Italian police have arrested two men in Calabria, southe Italy over claims they paid farm workers according to their skin colour. The pair, who are brothers, face charges of labour exploitation aggravated by racial discrimination. According to investigators, the farm owners hired immigrants to work ...

Luigi di Maio is widely tipped to be the Five Star candidate for PM. Photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP Italy's populist 5-Star Movement (M5S) announces its candidate for prime minister on Saturday as it braces to attempt a revolutionary shift from protest to ruling party. Political darling Luigi di Maio, ...

He may be famed for portraying the quintessential Englishman but for Italy, British actor Colin Firth has "amore" and more. Firth took up Italian citizenship on Friday, the interior ministry in Rome announced. "The celebrated actor, who received an Oscar for his work in the film 'The King's Speech,'...

Luigi Di Maio is M5S's candidate for prime minister. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP To his admirers, Luigi Di Maio, the man anointed Saturday as the 5-Star Movement's candidate for prime minister, is the reassuring face of Italy's populist political insurgency. Detractors portray him as a lightweight op...

The Vatican said on Sunday it had been forced to oust its former auditor general - who resigned without explanation in June - because he had been spying on senior officials. In the latest scandal to embroil the centuries-old institution, Libero Milone had accused the Vatican of getting rid of him be...

Cagliari in Sardinia, home to Valerio Piroddi and a surprising number of other supercentenarians. Photo: Giorgio Michele/Flickr Italy's oldest living man has died at the age of 111, according to local media reports on Tuesday. Valerio Piroddi, known to friends as Tziu (Uncle) Mundiccu and referred t...

Florence. Photo: Greg_Men/Flickr British Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to travel to Florence to give a major speech on Brexit has led to raised eyebrows. But the Tuscan city is actually the perfect setting for her talk, argues Andrew Glencross, senior lecturer at Aston University. Theresa Ma...

Designer Donatella Versace greets the audience after a June show in Milan. Photo: AFP Fashion week roars into Milan on Wednesday with hotly anticipated shows from fresh talent as well as from luxury titans including Moschino and Armani, who are battling for their share of a rebounding market. Gucci ...

Rome mayor Virginia Raggi looks on during a press conference. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi on Tuesday called for tougher laws against rape, after a spate of reported sexual assaults in the capital and across Italy. "What is happening to women is monstrous; it's a black S...

Luigi Di Maio speaks during a press conference in 2014. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFP Members of Italy's populist Five Star Movement were on Thursday voting for a PM candidate the party hopes will beat the traditional parties to the job of running the country in next year's elections. Hot favourite Luig...

Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary speaks during a press conference. Photo: Niklas Halle'n/AFP Italy's antitrust authority on Wednesday opened a probe into budget airline Ryanair for suspected "improper commercial practices" related to its mass cancellation of flights this autumn. The airline announced las...

A 15-year-old Italian girl died on Thursday mo ing after she was shot in the face on her way to school. The girl was shot at around 7am on Wednesday mo ing and died in hospital 24 hours later, after several cardiac arrests. Her presumed attacker has also been found dead. The attack took place in a c...

Theresa May will hold her speech in Santa Maria Novella, pictured. Photo: Roger W/Flickr Italy's prime minister, Paolo Gentiloni, will meet the EU's top Brexit negotiator ahead of Theresa May's speech in Florence, further details of which were announced on Thursday. Gentiloni will meet with Brexit n...

Far-right militants are pictured during a rally marking the 90th anniversary of the "march on Rome" in 2012 in Predappio, Mussolini's hometown. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti has said that plans for a march in Rome on the anniversary of Fascist dictator Benito Mussol...

The Gambero Rosso - the equivalent of the Michelin guide or the Bible for Italian foodies - has released its annual list of the very best spots to get pizza up and down the country, and noted a growth in the country's pizza-making industry. Writers of the guide noted that "pizza is having a moment",...

British Prime Minister Theresa May. Photo: Tolga Akmen/AFP.British Prime Minister Theresa May will travel to Italy next week to make a major speech on Brexit, Downing Street said on Wednesday September 13th. "Onxa0Friday, September 22nd, the prime minister will give a speech in Florencexa0to update ...

File Photo: Raul Arboleda/AFP.An investigation by Italy's police and the anti-drugs squad found several representatives of Colombian drug barons selling cocaine across Sicily with the help of the local mafia. Thirteen suspects were arrested as part of an inte ational investigation conducted by the a...

A Caravaggio painting on display in France. File photo (not related to story): Sylvain Thomas/AFP.An institute dedicated to the work of the Italian artist Caravaggio, aimed particularly at identifying his genuine paintings, is to open in Rome. The research and education centre -- an unlikely collabo...

File photo (not related to story): Ed Jones/AFP.A northe Italian town council has been forced to modify regulations which appeared to exclude gay and non-EU women from parking spaces aimed at pregnant women and mothers. The anti-immigration Lega Nord administration in the town of Pontida had propose...

Photo: Apu Gomes / AFP.The city of Rome on Wednesday announced it would carry out a fast-track anti-mosquito campaign after a string of suspected cases of the insect-bo e chikungunya virus were detected in the region. In a statement, city hall said disinfection and other anti-mosquitoxa0measures wou...