The Local Italy 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 Barbania, the tiny Italian town with 37 sets of twins Barbania, a tiny town in the north-west of Italy, might just have the highest rate of twin births anywhere in the country: 74 of its 1,600 inhabitants are twins. https://www.thelocal.it/20180626/barbania-italian-town-twins Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:52:11 +0200 barbania-italian-town-twins Italian gives birth to two sets of identical twins In the first case of its kind in Italy, and possibly Europe, a woman has given birth to two sets of identical twins. https://www.thelocal.it/20151216/woman-gives-birth-to-two-sets-of-identical-twins Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:38:28 +0100 woman-gives-birth-to-two-sets-of-identical-twins Embryo mix-up: twins must stay with birth mum A court in Rome has rejected a custody suit brought about by the biological parents at the centre of an embryo mix-up controversy. https://www.thelocal.it/20140811/embryo-mix-up-twins-must-stay-with-birth-mother Mon, 11 Aug 2014 12:47:00 +0200 embryo-mix-up-twins-must-stay-with-birth-mother Parents face battle as mix-up twins born The twins at the centre of an embryo mix-up controversy have been born, as a custody battle gets underway. https://www.thelocal.it/20140808/embryo-mix-up-twins-born-as-custody-battle-begins Fri, 08 Aug 2014 11:44:00 +0200 embryo-mix-up-twins-born-as-custody-battle-begins