Milan's Swiss defender Ricardo Rodriguez (C) and Milan's Italian midfielder Manuel Locatelli (R) vie for the ball with Crotone's Italian defender Davide Faraoni (L) during the Italian Serie A footballInter captain Mauro Icardi hit a brace and Ivorian Franck Kessie opened his AC Milan account as the ...

People bring candles and flowers to the makeshift memorial for the victims of the stabbings at the Turku Market Square, Finland on August 20, 2017. Photo: Vesa Moilanen/Lehtikuva/AFPAn Italian woman who was stabbed in a terror atack in the southe Finnish town of Turku is in a stable condition, accor...

People pass through a security check in St.Peter's Square, prior to the Pope Francis' Angelus prayer on August 20, 2017 at the Vatican. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFPItaly on Sunday boosted terror prevention measures surrounding the country's architectural and artistic treasures and major pedestrian area...

An Isis group poster in the central Syrian town of Al-Sukhnah in August 2017. File photo: Stringer/AFPItaly on Saturday announced the deportation of two Moroccans and a Syrian suspected of Islamist extremist sympathies, lifting to 202 the number of such orders since January 2015. Such expulsion orde...

A pediatric cancer hospital in northe Italy thanked supporters online on Friday after a desperate and unusual appeal for toys earlier in the week yielded hundreds of boxes of Lego building bricks. "What a pleasure to see a child able to choose and give him what he wants," read the Facebook post from...

Online clothes retailer Zalando is looking to build on its presence in Italy with a new warehouse to serve the region. Zalando, which specializes in selling clothes, announced it will build a new logistics warehouse somewhere in northe Italy in 2018 that could create up to 1,000 new jobs in the comi...

Father of two Bruno Gulotta was killed in the attack. Photo: Tom's HardwareA man who was one of two Italians killed in the Barcelona attack died in front of his wife and two young children who narrowly escaped harm when a van ploughed into tourists. The foreign ministry said two Italian nationals we...

A woman in her sixth month of pregnancy was attacked and repeatedly abused on a bus in Rimini, according to reports in Italy's largest dailies on Friday. The woman, who was of West African origin, said she was attacked and racially insulted on a bus in Rimini by two young Italian men. Several witnes...

Defend Europe, the group which sent a ship to waters off Libya to protest and potentially block migrant flows to Europe, has ended its controversial and setback-plagued mission. The multinational network of far-right activists said the chartering of thexa0boat, the C-Star, had been an unqualified su...

Beach-goers in Nice witnessed a surprising sight on Thursday afte oon as a 40-metre-long yacht caught fire just off the Mediterranean coast. Holidaymakers looked on as smoke started billowing from the huge yacht, called the "If Only", early on Thursday afte oon before it finally sank at around 10pm ...

The Mediterranean. Photo: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFPFrom the increasingly fraught trek through the Sahara to violence in Libya, asylum seekers rescued this week in the Mediterranean say the obstacles to reaching Europe are getting bigger. Jouma and Abdulhameed told AFP how they fled civil war and a huma...

Two Italians were reportedly among the 13 killed by the van attack in Barcelona on Thursday afte oon according to multiple media reports citing foreign office sources. At least three more Italians have been reported injured in a night that saw three terrorist incidents on Spain's east coast. One of ...

Italy has posted its best annual economic growth figures since 2011 with its gross domestic product outdoing official forecasts to grow 1.5 percent on an annual basis. But the threat of a hung parliament in the next election has experts worried. Improved domestic demand for industrial products and i...

British police on Wednesday arrested the brother of a man accused of an extraordinary abduction of a young British model in Italy, following a request from the Italian authorities. "Officers... this mo ing arrested the brother of Lukasz Pawel Herba inxa0connection with the kidnapping of Chloe Ayling...

Italian Minister of the Interior Marco Minniti. Filippo Monteforte/AFPHe was tasked with fixing Italy's migrant crisis: eight months after becoming interior minister, ex-communist tu ed spy master Marco Minniti's hardline approach and contacts seem to have bo e fruit. "We are still in the tunnel and...

A hotelier in southe Italy reportedly tu ed a couple away from his hotel because of their skin colour, in what appears to be another racist incident in the tourism industry. Cristobal Rojas, an Italian citizen of Cuban origin who works at Milan Malpensa Airport, had booked beach accommodation for It...

Serie A kicks off again this weekend. Will Juve, who have won the last six editions, emerge as winners again? Juventus, beaten Champions League finalistsxa0twice in the past three seasons, begin the 2017-2018 season looking to extendxa0their current record of six consecutive title wins in Italy's Se...

A file photos shows an image of Giulio Regeni at a vigil to remember his death. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPThe death of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni in Cairo in 2016 remains unsolved, but the Italian gove ment says the presence of a special investigator in Egypt will help establish the truth of wh...

Schoolteachers in Italy ea less than in many other EU countries. A new petition hopes to raise public awareness before key negotiations about pay rises for state functionaries with the gove ment in September 2017. "Our European colleagues work less than us Italians on average, despite the fact that ...

British director Stephen Frears. Photo: Justin Tallis/AFPStephen Frears, the British director of "The Queen", "Philomena" and a string of other award-winning films, is to be honoured with a special prize at this year's Venice film festival. Frears, 76, will receive the Glory to the Filmmaker award o...