The ancient headquarters of Monte dei Paschi di Siena. Photo: Giuseppe CacaceStress test results for Europe's top banks come out Friday and all eyes will be on Italy's embattled Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS) - the world's oldest bank. Scandal-hit German lender Deutsche Bank will also be one...

Migrants arriving in Reggio Calabria, in southe Italy. Photo: Giovanni Isolino/AFPAn online project seeking to discourage migrants dreaming of a better life in Italy from making the dangerous jou ey to central Europe was launched by the Italian gove ment on Thursday. “Europe’s migrant crisis is an e...

Rome's new council say the city will be clean 'by August 20th'. Photo:Andreas Solaro/AFPRubbish piling up on Rome's streets has damaged the city's reputation. Now the new council says things are going to change, and change quickly. The Five Star Movement council, which was elected to city hall last ...

Vatican finance chief George Pell is being investgated by police. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPAustralian police said on Thursday they are investigating child abuse complaints against Vatican finance chief George Pell, but had not yet decided whether to press charges. It follows explosive allegations ag...

Experts think the ice fell from the undercarridge of a jet. Photo: Olivier CabaretA gigantic ice meteorite, weighing some 20KG, fell from the skies over Rome and landed on a parked Toyota Aygo on Tuesday evening. Fortunately, nobody was hurt in the incident, which occurred in the Monteverde suburb o...

UK PM Theresa May met Italian PM Matteo Renzi in Rome on Wednesday, Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFPUK Prime Minister Theresa May was in Rome on Wednesday for a lunch meeting her Italian counterpart, Matteo Renzi, at which the pair discussed Brexit, the migrant crisis and the terrorist threat facing Europe. ...

The two men had been living in Italy for years. Photo: Raffaele Esposito/FlickrAnti-terror police arrested two Moroccan nationals on terrorism charges and reported a third to prosecutors as part of a terror probe launched following a stray WhatsApp message. The three men were aged between 27 and 44 ...

The striker moved to Juventus on Monday for €90 million.Photo: Carlo Hermann/AFPOn 36 occasions last season, Argentina striker Gonzalo Higuain boosted Napoli dreams of ending a 26-year title drought as he inspired with goalscoring feats in the Scudetto race with Juventus. On Tuesday, Higuain went fr...

So you're finally moving to Italy and are ready to throw yourself headlong into la dolce vita? Congratulations. However, moving to Italy (or any other country for that matter) is often fraught with difficulty. Here are a few common mistakes foreigners make when living in Italy. xa0Making only expat ...

An Italian team have discovered a vaccine that could protect against illnesses caused by the typical weste diet. Photo: Alpha/Joe Flintham/FlickrAn Italian team has developed a vaccine that could protect against illnesses caused or exacerbated by mode weste diets. At least that's according to a pape...

Fiat Chrysler is being investigated over allegations it doctored US sales figures. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFPFacing federal probes over its reporting of US car sales, Fiat Chrysler on Tuesday announced revised numbers showing its previously-touted six-year streak of monthly gains actually ended thre...

Italy's Five Star Movement (MS5) is now the country's most popular political party. Photo: Andreas Solaro/AFPLast month, in a decision that shocked many observers, the majority of the British people voted to leave the European Union. It was a slap in the face to the established political elites, the...

Italy has sold part of its air traffic service company Enav. Photo: Luigi Rosa/Flickr AFP · 26 Jul 2016, 12:19 Published: 26 Jul 2016 12:19 GMT+02:00 The Italian gove ment on Tuesday sold part of air traffic service company Enav on the stock exchange, netting €759 million. Investor demand for the 42...

Gonzalo Higuain is now a Juventus player. Photo: Nelson Almedia/AFPGonzalo Higuain completed his move to Juventus after the Italian champions reportedly agreed to pay a €94.7 million buyout clause to wrest the Argentine striker from Napoli on Tuesday. Juventus and Napoli have yet to officially annou...

A plaque outside the offices of Geneva-based law firm Mossack Fonseca. Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFPShell companies created by the law firm behind the "Panama Papers" played a central role in alleged Italian bribes paid to Algerian officials for energy contracts, an investigative jou alism group said ...

Rome's fountains may seem tempting, but bathing is forbidden. Photo: TrastevereRM/Delilah Jay/Sean Mcentry AFP · 26 Jul 2016, 08:54 Published: 26 Jul 2016 08:54 GMT+02:00 Cooling off with a midnight dip in Rome's famous Trevi Fountain may sound like a dream "Roman Holiday", but an Italian police cra...

The P-47 Thunderbolt in action. Photo: Wikimedia CommonsThe final resting place of an American Second World War fighter pilot has been found by Italian amateur archaeologists near Bologna. The plane, an American P-47 Thunderbolt class fighter, was unearthed on Saturday in front of the dead servicema...

Just 2,026 of the country's 8,000 municipalities currently host migrants on humanitarian grounds. Photo: Gabriel Buoys/AFPIn spite of Italy's position on the front line of the Mediterranean refugee crisis, just one in four of the country's municipalities has housed refugees and asylum seekers, accor...

Turin hopes to reduce potentially harmful radiation from wireless modems. Photo: Scott Beale/Maelic/FlickrTurin is planning to cut back on Wi-Fi in state schools and gove ment buildings over conce s that radiation might damage people's health. The plans were outlined last week as the city's new new ...

Italy's parliament will begin debating new cannabis laws on Monday. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFPItalian lawmakers will begin discussing on Monday a proposal to ease up on the recreational use and growing of cannabis - a highly inflammatory topic, with the gove ment on the fence. Were the draft to pass into...