The navy divers were called to take care of an unexploded bomb near a beach beside the city of Taranto, in the southeast co er of Italy. The 100-pound airplane bomb was first spotted by a beachgoer who alerted the local coast guard on Saturday, August 26th. Beach life was cut short and the coast was...

This week's paradise is on the shores of Lake Iseo and boasts stunning landscapes at the feet of the Alps. Site of inte ational artist Christo's yellow fabric The Floating Piers project in 2016, Lake Iseo is a stunning body of water at the feet of the Alps in Italy's north. Surrounded by medieval to...

Rome's water provider has responded to the continued drought in the capital with new measures that will see a reduction in water pressure at night from September onwards. Residents of Italy's capital have been told they will see their water pressure reduced from next month.xa0 Romans will have to ge...

Italy's high summer temperatures are affecting this year's wine harvest, meaning production is substantially down. Yet demand for Italian wines abroad is at a record high. This year's wine harvest is expected to reap 24 percent less grape than last year. Experts estimate a total of 4.1 billion litre...

Napoli players celebrate their victory. Photo: Carlo Hermann/AFPThe second weekend of the Italian football season, Serie A, saw the big teams, aside from Roma, maintain their 100 per cent record. Piotr Zielinski hit a second-half screamer asxa0Dries Mertens inspired Napoli to a 3-1 win over Atalanta...

Researchers have discovered traces of wine in Sicily dating back to the fourth millennia BC - meaning Italians have been making and drinking wine for much longer than previously thought. A research team from the University of South Florida carried out tests on an ancient jar found in a cave in Sicil...

Libyan coastguard ships in Tripoli earlier this year. Photo: Mahmud Turkia/AFPThe leaders of Germany, Spain and France are meeting with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni in Paris, along with several African leaders, and have endorsed a new strategy to curb migration. The new blueprint involves ...

Concrete barriers in one of Milan's busiest streets. Photo: Miguel Medina/AFPItaly is tu ing to green solutions in order to protect its public spaces against potential attacks, without having a negative impact on the appearance of squares and other popular sites. Italian architect Stefano Boeri last...

People evicted from a building in Rome hold a protest on August 26th. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFPItalian Interior Minister Marco Minniti is set to propose a series of measures to relocate migrants who are evicted from occupied buildings, following meetings with key stakeholders this week in Rome. ...

Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, speaking in the European Parliament on July 5th. Photo: PrivateOPINION: It is time to stop moving the EU parliament between Brussels and Strasbourg every month, argues Swedish MEP Anna Maria Corazza Bildt and the Single Seat Steering group. As Members of the European Parlia...

Austria's interior minister argues there is no need for national borders within the EU, yet Austria has already placed soldiers on roads and railway stations near the frontier with Italy to police all incoming transport. Austria has diverted three of four lanes on the A13 motorway (Die Brennerautoba...

The event in Rieti in September 2014. File photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPSeveral former world records in athletics were set at the Rieti IAAF World Challenge event in the past, which has now been cancelled for the second year running because of a lack of sponsors following earthquakes in the region this ...

Silvio Berlusconi. File photo: Sebastien Bozon/AFPA biopic of the flamboyant former Italian PM's life is to be shot in some of Rome's most famous monuments. The film is the latest project by award-winning Gomorra director Paolo Sorrentino. Buxom girls in mini-skirts and stilettos careerxa0through Ro...

Relations between Rome's migrant community and the police hit a low this week after forced eviction and water cannons were used to empty a square of migrants protesting their accommodation options. More than 800 people of mainly Ethiopian and Eritrean origin were forcibly removed from a building in ...

From north to south, beer is slowly entrenching itself into the culture of Italians. The vineyards of Piedmont, Tuscany and Sicily are famous for their Prosecco, Chianti and Nero d'Avola wines respectively. All are synonymous with Italy's image of elegance, decadence and dolce vita.xa0 Yet Italian m...

The Waldensian Evangelical Church on Friday became the first Protestant church in Italy to formally offer to "bless" same-sex couples in civil partnerships, a common practice in Protestant churches across Europe. While same-sex couples in the country are not allowed to legally marry in a church, gay...

A dogfight over the assets of troubled Alitalia and Air Berlin heralds a new shake-up in the European airline industry – but unless other carriers cut costs they may meet a similar fate themselves, analysts wa . Facing insolvency after key investor Etihad threw in the towel after years of trying to ...

Italy is set to issue new guidelines on refugee evictions after the UN criticised the ousting of hundreds of people from a Rome building last week, local media reported Saturday. The unexpected eviction -- carried out when Rome is virtually deserted at the height of the holiday season -- was seen by...

The bodies of three people, suspected to have died several years ago, have been discovered on the Italian side of Europe's highest peak Mont Blanc, local police told AFP Wednesday. "The glacier is constantly shifting and we can say that the deaths occurredxa0around 1995," said a spokesman for the Al...

Photo: Special Superintendency for the Colosseum and the Archaeological Area of Central Rome.Archeologists have uncovered two ancient Roman burial sites behind a major contemporary sports facility. The Olympic Stadium, home of rival football outfits Roma and Lazio, has always been a cemetery of drea...