A police car patrols in Taormina. Photo: Marie-Laure Messana/AFPA Sicilian town beloved by the rich and famous is swapping sun-worshippers for snipers as the leaders of the G7 descend for a high-security meeting in the hilltop holiday destination. Drones will fly over Taormina for the Friday to Satu

File photo of migrants aboard the SOS Mediterranee, one of the ships involved in Tuesday's rescue. Photo: Giovanni Isolino/AFPMigrants rescued off the Libyan coast have described discovering a shipwrecked dinghy at sea, saying dozens of people including children were lost to the waves, the UNHCR and

US President Donald Trump talks to Pope Francis. Photo: AFPUS President Donald Trump arrived in Rome on Tuesday evening as part of his first foreign trip since taking office. Joined by his wife Melania and a large US delegation, Trump landed at Rome's Fiumicino airport before a series of meetings wi

A shopping mall which will be the largest in Europe is set to open on Thursday in Bergamo, northe Italy. The Oriocenter mall, located by the Orio al Serio Inte ational Airport on the outskirts of the Lombard city, will measure 105,000 square metres in total after the official opening of a new win

The Phoenix aid boat, which began the rescue, pictured during a previous operation. File photo: Giovanni Isolino/AFPAt least 30 migrants including young children drowned on Wednesday when they fell off an overloaded vessel in the Mediterranean, where tensions are rising between aid ships and the Lib

The two leaders share a handshake. Photo: AFPIt could have caused a diplomatic incident but a culinary quip from Pope Francis seemed to have gone down well with Donald Trump and his wife Melania. In one of the lighter moments of his meeting with the US president at the Vatican on Wednesday, Francis

The remains of the Domus Aurea, close to where the stage will be built. Photo: salajean/DepositphotosRome authorities have defended a stage built for a rock musical in the heart of the historic centre, which critics have called "vuglar" and an "insult" to the city's landscape. The construction of a

Pope Francis. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP Pope Francis will offer his thoughts to the camera in a new documentary by Oscar-nominated director Wim Wenders, its backers have announced at the Cannes film festival. "A Man Of His Word" will see the

Some 5,000 migrants bound for Italy were rescued in waters off the coast of Libya between Thursday and Saturday mo ing by Italian and Libyan coastguards, statements from both countries said. Through Friday until Saturday mo ing, coastguard

In southe Italy, anti-mafia police have removed around 40 children from families suspected of organized crime links - a procedure which is allowed even if the parents have not been formally charged. Criminology professor Anna Sergi explains wh

Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti (C) and Libyan Defence Minister of the UN-backed Gove ment of National Accord, Al-Mahdi Al-Barghathi (C-R). Photo: Mahmud Turkia/AFP Libya on Thursday asked Italy to arm the patrol boats it uses in the fig

File photo of police on patrol outside Milan's cathedral. Photo: Olivier Morin/AFP Milan prosecutors have opened a terrorism probe into the man who stabbed two soldiers and a police officer on Thursday evening, according to Italian media reports.

Unknown thieves have reportedly stolen a valuable o ament from Pompeii, which dated back to the late sixth century BC. The bronze o ament had been on display in the 'Pompeii and the Greeks' exhibition at the ancient site. It measured 7.3cm

Treviso players warming up. Photo: Pierre Teyssot/AFP Italy could be left without a representative in the European Champions Cup unless there is a marked improvement by their teams, after a shake-up announced on Thursday. Tou ament organizer

MEP Cecile Kyenge pictured during a press conference. Photo: Gabriel Buoys/AFP An MEP from Italy's Northe League party was on Thursday ordered to pay €50,000 in damages to the country's first black minister over racial slurs. In addition to

US President Donald Trump. Photo: Olivier Douliery/AFP Pope Francis said on Saturday he was hopeful of finding common ground with US President Donald Trump at their upcoming Vatican meeting, despite the leaders being starkly at odds over issues f

Costa Concordia captain Francesco Schettino (L) on trial in 2013. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP The captain of the doomed Costa Concordia cruise liner tu ed himself in Friday after Italy's highest court upheld his 16-year prison sentence for the trage

G7 finance ministers prior to the Bari summit. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP G7 finance ministers tu ed their focus Saturday to combating cyber crime in what Italy's Pier Carlo Padoan described as an "unfortunately very timely" discussion. The

People gather near the site where Berlin truck attacker Anis Amri was killed in Milan on December 23, 2016. File photo: Marco Bertorello/AFP Italy has expelled a Tunisian suspected of ties to Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri, the interi

Bova Marina, one of the affected towns. Photo: Luca Galli/Flickr The Italian gove ment on Thursday dissolved four town councils due to evidence of mafia infiltration. The affected towns were Laureana di Borrello, Bova Marina, and Gioia Taura