picking up the phone and cold calling people who write to him is landing the Vatican in hot water and spokesman Federico Lombardi has had enough. https://www.thelocal.it/20140424/pope-in-trouble-over-personal-phone-calls Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:54:00 +0200 pope-in-trouble-over-personal-phone-calls NSA, the US intelligence agency, tapped 46 million phone calls in Italy, according to a report on Cryptome, a Wikileaks-style website that provides information on spying and surveillance. https://www.thelocal.it/20131028/nsa-spied-on-46m-calls-in-italy Mon, 28 Oct 2013 11:27:00 +0100 nsa-spied-on-46m-calls-in-italy Staff at Milan’s luxury phone shop Vertu stopped a ten-year-old in an Inter Milan football shirt stealing a handset worth €7,900, local media reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20130821/mini-thief-takes-swipe-at-8000-phone Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:01:00 +0200 mini-thief-takes-swipe-at-8000-phone