Rome mayor Virginia Raggi attends the Euro 2020 launch. Photo: AFPRome Mayor Virginia Raggi says the Italian capital will embrace holding 2020 European Championship matches, a day after she slammed the brakes on a bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games. "Hosting such an important inte ational sports eve...

Artist Ai WeiWei at the exhibition. Photo: AFP.Chinese artist Ai WeiWei has drawn attention to Italy's refugee crisis in a new exhibition which opens in Florence on September 23rd. The artist has hung 22 orange rubber dinghies - the same kind thousands have used to cross the Mediterranean to reach I...

Expensive gifts must be retu ed to the giver after divorce. Photo: PexelsAfter getting divorced, exes must retu high value gifts received from their partner during the marriage, Italy's top court has ruled. Designer Katherine Price Mondadori was ordered to retu a 13-carat diamond ring and valuable P...

An Italian lawyer is suing Emirates airline after spending a nine-hour flight crushed by an overweight passenger in the seat next to him. Giorgio Destro, from Padua in northe Italy, says he suffered for nine hours on a flight from Cape Town to Dubai. After settling into his seat, 29K, by the window,...

File photo of a member of forces opposed to Libya's National Unity Gove ment. Photo: Abdullah Doma/AFPTwo Italians were kidnapped in the south of conflict-to Libya on Monday, Italy's foreign ministry has said, without revealing any more details about the incident or the victims' identities. Citing L...

A man stands in front of damaged buildings in Torrita, near Amatrice, following the quake last month. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPA new earthquake has struck the area of central Italy devastated by a major quake last month, though little damage has been reported following the latest incident. The quake...

Pope Francis greets Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, leader of the world's Anglicans. Photo: Alessandra Tarantino/AFPPope Francis on Tuesday denounced those who wage war in the name of God, as he met faith leaders and victims of war in Assisi to discuss growing religious fanaticism and escalat...

An Italian tourist was trampled to death by an elephant in a Kenyan national park while trying to get a good picture, police said. "He was attacked not far from his tent while photographing it," a police officer who asked not to be named told AFP.The man, who was 66, "sustained serious injuries and ...

The Ilva steel plant in Taranto.The rate of cancer among children in Taranto, southe Italy - home to the Ilva steel plant - is 30 percent higher than the national average, the first report into cancer rates in the region shows. The most alarming figures relate to the city of Taranto, where a high co...

A helicopter landing is one way to make a wedding memorable. File photo: PexelsAnti-mafia police are probing a Calabrian couple who had their local town centre closed off for their wedding. The couple's entrance by helicopter - landing in the local churchyard - was the highlight of the celebrations ...

Tiziana Cantone moved to Tuscany and tried to change her name to escape the humiliation. Photo: InstagramAn Italian woman who committed suicide after battling to have a sex tape removed from the Inte et should have been protected by Italy's existing privacy laws, the official who oversees their appl...

Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi at an earlier meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Photo: Lintai Zhang/AFPItaly is not ready to pretend everything is alright when Europe is not functioning properly, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Saturday, the day after a key EU gathering. "I don...

Oetzi is a "damp" mummy, meaning his brain and other organs are intact. Photo: Andrea Solero/AFPWhen police heard about the frozen corpse up in the Alps in September 1991, they opened a criminal probe. Murder it was, but the crime was rather old -- and the ultimate cold case. The dead man, found by ...

Boris Johnson. Photo: Justin Tallis/AFPBritish Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Thursday he favoured tu ing migrant vessels back towards Libya as a "deterrent" measure that would take the immigration heat off Italy. "We are determined in the UK to help Italy. We recognise this is a European p...

A collapsed building in Amatrice. Photo: Angela Giuffrida.Scammers have been cashing in on last month’s Italian earthquake by selling t-shirts and falsely claiming that the proceeds would be donated to helping people stricken by the disaster, which killed 291 people. The Italian fraud squad discover...

Ciampi pictured in 2006, while still president. Photo: Enrico Oliverio/AFPFormer Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has died at the age of 95, news agency Ansa has reported. As well as serving as president from 1999 to 2006, Ciampi was prime minister of a caretaker gove ment of technocrats from ...

Tiziana Cantone struggled for her right to be forgotten.The suicide of a woman who battled for months to have a video of her having sex removed from the inte et is fuelling debate in Italy on the "right to be forgotten" online. The 31-year-old, Tiziana Cantone, was found hanged at her aunt's home in...

Vital Italian phrases to use at work in Italy. Photo: Fortune Live Media/flickrWorking in an Italian office can be daunting, especially if you haven't mastered the language. So The Local has come up with some useful phrases to help you along your way, from asking your colleague out for a drink, your...

Italian bank BMPS named a new chief executive and announced the resignation of its chairman on Wednesday as part of a major management shake-up at the crisis-ridden lender. Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena said that Marco Morelli, who heads Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Italy, had been named to re...

A woman looks through a window of rescue ship in the port of Cagliari earlier this year. Photo: Gabriel Buoys/AFPSome 235,000 migrants and refugees in Libya are ready to make the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to Italy as soon as the opportunity arises, UN envoy Martin Kobler said in an interview ...