All lights in the surrounding square were switched off as the baroque fountain tu ed a brilliant red. Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFPThe Trevi fountain in Rome was bathed in red light on Friday, symbolising the spilt blood of persecuted Christians, in a grim makeover for one of Italy's most iconic monument...

More than 350,000 people fleeing conflict and poverty have reached Italy on boats from Libya since the start of 2014. Photo: Giovanni Isolino/AFPFifteen migrants are missing after their boat sank on Friday, the second shipwreck that day in the Mediterranean, bringing the number of lives lost to almo...

File picture of migrants in a boat. Photo: AFPAn Italian cargo ship rescued 26 migrants from a flimsy boat that was sinking off the coast of Libya but there are fears more may be missing, the Italian coastguard said Saturday, AFP reported. The coastguard received a call from a satellite phone late F...

All lights in the surrounding square were switched off as the baroque fountain tu ed a brilliant red. Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFPThe Trevi fountain in Rome was bathed in red light on Friday, symbolising the spilt blood of persecuted Christians, in a grim makeover for one of Italy's most iconic monument...

Courts have been finding in favour of gay couples since 2014 based on current legislation which favours "emotional continuity" for children. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPTwo gay Italian women on Friday won the right to adopt each other's children in a legal first. All previous verdicts in Italy in f...

Rescue forces work at the shore west of Bergen, Norway after a helicopter transporting 13 oil workers crashed. Photo: Rune Nielsen/NTB Scanpix/AFPEleven dead bodies have been recovered after a helicopter carrying 13 people crashed off weste Norway on Friday, with the search continuing for the other ...

Italy's inte et tu ed thrirty on Friday. Photo:Scott Beale/FlickrOn April 29th 1986, Italy became the fourth European country to connect to the inte et. Thirty years on, it has the slowest speeds in the EU. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi was just 11 years old when boffins at Pisa University sent a stre...

Seven courts will try Silvio Berlusconi as part of an ongoing investigation into whether he paid girls to lie under oath. Photo: Gianni Schicci/AFPMultiple courts across Italy will join forces to try billionaire Silvio Berlusconi and the young women he is accused of bribing to lie under oath, a judg...

Italy's inte et tu ed thrirty on Friday. Photo:Scott Beale/FlickrOn April 29th 1986, Italy became the fourth European country to connect to the inte et. Thirty years on, it has the slowest speeds in the EU. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi was just 11 years old when boffins at Pisa University sent a stre...

Seven courts will try Silvio Berlusconi as part of an ongoing investigation into whether he paid girls to lie under oath. Photo: Gianni Schicci/AFPMultiple courts across Italy will join forces to try billionaire Silvio Berlusconi and the young women he is accused of bribing to lie under oath, a judg...

Rescue forces work at the shore west of Bergen, Norway after a helicopter transporting 13 oil workers crashed. Photo: Rune Nielsen/NTB Scanpix/AFPEleven dead bodies have been recovered after a helicopter carrying 13 people crashed off weste Norway on Friday, with the search continuing for the other ...

US Vice President Joe Biden (C) has taken his cancer campaign to the Vatican. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFPUS Vice President Joe Biden won Pope Francis's backing Friday in his battle for research advances in curing cancer to be made available to everyone, as he brought his "Moonshot" campaign to the Vat...

Germany's Interior Minister has told Italy to do more to stop migrants arriving in northe Europe. Photo: Giovanni Isolino/AFPGermany's interior minister on Friday put the onus on Italy to halt a new mass influx of migrants to northe Europe, lending backing to Austria in a row with Rome. "We share Au...

A niqab-wearing tourist was prevented from entering a museum in Padua. Photo: Fixers/FlickerA Muslim tourist wearing a niqab – a traditional garment wo by women in public, which leaves only their eyes on show – was stopped from entering an Italian museum by police on Wednesday. The Saudi Arabian tou...

Cala Rossa on Sicily's Favagnana island. Photo: Lula1977Ditch the crowds of Florence, Venice and Pompeii for one of our seven hidden gems of Italy. The Lakes: Lake Iseo Photo: Franco Folini/Flickr Forget Como. Avoid Maggiore and Garda. Lake Iseo, midway between Como and Garda, is spell-binding, but ...

Italy has said Austrian plans to build a migrant fence at the Brenner Pass, pictured above, are a waste of money. Photo: Photo: A ulf Zu Linde /WikimediaItaly told Austria on Thursday it would prove Vienna was "wasting money" on anti-migrant measures and closing the border between the two countries ...

AC Milan chief executive Adriano Galliani has played down talks of a crisis amid repots of huge losses and ongoing takeover talks. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPAC Milan chief executive Adriano Galliani has played down claims of an impending crisis following a shareholders meeting at which the strugglin...

There are 19,000 people over 100 in Italy, what's their secret? Photo: Sergio Pani/FlickrA report published on Tuesday revealed the number of centenarians in Italy has tripled over the last 15 years. There are now some 19,000 people over the age of 100 – a number experts say is driven by the country...

Francesco Schettino is trying to avoid jail for his part in the Costa Concordia disaster. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPDisgraced skipper Francesco Schettino on Thursday began his battle to avoid prison for the 2012 cruise ship disaster off Italy in which 32 people died, his lawyers arguing that others ...

Animal rights group Peta has become a shareholder in Italy's Prada. Photo: Maddy Cheng/AFPAnimal rights group Peta said on Thursday it has acquired shares in Prada to pursue its protest over ostrich leather handbags from inside the luxury fashion group. Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Anim...