The man died after attempting a wingsuit jump from the Aiguille du Midi peak on Mont Blanc. Photo: Laurent GlassonAn Italian man was found dead on Sunday on Mont Blanc in the French Alps after attempting a wingsuit jump, one of the most dangerous extreme sports, mountain rescue services said. The 33...

Authorities said 1,348 migrants were picked up on Saturday and 1,230 on Sunday. Photo: Gabriel Buoys/AFPMore than 2,500 migrants seeking to reach Europe were rescued off the coast of Sicily over the weekend in 20 separate operations, the Italian coastguard said on Sunday. Vessels from the Italian na...

Three people died after a building partially collapsed in Milan due to an explosion. Photo: Luca ParioliThree people died and nine were injured after a building partially collapsed in Milan on Sunday in an explosion that is believed to have been caused by a gas leak. The incident happened in a resid...

An Italian fan nervously watches the 2012 Euro Cup final in Rome. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFPAs Italy prepares to face Belgium on Monday night as part of the bumper 24-team edition of the Uefa European Championships, we look back at the country's history in the competition. In the competition's 56-yea...

The pope also issued an appeal to remove the causes of mode slavery. Photo: AFPPope Francis, addressing an audience of 20,000 sick and handicapped people at the Vatican on Sunday, decried the marginalisation of those with disabilities, pointing to the way body image has become big business and "anyt...

Pakistan´s Karakoram range is a magnet for mountaineers. Photo: Rhea Preston via FlickrAn Italian mountaineer died during a skiing accident in Gilgit-Baltistan region as he attempted to descend a 6,000-metre (19,685-foot) peak, the Alpine Club of Pakistan said Saturday. "Leonardo Comelli, 27, an Ita...

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi quickly denounced the initiative on Twitter. Photo: AFPA rightwing Italian newspaper, owned by Silvio Berlusconi's brother, was today giving away free copies of Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic manifesto Mein Kampf in a move which sparked both shock and condemnation. “...

(L) An image of Medhanie Hedego Mered previously issued by the NCA and the one, claiming to be him, released by the Italian police on Wednesday. AFP · 10 Jun 2016, 14:42 Published: 10 Jun 2016 14:42 GMT+02:00 An Eritrean man extradited to Italy on suspicion of being the head of a migrant trafficking...

Italy's Court of Cassation ruled the comments did not constitute defamation or racial hatred. Photo: Davide Blaikie/FlickrItaly's top court has cleared a photographer of defamation and racial hatred charges after he called the inhabitants of the Veneto region "a population of drunks". Olivero Toscan...

Actor Richard Gere visited a Rome homeless shelter on Thursday. Photo: Sant'Egidio CommunityActor Richard Gere spoke out about the plight of homeless people during a visit to a shelter in Rome on Thursday, telling a press conference that “human connections” heal people, and not “money or politics”. ...

The pair had just dropped 16 migrants at a beach in Calabria. Photo: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFPItalian police Friday said they had arrested two Ukrainian nationals on suspicion of smuggling 16 Syrian refugees into the country by yacht from Turkey. The Ukrainians, who were not identified, were intercepted a...

Over 48,000 migrants are estimated to have arrived in Italy since the start of the year. Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFPAround 2,000 migrants were plucked to safety off the coast of Libya in the latest series of rescue operations in the Mediterranean on Thursday, the Italian coastguard said. "The coastguar...

A car that is believed to have belonged to a man named on the UK’s terror watch list was found abandoned at Rome’s Fiumicino airport. The British-number plated yellow Seat Alhambra had been in the airport’s long-stay carpark for over a year before suspicions were aroused. Police found nothing suspic...

Silvio Berlusconi was hospitalized earlier this week. Photo: Gabriel Buoys/AFPControversial former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, 79, will undergo heart surgery to replace an aortic valve after suffering an attack his doctor said could have killed him. "He arrived at the hospital in a sev...

A photo of migrant workers taken in Rosa o, Calabria, in 2010. Photo: Carlo Hermann/AFPAn estimated 400 foreign seasonal workers gathered in front of the town hall of San Ferdinando, Calabria, on Thursday to protest the killing of a colleague by a police officer. Tensions between local residents and...

Italian police claim the man in the pictured is Medhanie Yehdego Mered, a wanted people smuggler. Photo: Polizia di StatoItalian investigators are looking into reports that authorities may have arrested the wrong man as part of a major people-smuggling probe. Police said Medhanie Yehdego Mered, thou...

San Sossio Baronia mayor, Francesco Garofalo. Photo: FacebookAn Italian mayor has taken the unusual step of trying to sell his cash-strapped town on Facebook in order to boost its dwindling coffers. Francesco Garofalo has been in charge of San Sossio Baronia, Campania, for seven years and on Monday ...

The worst affected region is Puglia in southe Italy where it is estimated some 10 percent of its 11 million olive trees could be cut down. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFPThe EU's top court ruled on Thursday the European Commission can order member states to cut down thousands of olive trees infected by dead...

The strait of Messina. Photo: Soren Hugger MollerItaly has never realized its 2000 year-old dream of linking Sicily with the mainland, but a team of architects and engineers might have found the answer: a giant cable car. The 3.3 kilometre-wide strait of Messina has separated Sicily from Calabria si...

The former Jewish ghetto on the banks of the Tiber in central Rome. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPThe Italian gove ment has approved a law punishing incitement to racial hatred, including denying the Holocaust and crimes against humanity, with prison sentences of between two and six years. The bill was ...