A mountain rescue team in northe Italy on Wednesday found six people, dressed in jeans and gym shoes, attempting to cross a snow-covered pass in freezing temperatures. It was one of several such incidents in recent months, according to rescuers, who say the situation has reached “emergency level”. O...

People demonstrating in favour of citizenship reform in October 2016. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Parliament is not expected to vote on the gove ment's controversial proposal to reform Italy's citizenship laws this term, whips said on Wednesday. The so-called "ius soli" bill, which would create an...

A Frecciarossa high-speed train in Milan station. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP From February 2018, the jou ey between Perugia and Milan will take little more than three hours. Trenitalia is to introduce the first direct high-speed train link between the capitals of Umbria and Lombardy, the rail compan...

Savona is home to over 6,000 dogs. File photo: Pexels The mayor of a coastal town in Italy has been accused of "banning dogs" from the historic centre after introducing fines for owners who don't clear up after their four-legged pals. Ilaria Caprioglio, mayor of Savona in the northweste Liguria regi...

File photo of a police car outside a Milan hospital. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP Police in Sicily have arrested an ambulance driver suspected of killing at least three patients in order to make money from their funerals. The deaths took place while terminally ill patients were being driven to their f...

The head of the Northe League, Matteo Salvini, leads a rally against Italy's proposed citizenship law. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Fear over migrants, not euro-scepticism, is fuelling populism in Italy ahead of next year’s general election, according to a survey by La Stampa and the Financial Time...

The oldest living European, Giuseppina Projetto. Photo: Richard Monkey/Wikimedia Commons. Italy’s Giuseppina Projetto, 115, has taken the title of Europe’s oldest living person after the death of a 116-year-old Spaniard. Ana Vela Rubio, bo on October 29th, 1901, passed away peacefully at her nursing...

A hat in a "Borsalino" flag-ship store in Florence. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP Famed Italian hatmaker Borsalino, the company behind Humphrey Bogart's fedora in "Casablanca" and Harrison Ford's lucky headgear in the "Indiana Jones" movies, was declared bankrupt on Monday, a trade union said. A court i...

Give your friends and family a little piece of Italy this year by following our guide to the best gifts for everyone on your list. 1. Italian art Photo: Tolga Akmen/AFP Buying Italian art can be very expensive: the painting shown above, Leonardo Da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, sold for a record $400 mill...

Andrea Agnelli. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Juventus president Andrea Agnelli saw his one-year ban over a ticket sales scandal ended after less than three months on Monday, following an appeal to the Italian Football Federation (FIGC). However, his 20,000 euro ($23,600) fine for his role in the bulk ...

An Italian arrested in Portugal after fleeing a life sentence for a deadly 1974 bombing was extradited to Rome on Tuesday, Italian police said. Maurizio Tramonte, 65, a former secret service informant, was sentenced to life behind bars inxa02015, 41 years after the attack that killed eight people an...

A newspaper kiosk in Milan. Photo: Jose Luis Hidalgo R/Flickr An Italian newspaper editor has been acquitted of wrongdoing over a headline printed after the 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, which labelled the killers 'Islamic bastards'. Maurizio Belpietroxa0published the headline on the front page o...

Alas, poor Spelacchio. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Christmas is dead – or at least, the much mocked Christmas tree provided by Rome's city council is. The Christmas tree erected in Piazza Venezia at a cost of nearly €50,000 is deceased, no more, bereft of life, a spokesperson for the capital's enviro...

This is her message: From the very beginning of the UK’s negotiations to leave the European Union I have been consistently clear that protecting the rights of both EU citizens living in the UK and UK nationals living in the EU was my first priority. I know that the referendum result has caused consi...

A butcher's shop in Chianti. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFP China has lifted a longstanding import ban on Italian beef, officials said on Tuesday, paving the way for Florentine steak and other specialities to enter to Chinese kitchens for the first time in 16 years. Italian beef will be allowed to retu ...

Pope Francis with Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno and his wife Rocio Gonzalez Navas on Saturday. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP The Vatican museum has retu ed a shrunken head to Ecuador, relinquishing the wizened cranium of an Amazon warrior nearly 100 years after it was taken by a missionary. The gris...

This file photo taken on November 1st, 1938 shows Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini (R) and King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (L). Photo: France Presse Voir/AFP The body of Italy's controversial king Victor Emmanuel III retu ed to Italy on Sunday, amid a row over where the monarch who abette...

The giant panettone cake at the Victor Emmanuel II shopping gallery. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP Forget mistletoe, Christmas is not Christmas in Italy without a slice of panettone -- and festivities kicked off in Milan on Sunday with free slices of the biggest Italian candied cake in the world. Weig...

Dozens of rowers dressed as Father Christmas raced down Venice's Grand Canal on Sunday, cheered on by crowds gathered to watch the annual fancy-dress regatta. Organised by the University Ca' Foscari, the eighth edition of the race set off from Saint Mark's Square, with champions and amateurs competi...

Officers at the scene in the aftermath of the shooting. Photo: Guardia Civil/Twitter A Serbian-bo man arrested in Spain over the killing of three men agreed on Sunday to be extradited to Italy where he is wanted for robbery and murder, a Spanish court said. Police arrested Norbert Feher on Friday in...