Finmeccanica boss Giuseppe Orsi (L) has been jailed for 4.5 years. Photo: Adrian Dennis/AFPThe former boss of Italian aerospace and defence group Finmeccanica, Giuseppe Orsi, was sentenced on Thursday by the Milan appeals court to 4.5 years in jail for false accounting and corruption, Italian media ...

A tick, and Florence's Uffizi Gallery. Photo: Andy L and John Tann/FlickrThe country’s most famous art museum was forced to call in pest control on Thursday night - for the second time this week - after an employee was hospitalized due to a tick bite. The parasites, which are relatively common in no...

The son of a prominent mafia boss was interviewed by Italy's national broadcaster on Wednesday. Photo: Screengrab/RaiAnti-mafia campaigners and victims of the Mob voiced fury on Thursday after Italy's national broadcaster gave airtime to the son of Sicily's most notorious gangster to promote a book ...

A French video showing how to make a speedy 'one-pot' pasta alla carbonara has been met with sco and derision in Italy. The video was uploaded to YouTube by French news site demotivateurxa0in late March, but went viral in Italy this earlier week, as thousands of Italians shared the video, mostly wit...

Locals first: tourists will soon have to wait in line to board a water bus in Venice. Photo: Lauchlin WilkinsonVisitors to Venice this summer will be forced to wait patiently to board water buses in the tourist-clogged canal city after authorities there said locals must be allowed to get on first. I...

A graffito by Bansky has been placed under a protective cover. Photo: Salvatore Vastano/AFPBritish street artist Banksy's only known surviving work in Italy - a Naples mural entitled "Madonna with a pistol" - has been placed under a protective cover in the hope of preserving it. The work, possibly a...

The migrants staged a 'sit down' protest in Cagliari. Photo: Unione SardaLurid headlines on global websites claim Sardinia has been 'taken hostage' by protesting migrants. But locals have poured sco on the reports. We have definitely not been taken hostage, a local jou alist told The Local. On Monda...

Elisabeth Myers met Pope Francis at his weekly audience in Rome. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFPElizabeth "Lizzy" Myers, a little American girl who is losing her sight to a rare genetic disease, got her wish on Wednesday to meet Pope Francis. Accompanied by her parents and her little sister, Lizzy was able ...

Scientists think they have finally discovered the Alpine pass used by Hannibal to enter Italy. Photo: WikimediaThe route taken by Hannibal over the Alps to invade Italy has been a matter of debate for 2,000 years, but scientists may now have the answer - thanks to some ancient horse poo. More than 1...

Some 76,000 jobs were unfilled in last year. Photo: Kailash Gyawali/FlickrItaly's technology sector is struggling to fill thousands of jobs, despite the county's high unemployment, due to a shortage of talent. Some 76,000 of professional-level jobs offered by companies in the industrial and services...

Paolo Gentiloni has wa ed that Italy will not accept a 'fabricated' account of Giulio Regeni's torture. Photo: John Thys/AFPItaly has upped its pressure on Egypt over slain student Giulio Regeni, wa ing it would not accept a "fabricated" account of the Italian's torture and murder from Egyptian pros...

Kuwait has signed a deal for 28 Eurofighter "Typhoon" warplanes from Italy's Finmeccanica. Photo: Eric Piermont/AFPKuwait and Finmeccanica signed on Tuesday a contract for 28 Eurofighter "Typhoon" warplanes as the oil-rich Gulf state that is part of the anti-Islamic State coalition beefs up its mili...

53-year-old Salvatore Cimmino (R) is hoping to become the first man to swim uninterupted form Florida to Cuba. Photo: Salvatore CimminoSalvatore Cimmino is bidding to become the first person to complete a 166km uninterrupted swim From Florida to Cuba. As If that wasn't impressive enough, he only has...

People hold placards reading 'Truth about Giulio Regeni ', an Italian student who was found dead in Egypt, bearing signs of torture. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPA team of Egyptian prosecutors and policemen is to fly to Rome on Wednesday to submit their findings in the investigation into the brutal ...

German could help Austria step-up patrols at its border with Italy to stem the flow of migrants towards northe Europe. Photo: Sakis Mitrolidis/AFPGermany should send border police to back-up Austrian police as they control their border with Italy in a bid to prevent migrants and refugees moving nort...

Antonio Conte, who will take over Chelsea after Euro 2016, is accused of sporting fraud. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPAn Italian court on Tuesday called for new Chelsea manager Antonio Conte to receive a six-month suspended prison sentence over match-fixing allegations. The current Italy manager, who wi...

People hold placards reading 'Truth about Giulio Regeni ', an Italian student who was found dead in Egypt, bearing signs of torture. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPA team of Egyptian prosecutors and policemen is to fly to Rome on Wednesday to submit their findings in the brutal murder of Italian stude...

The 39-year-old curator of the Keats-Shelley Memorial House was found dead on Monday. Photo: WikimediaGiuseppe Albano, curator of a central Rome museum dedicated to the British romantic poets, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, was found dead on Monday. The 39-year-old curator is believed to have ...

Italy’s Constitutional Reform and Relations Minister Maria Elena Boschi has been questioned over a sleaze scandal which has already seen a top minister resign. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPItaly’s Constitutional Reform and Relations Minister Maria Elena Boschi has been questioned over a sleaze scandal w...

Former racing driver Ja o Trulli was among the Italians named in the so-called Panama Papers. Photo: Alejandro Pagni/AFPItalian tax authorities are moving towards opening a probe after a massive leak of information from a Panama-based law firm showed possible wrongdoing in how the world's rich use o...