A Ryanair plane over Italy. Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFP Ryanair’s attempts to stop its staff in Italy going on strike are “shameful”, the Italian economy minister said on Wednesday. The budget airline sent a letter to Italian cabin crew on Tuesday wa ing them that they would jeopardize their chances of...

Snow in Turin earlier in December. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP Parts of northe Italy are on red alert after a weekend of freezing rain and snow that has left roads icy, trains stuck and schools closed. Italy saw its first widespread snowfall of 2017 over the weekend as flakes fell from the far north...

The town of Sondrio in Lombardy, Italy. Photo: Franco Folini/Flickr A man will be charged with attempting mass murder after he drove a car into a Christmas market in northe Italian town of Sondrio, prosecutors said on Monday. Local man Michele Bordoni, 27, injured three people when he crashed a Toyo...

Inside the royal apartments of the Reggia di Caserta. Photo: Mia Battaglia/Flickr Experts are checking the stability of the Royal Palace of Caserta, one of Italy’s most visited tourist attractions, after part of a plaster ceiling in the queen’s apartments collapsed. Plaster smashed to the ground on ...

A rescue operation in October 2017. Photo: Alessandro Fucarini/AFP Sicily on Monday welcomed nearly 900 migrants rescued in Mediterranean waters off the coast of Libya in the past few days, with many expressing relief at having escaped the "Libyan hell". More than 330 migrants rescued by Italian coa...

Doctors at the Bambino Gesu children's hospital in Rome. Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFP Doctors across Italy will strike on December 12th in protest against spending cuts, pay freezes and temporary contracts. All of Italy’s major public doctors’ unions plan to join the 24-hour strike, which is expected to...

A group of migrants awaits rescue off the Libyan coast. Photo: Angelos Tzortzinis / AFP Amnesty Inte ational on Tuesday accused European gove ments of "complicity" in the detention under horrific conditions of migrants in Libya, especially through their assistance to the Libyan coastguard implicated...

Tourists visiting the Pantheon. Photo: Gabriel Buoys/AFP Visitors to Rome's Pantheon, an ancient temple-tu ed-church, will have to pay to visit the site from May next year, Italy's culture ministry announced on Monday. Tickets will costxa0€2 and will be introduced on May 2nd, 2018, so locals and tho...

Sforzesco castle in Milan. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP A wave of rain, snow, and extreme cold weather was continuing to cause disruption across Italy on Tuesday, particularly in the north of the country. The northeaste regions of Liguria, Tuscany, and Emilia Romagna were still on red alert for the b...

Snapping a picture of the tree in Milan's central square. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP From north to south and east to west, Italy's towns and cities have had a festive makeover ahead of the Christmas holidays. We've gathered together the best snaps of the most magical displays from across the countr...

An explosion at Austria's Baumgarten gas facility has interrupted supplies to Italy. Photo: Joe Klamar/AFP Italy will declare a state of emergency after an explosion at a gas plant in Austria cut off supplies from Russia, the Italian energy minister said on Tuesday. At least one person was killed an...

Milan's Piazza del Duomo. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP Milan celebrates local and national public holidays this week, giving it a four-day weekend packed with festivities. Local writer Rachael Martin presents her top picks for how to spend the holiday. Milan's annual Christmas celebrations kicked off...

Italian police said on Thursday they arrested a man who used thallium, found in rat poison, to murder two grandparents and an aunt because he claimed they were "unclean". Maria Luisa Zanetti, the prosecutor from the northe town of Monza just north of Milan, told reporters that 27-year-old Mattia Del...

British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker address a press conference at the European Commission in Brussels on December 8. Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP The groundbreaking agreement follows an intense 24 hours of negotiations and includes major breakth...

Inter Milan's Mauro Icardi, the in-form man. File photo: Miguel Medina/AFP. After expertly dealing with flamboyant Napoli last Friday, December 1st, and securing a spot in the Champions League last 16, Juventus can make it a perfect week by denting Serie A leaders Inter Milan's title credentials thi...

The tree on Monte Ingino, above the Umbrian town of Gubbio. File photo: Paolo Tosti/AFP. Central Italy's set of lights shaped like a Christmas tree on Monte Ingino is the largest in the world. Astronaut Paolo Nespoli lit the tree this year by sending a signal from the space station where he has been...

Bassirou (4th from left), from Burkina Faso, has just joined an Italian fashion brand. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP. From forced labour in Libya to a job as a founding member of an Italian fashion start-up, Bassirou has come a long way in two years, thanks to his skills with scissors. The 26-year-old Bu...

A nativity scene made of white beans, co ke els and fruit peels has got Italians going nuts for it. Nativity scenes come in all shapes and sizes. The Catalans place a small man taking a poo on theirs. The defecating farmer figurine is known as 'El Caganer' – the crapper. Now an Italian artist is bei...

Former prime minister Matteo Renzi, shown here in an unrelated file photo, was among the crowd. Photo: AFP Thousands of people joined a march against fascism in northe Italy on Saturday, in response to anti-immigration action by far-right groups. "Today in Como is an important day. There are more th...

Libya's unity gove ment PM Fayez al-Sarraj (R) receives Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti in Tripoli. Photo:AFP Italy and Libya will set up a joint commission in a bid to fight back against people traffickers and tackle the problem of illegal migration, the Tripoli gove ment said Saturday. The...