Italy's goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon (C) waves to supporters upon his team's arrival at the Marriot hotel in Montpellier. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFPBeaten 2012 finalists Italy were given a raucous welcome by fans at their Euro 2016 Montpellier base on Wednesday after arriving in the southe French city...

A phrasebook or traditional guidebook may equip you with enough knowledge to order food or track down the tourist hotspots, but in order to really get under the skin of Italy, the best place to start is reading novels by Italian authors. Elena Ferrante’s 'Neapolitan novels' - a series of four books ...

The cave where the bones were found. Photo: Egnoka/WikimediaExcursionists hiking up a mountain in the Lazio region were stunned last week after they came across the suspected skeleton of an ancient Roman child while exploring a cave. The bones were found inside a shattered Roman clay jar, or anfora,...

The fight broke out in a tent camp which houses seasonal workers on Rosa o, Calabria. This photo was taken in 2010, at a similar camp on the city. Photo: Carlo Hermann/AFPA policeman in Italy has shot dead a migrant who stabbed him during a brawl in an area renowned for tensions between immigrants, ...

Fiat has also signed a driverless car partnership with Google. Photo: Justin Sullivan/AFPItalo-American car giant Chrysler Fiat (FCA) is in talks with Uber Technologies over a possible driverless car partnership, after signing a similar agreement with Google, Bloomberg said on Wednesday. The agency ...

Some 204,000 migrants and refugees have made the crossing since January this year and more than 2,500 have died. Photo: Gabriel Buoys/AFPAn Eritrean man believed to be at the centre of the migrant smuggling ring has been extradited to Italy from Sudan Mered Medhanie, who is believed to have arranged...

The headquarters of the European Food Safety Authority in Parma. Photo: Paco Serenelli/AFPA parcel bomb was intercepted on Tuesday at the headquarters of the EU food safety watchdog's headquarters in northe Italy and was safely detonated by a bomb disposal team. Italy's Health Minister Beatrice Lore...

The hilltop town of Orvieto, Umbria. Photo: Stefano ConstantiniPerched on a cliff of red volcano rock, the Umbrian hilltop town of Orvieto is among Italy’s most enchanting. Toni DeBella, an American expat who's lucky to call it home, tells us why. With its rich history – it was an Etruscan stronghol...

Can you name these types of pasta? That's not spaghetti on the left... Photos: David Adam Hess, Edsel Little, Sreebot/Flickr&WikicommonsIn case you hadn’t noticed, Italians take pasta very seriously. There are dozens of varieties - it's much more than just spaghetti and fusili - and menus can be har...

Giampiero Ventura is set for a stint with the national side. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP AFP · 7 Jun 2016, 17:11 Published: 07 Jun 2016 17:11 GMT+02:00 Giampiero Ventura will take over as Italy coach after Euro 2016, Italian Football Federation president Carlo Tavecchio announced on Tuesday, Italian med...

Italy upped security in the wake of the Paris attacks last November. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPA woman who investigators say was convinced to convert to Islam by her Tunisian husband has been held in the northe Italian city of Brescia on suspicion of being an aspiring terrorist. The woman was rad...

An Italian education minister has proposed overtu ing a directive banning children from using smartphones in class. Photo: SummerSkyes11/FlickrSchool children could soon be spending their lessons glued to the screen of their smartphones after Italy's under-secretary of education pledged to overtu a ...

Italy's Court of Cassation ruled the teacher must be sacked for killing two rabbits in front of his class. Photo: Gabriel Buoys/AFPItaly’s top court has ruled that a professor who killed two rabbits as part of a biology lesson must be sacked. Professor Carlo Rando sparked outrage in 2010 when he bro...

Silvio Berlusconi had a heart operation in 2006. Photo: Gabriel Buoys/AFPItaly’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was admitted to hospital in Milan on Tuesday mo ing for a heart problem, according to Italian media reports. The condition is not life threatening but the Forza Italia leader will...

Italy has not entered any sites for this year's Unesco World Heritage allocations. Photo: Papapiper/Eduardo Bartocetti/Mikuzz/FlickrItaly has not put forward any candidates for the 2016 Unesco World Heritage shortlist. The reason? It already has too many beautiful sites. “A decision was made not to ...

Taxation and bureaucracy are the veritable banes of doing business in Italy. But the looming UK referendum on the EU is also worrying foreign entrepreneurs. Emma Cuthbertson speaks to six businesswomen to get more insight into the challenges faced. An ambiguous taxation system Photo: Christina Ayer ...

Italy's Federica Mogherini was ranked 19th in the Forbes "most powerful women list" of 2016. Photo: AFPItaly’s former Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini is among the world’s most powerful women, according to a ranking compiled by the magazine, Forbes. Mogherini, who became the EU’s high representat...

The Italian woman and Russian man were found dead on a yacht in Roses, Spain. Photo: Oanababy/FlickrPolice in Spain were investigating on Monday the deaths of a foreign couple whose bodies were found inside an Italian-flagged luxury yacht at the Mediterranean resort of Roses. The remains of the 28-y...

Italy's Five Star Movement (MS5) is now the country's second most popular political party. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPItaly's anti-establishment Five Star movement (M5S), riding high on a first round victory in Rome's mayoral race and the second biggest political force in the country, is a broad churc...

The Italian border town of Ventimiglia has seen more than 300 migrants arrive in the last week. Photo: Valerie Hache/AFPAuthorities in the Italian-France border town of Ventimiglia are struggling to find accommodation for migrants after a spike in arrivals over the last seven days. More than 300 peo...