Italian Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone (R). Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPThe Vatican has opened an investigation into the financing of renovations at a luxury penthouse occupied by Italian cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the former number two in the Holy See hierarchy, officials said on Thursday. Spread across h...

The man was held at Rome's Fiumicino airport. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFPA Lebanese man was detained by border police at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on Thursday after they realized he had been reported as a member of a terrorist cell. The man, who was carrying €20,000 in cash, was about to board a flight t...

An Italian father wants Apple to unblock his late sons phone and give him back the photos inside. Photo: Kim Jae-Hwan/AFPA grieving father in Italy has written to Apple's chief executive Tim Cook to beg him to unblock his dead son's iPhone so he can retrieve the photographs stored on it. If the US t...

Almost 1,500 migrants were rescued off Sicily over the first couple of days of this week. Photo: Giovanni Isolino/AFPA Rome pensioner managed to play a role in saving the lives of 600 boat migrants after receiving repeated calls for help early on Tuesday mo ing. The 66-year-old, from the city’s Marc...

The nurse was arrested for allegedly killing 13 people at a hospital in Italy. Photo: Enki22A nurse who works at Piombino hospital, in the Tuscan city of Livo o, was arrested late on Wednesday night for the alleged murder of 13 patients. The woman is suspected of murdering the patients, who were hos...

As Europe struggles with an identity crisis, a new exhibition in Rome looks at the birth of European culture through ancient manuscripts and the earliest printed books, including a first edition of Dante's Divine Comedy. While mass migrant arrivals have fuelled xenophobia and threatened toxa0undermi...

People hold an Italian flag with photos of Giulio Regeni, who was found dead bearing signs of torture after disappearing in Cairo in January. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPEgypt's state prosecutor ordered on Wednesday the formation of an investigating team to probe the brutal murder of Italian studen...

Thousands of Catholics gathered for Pope Francis' Easter Sunday mass. But how many are practising? Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPItalians might be enjoying the popularity of Pope Francis, who was named the world’s most popular leader in a poll just a few days ago, but that doesn’t mean to say they practi...

A 40-year-old man has been fined for weeing at the side of the S42 main road, pictured above. Photo: WikimediaA 40-year-old man was slapped with a hefty fine on Monday when he stopped to urinate at the side of a main road in northe Italy. The man was on his way back from spending Easter Monday with ...

Ryanair does not owe Italy €9.4 million, a Bergamo court has ruled. Photo: Olivier Morin/AFPA court in Bergamo has ruled that the low-cost Irish airline, Ryanair, does not owe Italy €9.4 million in social contributions due to an EU law that allows it to put staff on the books in Ireland, where tax r...

Salvatore Girone has been living in Italy's embassy in New Delhi for several years. Photo: Vincenzo Pito/AFPItaly on Wednesday launched a legal battle at an inte ational tribunal to bring home an Italian marine, barred from leaving India after the 2012 killing of two Indian fishermen who Rome says w...

Six medics have been jailed after a woman was goven a fatal overdose of the chemotherapy drug vinblastine. Photo: Stephen DickterFour doctors and two nurses have been jailed for culpable homicide after a patient was killed by a huge overdose of anticancer drugs in a Sicilian hospital. The case dates...

Seif Eldin Mustafa (C) is taken away by police after leaving a court in La aca on Tuesday. Photo: George Michael/AFPThe man who held passengers and crew hostage aboard an EgyptAir plane for hours on Tuesday was asked to pose for a photograph by a British hostage during the ordeal, an Italian aboard ...

Some 17,500 migrants have arrived in Italy since the start of the year. Photo: Giovanni Isolino/AFPItaly's coast guard said on Tuesday 1,569 migrants had been rescued in 11 separate operations in the Strait of Sicily, as a wave of boats departing from the Libyan coast intensifies. The "Diciotti" ves...

Much of Italy is in for abnormaly hot weather this week. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFPThe mercury is expected to rise across south and central Italy this week as an African anticyclone sends temperatures soaring way above seasonal averages. The clocks may only have just gone forward, but the high press...

Paola Regeni, the mother of murdered student, Giulio. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPThe mother of murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni, tortured to death in Egypt in January, told Italy's parliament on Tuesday she had only recognized 'the tip of her son's nose when identifying his body. Amid increasing...

An Easter parade of the Jesus statue shown above was redirected to pay tribute to a mafia boss. Photo: WikimediaAn investigation is underway after a Sicilian town's Good Friday procession was redirected to pay tribute to a ruthless mafia boss. The annual Good Friday procession in San Michele di Ganz...

Dancers Umberto and Roberto come out on Italia's Got Talent. Screengrab: Italia's Got TalentUmberto and Roberto, who appeared on Italia’s Got Talent last week, have been together for two years. But only their mothers knew they were gay. The two dancers’ brave ‘coming out’ managed to win over the fou...

Passengers of an EgyptAir Airbus A-320, which was hijacked and diverted to Cyprus, at La aca airport after disembarking the plane. Photo: George Michael/AFPAn Italian was among the 81 passengers on board an EgyptAir flight when it took off from Alexandria in Egypt on Tuesday mo ing. There were also ...

Italy's coastguard said 730 people were rescued on Sunday and 752 on Monday. Photo: Alfonso Di Vincenzo/AFPNearly 1,500 migrants, including many women and children, have been rescued in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya over the past two days, the Italian coastguard said on Monday. A total of...