A British graduate and sailing teacher has reportedly been found dead in the Italian Alps after setting off on a hike four days earlier. The man has been named in Corriere della Sera as Keaton Emery, a 23-year-old from Macclesfield in northwest England, who had been volunteering at a sailing school ...

Over the weekend, hide-and-seek enthusiasts from across the globe descended on a tiny Italian town to battle it out in the quest to be crowned inte ational champions of the sport. For the second time in its eight-year history, the tou ament was held in Consonno, a small Italian town which has lain u...

Italian Ferrari automobiles are on display at the Corso Sempione in Milan before taking to the road towards Maranello, the home of Ferrari, to celebrate the Prancing Horse's 70th anniversary, on SepteIt's the black prancing horse's 70th birthday and gleaming Ferraris are out in force in Italy this w...

Participants hiding during last year's tou ament. Photo: Nascondino World ChampionshipThe most exciting sporting event of the year you've probably never heard of will take place in northe Italy this weekend: it's time for the annual Inte ational Hide and Seek Championship. Between September 8th and ...

An Indonesian officer removes the handcuffs off Italian Bruno Gallo (L) at a court in Mataram. Photo: Pikong/AFPAn elderly Italian man has been jailed for five years for having sex with four underage boys on the Indonesian resort island of Lombok, a court official said on Thursday. Bruno Gallo, 70, ...

Italian prosecutors have opened a manslaughter inquiry into the death of a four-year-old girl who was killed by malaria in northe Italy in a medical mystery that has gripped the country. The girl, Sofia Zago, had not travelled to any at-risk countries but had spent her summer holiday with her family...

Juventus' Leonardo Bonucci. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPAC Milan's Leonardo Bonucci and former Juventus teammate Gonzalo Higuain are the top Serie A ea ers but their wages fall short of European stars Neymar and Lionel Messi, the Gazzetta dello Sport reported. Italy defender Bonucci, 30, and Argent...

Camera a Sud. Photo: Catherine Edwards/The LocalBologna is home to Italy's oldest university, where many students will be heading this September ready to experience the culture and - of course - the food that the city has to offer. Finding a cafe to study in can be trickier than you might expect, du...

Directors Marco Manetti (L) and Antonio Manetti attend the premiere of the movie "Ammore E Malavita". Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFPAmmo may be flying but there's always time for a sing-along: in "Love and Bullets," a playful mafia musical premiering at the Venice film festival, the crooks really can croon...

File photo of lightning over Lake Garda: markus.loretto.gmx.at/DepositphotosAutumn weather is set to arrive in Italy over the weekend, with thunderstorms forecast for large parts of the country. It comes after a sweltering summer where temperatures regularly topped 40C and felt even higher, with dro...

File photo, not depicting any of the people in the article. Photo: tonympix/DepositphotosItaly's top court has ruled that a homeless man should not be punished for spending the night in a private residence. An appeals court in Brescia, northe Italy, had sentenced the man to three months and ten days...

Two Italian police officers are being investigated for the alleged sexual assault of two American students, Italian media reported on Friday. The alleged assault took place in Florence on Wednesday night, when the two women claim two on-duty Carabinieri police officers raped them. The women, aged 19...

File photo of a cell in a Rome jail. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPThe Council of Europe criticized Italy on Friday for overcrowding in the country's jails. The Council's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) said that many of Italy's prisons were "still operating above capacity", and denounced ...

Beautiful sunsets and empty streets: That's autumnn in Rome. Photo: Moyan Brenn/FlickrIt's never a bad time for an Italian holiday, but autumn is when the country really comes into its own. Read on for the top reasons you should book a trip here now. 1. The Colours Autumn by Lake Como. Photo: rglins...

A volunteer welcomes a man and baby after disembarking from a MOAS ship. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPA Maltese charity which was the first to launch privately-funded migrant rescue missions in the Mediterranean said on Monday it was transferring its resources to help persecuted Rohingya in South East A...

A view over Amatrice, badly damaged from the August 2016 earthquake. Photo: Filippo Monteforte: AFPA 3.9 magnitude earthquake hit in the central Abruzzo region of Italy in the early hours of Tuesday mo ing, Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (Ingv) said. No injuries or damage t...

File photo of an Asian Tiger mosquito. Photo: Yuri Cortez/AFPA four-year-old girl has died of malaria in hospital in Brescia, near Milan, Italian media reported on Tuesday. It is unclear how the girl contracted the disease; her family, from Trentino in the far north of Italy, had not recently been a...

Ever wondered how Italy's Roman roads would look reimagined as a subway map? Well, now you have an answer. The roads that connected key cities of the vast empire have been reimagined as Metro lines in the map by Sasha Trubetskoy, a statistics student at the University of Chicago. On the map, ancient...

McLaren's Spanish driver Fe ando Alonso. Photo: AFPThe stewards at Sunday's Italian Grand Prix were 'having a Heineken' instead of watching the race properly, according to a furious Fe ando Alonso. The two-time world champion accused the stewards of enjoying the beer supplied by Formula One's sponso...

Forensic police working at the scene of the attack. Photo: Italian policeItalian police arrested a man on Sunday suspected of involvement in two rapes last week. The man, a 20-year-old, was the last of the gang of four to be arrested and the only adult among the suspects. "The last of the suspected ...