Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi have much in common: Photos: Ethan Miller/AFP (L) and Tiziana Fabi/AFP (R)With their perma-tans, riches and love of women, Donald Trump and Italy’s three-time prime minister Silvio Berlusconi are strikingly similar. So much so, Trump, who last week clinched the num...

A new director is wanted for the Roman ruins at Ostia Antica, among other sites. Photo: Sergio e Gabriella trentanni/FlickrItaly's Culture Ministry has put out an inte ational call for applicants in a bid to find nine new directors for some of the country's under-performing cultural treasures. The l...

Prosecutors in Rome have opened a murder investigation. Photo: The LocalThe ex-boyfriend of a student from Rome whose bu t body was found in the early hours of Sunday mo ing has been detained by police for questioning over possible femicide. The body of 22-year-old Sara Di Pietrantonio, an economics...

The migrant died after diving into Lake Sirio in Piedmont. Photo: Ilaria CoradazziA 24-year-old from the Ivory Coast who survived a shipwreck in the Mediterranean has drowned in a lake in northe Italy, according to Italian media reports. Lesine Sanune was living at a hotel-tu ed-migrant-centre near ...

Dozens more migrants are reported missing after a fishing boat sank on Friday. Photo: AFPDozens of migrants were missing after an overloaded fishing boat sank off the coast of Libya on Friday, the latest tragic accident in the Mediterranean this week, Italian rescuers said. Italian coastgard sent in...

It is the fourth time the final of Europe’s premier club event will to be held at the San Siro. Photo: AFPMilan’s San Siro stadium is preparing for a glitzy all-Spanish final of the Champions League final on Saturday, as fans of Real and Atletico Madrid packed the city in glorious summer sunshine. R...

A migrant boat capsizing last week. Photo: Courtesy of Marina MilitareA week of shipwrecks and death in the Mediterranean culminated Sunday with harrowing testimony from migrant survivors who said another 500 people including 40 children had drowned, bringing the number of feared dead to 700. Brough...

A migrant boat capsizing last week. Photo: Courtesy of Marina MilitareMore than 700 migrants may have drowned in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks south of Italy in the last few days as they tried to reach Europe, according to the UN refugee agency. Carlotta Sami, spokeswoman for UNHCR, told Associated P...

It is the fourth time the final of Europe’s premier club event will to be held at the San Siro. Photo: AFPMilan’s San Siro stadium is preparing for a glitzy all-Spanish final of the Champions League final on Saturday, as fans of Real and Atletico Madrid packed the city in glorious summer sunshine. R...

Dozens more migrants are reported missing after a fishing boat sank on Friday. Photo: AFPDozens of migrants were missing after an overloaded fishing boat sank off the coast of Libya on Friday, the latest tragic accident in the Mediterranean this week, Italian rescuers said. Italian coastgard sent in...

A TV advert for a Chinese laundry detergent has been widely condemned, with commentators saying it’s the most racist ad to ever be screened. But a very similar one was made 10 years ago – in Italy. In the advert below for the Chinese washing brand, Qiaobi, a woman is loading her washing machine when...

The wreck of the P311. Photo: Massimo Domenico BondonePeople were stunned by the discovery of a body-filled, Second World War-era submarine off the coast of Sardinia earlier this week, not least Paul Denison, who told The Local his great-uncle was among the 71 who perished on board. “When I heard ab...

Alicia Keys will become the first person to sing live at a Champions League final. Photo: Stephen Brashear/Getty Images/AFPAmerican R&B star Alicia Keys will make history by becoming the first artist to sing live at a Champions League final opening ceremony that promises unprecedented glitz and glam...

A court in Padua has ruled in favour of a divorced father who pays alimony to his ex-wife in the form of pizza. Photo: Erich Ferdinand/FlickrDivorce can be a complicated business, and every family's needs are different. In some cases, that means paying alimony in the form of €300 worth of pizza. A c...

The research paints a grim picture of the dangers faced by ancient Roman workers . Photo: Carla CaladariniA groundbreaking study of 2,000 ancient Roman skeletons has shown how many of the ancient city's inhabitants were riddled with arthritis, suffered broken bones and were generally dead before 30....

Ken Domon at work. Photo: Wikimedia commonsThe works of Ken Domon, an acclaimed photographer whose images of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bomb shocked 1950s Japan, take centre stage in Rome Friday with the opening of the first exhibition of his pictures outside his home country. Domon, who died in...

Images taken of Wednesday's migrant shipwreck. Photo: Marina MiltareSurvivors of a fishing boat shipwreck in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya on Wednesday said that some 100 migrants may have drowned, the Inte ational Organization of Migration said on Thursday. "The survivors who talked to o...

The man's body was found at his home in Cagliari, Sardinia. Photo: Simon FrostThe body of a man who died five years ago was found on Thursday in his home in Sardinia. The body of Marcello Putzu, who would have been 59 this year, was found only because a neighbour in the San Gavino Monreale area of C...

Migrants await rescue off the Libyan coast on Wednesday. Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFPA Nigerian baby girl who survived a shipwreck that killed her parents and captured the heart of an Italian doctor has become the new face of the country's migrant drama, with hundreds of requests to adopt the orphan. Ni...

The latest disaster comes two days after five people died while trying to make the crossing to Italy. Photo: Marinare MilitareAbout 20 to 30 people have drowned in the latest migrant shipwreck off Libya, Italian media reported. Citing sources from the EU mission, EUNAVFOR MED, Ansa reported that the...