Thousands of migrants are stranded in Libya. Photo: Mahmud Turkia/AFP Italy, in a fresh bid to tackle a migration influx that has become a political headache, sketched proposals on Thursday to resettle around the world a thousand vulnerable migrants who are stranded in Libya. Foreign Minister Angeli...

"Inside Caravaggio" opens on Friday at Milan's Palazzo Reale. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP He is known as the master of shade, and now 21st Century technology is shedding new light on the creative process behind Caravaggio's groundbreaking painting. "Inside Caravaggio", an exhibition that opens on Frida...

Visitors will soon have to pay to enter the Pantheon, one of central Rome’s most spectacular monuments. The idea to introduce a fee to enter the building, one of the few ancient Roman sites that is currently free, met with controversy when it was first mooted by Culture Minister Dario Franceschini i...

Italian tyremaker Pirelli on Friday set a share price for its stock market retu in Europe's biggest IPO this year, valuing the company at a total €6.5 billion ($7.7 billion). The shares will be offered at €6.50 each on the Milan stock exchange in the initial public offering next week, Pirelli said i...

File photo showing students in a university lecture hall: kasto/Depositphotos Police are investigating 59 people as part of a major probe which has revealed exam-rigging in Italian universities and implicated a two-time cabinet minister along with dozens of teaching staff. The investigation was laun...

File photo of an Italian Eurofighter jet plane. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP A 36-year-old Italian Air Force pilot died on Sunday when his plane crashed into the sea during an air show. The Italian gove ment has opened an inquiry to determine the cause of the accident, which happened when pilot Gabrie...

The Dolce & Gabbana show. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP It was all crowns and queens on Sunday as Dolce & Gabbana unveiled a collection that paid joyous homage to women, who were feted on catwalks around in Milan this week. The Sicilian duo went wild with dresses, jacket and legging combinations as well a...

Autumn is a delicious season in Italy, with the harvest bringing a huge variety of fresh fruit and vegetables to restaurant menus and local markets. Many towns and villages hold food festivals or 'sagras' to celebrate their local delicacy, so it's an ideal time to go on a foodie trip across the coun...

Muslim men praying near Rome's Colosseum in 2016. Photo: Gabriel Buoys/AFP Muslim immigrants living in Italy feel much less attached to the country than their counterparts in other EU nations. That was one of the findings from a new study which looked at how Muslims in the EU feel about their countr...

The wolves captured on camera. Photo: Oasi LIPU The wolf is the symbolic animal of Rome, a city founded by two brothers who were raised by a she-wolf - or so the legend goes. And now, for the first time in over 100 years, newly-bo wolves have been spotted living just outside the Italian capital. Hid...

Junventus' chairman Andrea Agnelli pictured last year. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP Juventus president Andrea Agnelli has been banned for a year for his role in the sale of tickets to fan groups, the Italian Football Federation said on Monday. Agnelli was also fined 20,000 euros ($23,770) while champ...

John Keats, by William Hilton/National Portrait Gallery. In Rome, the Keats-Shelley house where the British Romantic poets once lived hosted an art workshop for refugees, artists, and volunteers, to discuss what it means to leave one country for another. They discovered surprising parallels between ...

Policemen and soldiers stand guard outside the Italian national Anti-mafia services (Direzione Nazionale Antimafia - DNA) headquarters. File photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP Police placed 27 people under investigation as part of a major anti-mafia operation in Lombardy in the early hours of Tuesday mo ing....

Italy has long been one of the countries with the highest life expectancies in the world - but what's it actually like to grow old in Italy? A new report has examined how Italy's elderly population measure up to their counterparts across the EU. At the age of 65, Italians have an average life expect...

Pope Francis waves to pilgrims in St Peter's Square. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP It is like an episode of "Game of Thrones" without the explicit sex. New claims about mismanagement of the Catholic Church's finances and vitriolic attacks on Pope Francis from hardline traditionalists offer a keyhole gli...

European Commission member in charge of Brexit negotiations with Britain, Michel Ba ier. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator said on Thursday there could be a quick deal on the conditions of Britain's departure as he urged London to table new proposals next week. "I ...

Pope Francis pictured in St Peter's Square. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP Pope Francis said on Thursday that paedophile priests should have no right of appeal against being kicked out of the Church and that he would never pardon any of them. Francis said he had "lea ed my lesson" after allowing an Itali...

Tourists walk down a street in central Taormina. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFP In Italy's popular tourist resorts, it's common to see waiters standing outside restaurants, chatting to potential customers and beckoning them in. But the mayor of Taormina, a seaside town in Sicily, has now banished waiters ...

File photo showing preparation of frozen pizza. Photo: Jeff T. Green / Getty Images North America / AFP A large fire broke out in the early hours of Friday mo ing at a major frozen pizza producer in northe Italy. The blaze broke out at the Roncadin factory in Meduno, northeaste Italy, where 11 squad...

In the frosty first months of 1917, Spanish master Pablo Picasso travelled to Italy in search of inspiration for the sets he was designing for the "Parade" ballet. One hundred years on, a new exhibition in Rome celebrates that jou ey with 100 paintings, drawings, watercolours, sketches and stage cos...