A severed pair of human legs was found in a rubbish bin in Rome on Tuesday evening. Initial Italian media reports say the brother of the 59-year-old victim has confessed to the gruesome murder. The grim discovery was made in the Parioli neighbourhood in the north of the capital, by a young woman bel...

A 15-year-old teenager was reportedly denied entry to an Italian music festival because organizers said she was "not a true Italian" - despite being bo and raised in the country. The keen singer, named only as Dora B, wanted to participate in a music festival in Verona, the town where she was bo to ...

Italian-American automaker Fiat Chrysler on Wednesday said it was joining a BMW-led group to develop fully self-driving vehicles, the latest tie-up in an industry racing to get ready for the cars of the future. German luxury carmaker BMW began working on the project with US computerxa0chip giant Int...

Cala Gonone beach, Sardinia. Photo: Alex MacbethTired of mainland Italy? Why not try a tour of Sardinia, land of moonscapes, beach paradises and street art villages. Sardinia is more than an island. The name alone conjures up legends and myths, like Zanzibar or Timbuktu; a land shrouded in mystery t

A Spanish migrant aid group said Tuesday that one of its rescue boats had been effectively detained by Libyan coastguard for nearly two hours in inte ational waters. Proactiva Open Arms said its vessel, the Golfo Azzurro, was some 24xa0nautical miles (44.5 kilometres) away from the Libyan coast at t...

Police have found a severed pair of legs in a a street trash container. The legs were found onxa0via Maresciallo Pilsudski in the Parioli zone of Romexa0by a 20-year-old girl who was emptying her rubbish.xa0 The legs were sawn off and dumped into the trash container the night before, according to a ...

A brown bear has been shot dead by forest rangers in Italy after it allegedly attacked a walker in the northeaste Trentino region last month, local media said Sunday. The bear, a female identified as KJ2, was also suspected of injuring axa0tourist in 2015. Trentino's regional gove or called the kil

Libyan coast guard police help Illegal immigrants who were rescued at sea off the coast of Libya, get off a boat in the capital Tripoli, in the early hours of February 5, 2017. More than 120 migrantsItaly has seen a sharp fall in the number of migrants arriving on its shores, a decline that has left

Activists of human rights organization Amnesty Inte ational hold a picture of Giulio Regeni and candles as they take part in a demonstration in front of Montecitorio, the Italian Parliament, in RomeItaly announced Monday that it is sending an ambassador back to Cairo, 15 months after withdrawing th

The first ever artificial esophagus transplant took place this year in the United States. Now the doctors want to cure more patients. Two Italian doctors, Fabio Triolo and Saverio la Francesca, implanted the esophagus, also known as the food pipe or the gullet, on a 75-year-old US cancer patient. "T

Lloret de Mar, a popular holiday destination on the Costa Brava. File photo: Josep Lago/AFPNiccolò Ciatti, 22, from near Florence, was on holiday with his girlfriend and friends in Lloret del Mar, on the Costa Brava near Barcelona, when he was attacked by three Chechen men in a night club. Ciatti di

Cala Gonone beach, Sardinia. Photo: Alex MacbethTired of mainland Italy? Why not try a tour of Sardinia, land of moonscapes, beach paradises and street art villages. Sardinia is more than an island. The name alone conjures up legends and myths, like Zanzibar or Timbuktu; a land shrouded in mystery t

Lazio defeated Juventus for the first time in four years with a 3-2 triumph in the Italian Super Cup on Sunday with victory secured by an injury-time goal from substitute Alessandro Murgia. Ciro Immobile gave Lazio a 2-0 lead with a 31st-minute penalty andxa052nd-minute header before Juventus forwar...

More than 1760 messages from Italy's office at the EU in Brussels and from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs were stolen between 2013 and 2016 by hackers linked to Russia and China, according to an investigation by Italian daily Repubblica. The cyber attacks occurred at times when key decision

A tourist bus carrying mainly French and British nationals foreign collided with the top of an underpass at a railway crossing yesterday in Rome, the Italian capital. At least 18 people were injured on the bus which was carrying many children. At least one child is in a critical condition, reports R

A brown bear has been shot dead by forest rangers in Italy after it allegedly attacked a walker in the northeaste Trentino region last month, local media said Sunday. The bear, a female identified as KJ2, was also suspected of injuring axa0tourist in 2015. Trentino's regional gove or called the kil

Photo: Twitter.An Italian toilet icon in southe Italy has upset the LGBT community. A hotel establishment in Cavallino near the southe Italian city of Lecce has created a storm with its unusual toilet icons, three to be precise; a woman, a man, and a "gay" man.xa0 "The word had been covered up but

Italian rescue ship Vos Prudence run by MSF arriving in the port of Sale o carrying 935 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean sea on July 14th, 2017. File photo: Carlo Hermann/AFPThe Italian gove ment on Sunday welcomed Libya's decision to bar foreign vessels from a stretch of water off its coas

Another arsonist fireman, this time a lone operative, has been busted in Pavia, Emilia Romagna. A 28-year-old volunteer fireman in Pavia, northe Italy, has been arrested by police for starting fires so that he could put them out. It is the latest in a string of pyromaniac firemen in Italy. Last we

New arrivals are down in July as the Italian navy ship Tremiti arrives in Tripoli to continue to provide training to the Libyan coast guard. The number of migrants who reached Italy by sea was 11,459 in July 2017, according to UNHCR sea arrivals data, down from 23,524 in June. The number is less tha