How Bari's seafront will look. Picture: Inarch PugliaA new project hopes to "give back the sea" to Bari's residents, by making it more accessible to pedestrians and cyclists, and adding extra facilities to the waterfront. In plans that were unveiled on Saturday and for which the province has secured...

Asutria has begun building an anti-migrant barrier at the Brenner pass, pictured above, on its Italian border. Photo: A ulf Zu Linde /WikimediaAustria has begun building an anti-migrant barrier across the Brenner pass at the Italian border. "The structure will be 250 metres long and will cover both ...

How Bari's seafront will look. Picture: Inarch PugliaA new project hopes to "give back the sea" to Bari's residents, by making it more accessible to pedestrians and cyclists, and adding extra facilities to the waterfront. In plans that were unveiled on Saturday and for which the province has secured...

Asutria has begun building an anti-migrant barrier at the brenner pass, pictured above, on its Italian borderPhoto: A ulf Zu Linde /WikimediaAustria has begun building an anti-migrant barrier across the Brenner pass at the Italian border. "The structure will be 250 metres long and will cover both th...

A travelling shepherd has been heavilly fined by one Italian town. Photo: David Martin Hunt/FlickrA travelling shepherd who is herding his flock around Italy, grazing the animals at public parks and gardens, has been fined €12,000 – as his sheep allegedly don't have the required vaccines. Massimo Fr...

How Bari's seafront will look. Picture: Inarch PugliaA new project hopes to "give back the sea" to Bari's residents, by making it more accessible to pedestrians and cyclists, and adding extra facilities to the waterfront. 9In plans that were unveiled on Saturday and for which the province has secure...

The entrance to the Catacomb of Priscilla. Photo: Andy Rusch/FlickrA safe was stolen from an important early Christian catacomb in Rome over the weekend. The safe was taken from the director's office of the Catacomb of Priscilla, located on Via Salaria in central Rome, in the early hours of Sunday m...

Pro-choice activists demonstrate in Rome in 2014. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPWomen in Italy still encounter “substantial difficulty” in accessing services to enable them to safely terminate a pregnancy despite abortion being legal in the country since the 1970s, the Council of Europe said on Monday. A...

Lazio player Antonio Candreva narrowly escaped an exploding flare. Photo: Michal Cizek/AFPPalermo's Serie A relegation woes deepened in a trouble-hit 3-0 defeat to Lazio that saw the match stopped twice by the referee as rocket flares came dangerously close to hitting players. German veteran Mirosla...

Franco Roberti, Italy's chief anti-mafia and anti-terrorism prosecutor. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPItaly's chief anti-mafia and anti-terrorism prosecutor has wa ed that hundreds of minors in prisons for young offenders are at risk of being radicalized by extremists. Franco Roberti wa ed that unless It...

A man fell to his death from his balcony in Brescia, after the railing gave way. Photo: Luca Sartoni/FlickrA 39-year-old man died after falling 10 metres from his balcony when the railing he was leaning on suddenly gave way. The incident happened late last week when Dumitro Palamaryuk, a Romanian na...

Rolando Del Torchio was kidnapped in the Phillipines six months ago. Photo: Photo: STR/AFPSome 22 Philippine soldiers were wounded Saturday in a firefight with Islamic militants, the military said, a day after the release of a retired Italian priest taken hostage in the Muslim-populated south of the...

People hold placards reading "Truth about Giulio Regeni " during a demonstration in front of the Egypt's embassy in Rome. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPItaly recalled its ambassador to Egypt on Friday for “urgent” consultations in protest against the lack of progress in a probe into the fate of slain...

Yinka Shonibare MBE, British Nigerian, hugged by German Katrin Lock.If Britain leaves the EU after its referendum in June, it won’t just affect Brits, but people from across Europe - none of whom will get a vote. Now Europeans can get involved – by love-bombing their British friends to encourage the...

Policemen point to the robber's gun. Photo: Carabinieri BariWhen an armed robber walked into a newsagent's, his face covered and brandishing a pistol, this shopkeeper was not willing to hand over the contents of his till without first putting up a fight. The young man pointed his gun at the Bari sho...

Rolando Del Torchio was kidnapped in the Phillipines six months ago. Photo: Photo: STR/AFPA retired Italian priest abducted six months ago in the southe Philippines by suspected Islamic militants was released on Friday, police said. Rolando Del Torchio was picked up at a port on the southe island of...

A French tourist was charged by police after flying a drone over the Colosseum. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPA French tourist was arrested by police in Rome on Thursday afte oon after piloting his camera drone over the iconic Colosseum. While the opportunity of getting some aerial footage of the Fla...

Independet bookstores are refusing to sell the autobiography of a mafioso's son. Photo: Modus VivendiIndependent bookstores across Italy are refusing to sell a book written by Giuseppe Salvatore Riina, the son of a once-feared Sicilian godfather Totò Riina. Riina's book, “Riina Family Life,” recount...

Interior Minister Angelino Alfano. Photo: Olivier Morin/AFPA 32-year-old man was expelled from Italy on Thursday evening for expressing terrorist sympathies, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano announced. "Last night another expulsion was carried out for the security of the state," Alfano told Italian...

A man who killed his neighbours dog by feeding it walnuts has been handed a one year jail sentence. File photo: Luong Tong/FlickrA man who poisoned his neighbour's dog by feeding it nuts every time it barked outside has been handed a one-year jail sentence - a much harsher punishment than the €8,000...