Sardinian arms traffickers busted Italian police on Tuesday seized a shipment of assault rifles heading from the Italian mainland to criminal gangs in Sardinia.

Sardinian kidnap victim found dead The wife of a prominent Sardinian dentist who was believed to have been kidnapped Wedensday evening was discovered Thursday morning, murdered in the trunk of her car.

Italian hope for chocoholics New drug should cut cravings, researchers say - Italian researchers have come up with hope for the world's chocoholics.

Italians find baldness gene Italian scientists in Sardinia have identified one of the genes responsible for male-pattern baldness.

Italy's oldest woman has died at the age of 109 in central Sardinia, an area being studied for its remarkable longevity rates.

Raffaella Monni lived and worked all her life in the central Sardinian uplands, starting as a farm-hand at the age of 10.

An ancient Phoenician colony on the western coast of Sardinia may soon yield some of its long-buried secrets during new excavations.

A Sardinian tax regime which has left millionaires and yacht-owners groaning fell foul of the government on Friday.

The centre-left administration contested the so-called 'luxury taxes' levied on affluent visitors to the island, saying it had filed a suit with the Constitutional Court.

Three people including a British tourist were killed when a goods train hit a passenger train on the island of Sardinia on Friday - Italy's sixth fatal train crash since January 2005.

Cormorants in Sardinia are gobbling up fish at an unsustainable rate, threatening the local economy and depleting fish stock, according to a national fishing association.

A remarkable exhibition in Sardinia gives visitors the chance to encounter the civilizations that dominated South America before it was colonized by Europeans.

The show is on at the Museo del Territorio, near the south-western town of Villanovaforru.