Giovanna Lanzavecchia had been staying at a hotel in Istanbul's Sultanahmet district. Photo: DeepgoswamiAn Italian tourist was detained in Istanbul on Sunday for allegedly publishing information on the inte et about the banned PKK Kurdish separatist group, which Turkish officials consider to be a te...

The newbo was put in a bin by her mum and then later retreived. Photo: IndeZèntA 27-year-old woman put her newbo baby girl in a rubbish bin on Sunday mo ing – before retu ing to save the child moments before the binmen came to empty the container. The mother, a Romanian care worker, was living in th...

Marco Patuano is set to step down as CEO of Telecom Italia. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFPItaly's Telecom Italia said Monday it was in "advanced negotiations" on the resignation of its chief executive Marco Patuano, after reports of disagreements with its main shareholder, France's Vivendi. After weeks ...

The theatre was discovered under a derelict building in 2001. Photo: Screengrab/CorriereAn ancient Roman amphitheatre, in the town of Fano, in the Marche region, is slowly rotting away beneath an abandoned factory from the early 1900s. “The original builders most probably knew what they were buildin...

Tiemoke Konate (L) was racially abused by Lazio fans during Lazio's 3-0 defeat to Sparta Prauge. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPLazio could face a UEFA racism probe after Sparta Prague's Ivory Coast midfielder Tiemoke Konate was targeted with monkey chants during a 3-0 Stadio Olimpico win that ended Ital...

The accident is one of the deadliest in Spain in the past years. Photo: Pau Barrena/AFPThirteen students were killed and dozens more injured in Spain on Sunday when the driver of their coach lost control and crashed into an oncoming car as they retu ed from a festival. The bus was carrying students ...

Pope Francis met Instagram chief and founder Kevin Systrom at the Vatican last month. Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFPPope Francis posted his first photo on Instagram on Saturday, a picture showing him kneeling down praying, on the third anniversary of his inauguration as Holy Father. "I want to walk with y...

Lazio could face a UEFA racism probe after Sparta Prague's Ivory Coast midfielder Tiemoke Konate was targeted with monkey chants during a 3-0 Stadio Olimpico win that ended Italian interest in Europe this season. Lazio had hoped to be left flying the flag as Italy's only survivors inxa0Europe on Thu...

Peggy Guggenheim in Paris in 1930. Photo: Rogi André/WikicommonsFrom Kandinsky to Pollock, the extraordinary impact collectors Peggy and Solomon Guggenheim had on 20th century art is celebrated by an exhibition of over 100 masterpieces that opens in Florence on Saturday. Subtitled "The Art of the Gu...

Football hooligans were filmed urinating on a beggar in Rome. Photo: Screengrab/Corriere Della SeraShameless football hooligans following the Czech club Sparta Prague to Rome were filmed urinating on a street beggar in the city. The incident happened on Thursday afte oon, on the bridge in front of C...

Najmuddin Ahmad Faraj, better known as Mullah Krekar, was released by Norway on Thursday. Photo: Poppe, Co elius/NTB Scanpix/AFPInfamous Norway-based fundamentalist preacher Najmuddin Ahmad Faraj — better known as Mullah Krekar, was released from police custody on Thursday after a Norway court ruled...

The Piper plane was stopped before take-off in Messolonghi. Photo: Aleksander MarkinSix suspected members of a trafficking network were arrested in Greece as they prepared to fly seven Iraqi migrants to Italy in a light aircraft, Greek police said on Thursday. The gang of four Greek nationals and tw...

Ferrari announced on Thursday that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with two Chinese companies to build a theme park in China. The non-binding deal with Beijing Automotive and Biac Ete aland Propertyxa0will, if implemented, see the two Chinese companies licensed to establish thexa0park in...

Bordighera said it would fine people who give money to beggars. Photo: Riccardo Romano The decision was made after residents in the Ligurian coastal town of Bordighera, close to the French border, complained that they were being bothered by panhandlers. Mayor Giacomo Pallanca said it was "pointless"...

Italian deputies on Thursday approved a new law aimed at curbing food waste which will make it easier for supermarkets, wholesalers and farmers to pass unsold products on to charities. The draft legislation, which is expected to be definitively approved soonxa0after examination by the Senate, reform...

Switzerland cannot extradite two alleged mobsters to Italy because they don’t want to go. The duo, suspected of being members of a Swiss-based cell of the powerful Italian crime organization ‘Ndrangheta, have refused to be extradited. Since they are naturalized Swiss, they cannot be extradited again...

Photo of a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci. Photo: Nico Barbatelli/WikicommonsItalian aerospace and defence giant Finmeccanica on Wednesday said it planned to change its name to Leonardo, after celebrated Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, as part of a major restructuring. The announcement came as ...

A statue from the Torlonia collection. Photo: Fondazione Torlonia OnlusHidden for decades, one of the world's greatest collections of ancient Roman statues and sculptures is reputedly so dazzling that a prominent archaeologist once disguised himself as a garbage man to grab a sneak glimpse. Now a se...

David Gilmour last played at Pompeii in 1971. Photo: Pierre Andrieu/AFPGuitarist David Gilmour will play the ancient Roman amphitheatre at Pompeii on July 7th and 8th, 45 years after recording a documentary there with former bandmates Pink Floyd, Italy's culture minister said on Wednesday. "Deal don...

Some 9,500 migrants have landed at Italian ports since the start of the year. Photo: Giovanni Isolino/AFPNearly 2,000 migrants and two corpses have been recovered from people smugglers' boats off Libya since Tuesday, Italy's coastguard said on Wednesday. Further rescue operations were ongoing, a spo...