Raffaele Esposito, the 19th century Neapolitan credited with inventing Italy's most famous type of pizza, may be turning in his grave: Rome has a new vending machine which slides out freshly cooked...
On Wednesday Italy reported 475 new deaths, the biggest increase since the outbreak started and the highest one-day total posted by any nation.
In Italian hospitals, every time a bed frees up, two anaesthesiologists consult with a specialist in resuscitation and an internal medicine physician to decide who will occupy it. Age, pre-existing medical conditions and family are factored in.
An exceptionally high tide hit Venice again on Friday just three days after the city suffered its worst flooding in more than 50 years, leaving squares, shops and hotels once more inundated.
An exceptionally high tide hit Venice again on Friday just three days after the city suffered its worst flooding in more than 50 years, leaving squares, shops and hotels once more inundated.
A towering, out-of-control cruise ship has rammed into a dock and a tourist riverboat on a busy Venice canal, injuring a New Zealander.
At least six people, most of them teenagers, were crushed to death in a stampede at a nightclub where a concert was being held, officials said.
Two families were killed in the same house in Sicily when the torrential rains and high winds lashing Italy caused a river to burst its banks, drowning the nine people inside.
Workers have discovered human bones at the Holy See Embassy to Italy and police are investigating the matter. Experts would check to see if the bones to the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee who vanished in 1983.
The new Italian government will introduce a ban on Sunday shopping in large commercial centres before the end of the year as it seeks to defend family traditions, Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said.
Italian rescuers searched for survivors among towering slabs of concrete wreckage in Genoa after a bridge collapse killed 39 people and sparked a furious government reaction against the viaduct's operator.
Rescuers have scoured the wreckage of Italy's bridge collapse as the death toll climbed to 39 and the government blamed the bridge's private owner, demanding resignations.
A tanker truck ploughed into a lorry on a motorway near Bologna airport in northern Italy, exploding in flames and sending a huge ball of fire and black smoke into the sky.
Fiorentina captain and Italy international Davide Astori died of a sudden illness at the age of 31, leaving Italian football in a state of shock.
Rome's ancient Colosseum was lit in red in solidarity with persecuted Christians, particularly Asia Bibi, a woman condemned to death under Pakistan's blasphemy laws.
An Italian man opened fire on African migrants in the central city of Macerata, injuring six people before he was captured, in what police said was a racially motivated attack.
An explosion and fire that ripped through Austria's main gas pipeline hub killed one person and injured 21 others, prompting Italy to declare a state of emergency as flows from the strategic site were cut off.
Pope Francis lamented the decay and degradation of Rome, using a traditional prayer on a national feast day to highlight problems such as environmental blight and corruption in the Italian capital.
The death of Sicilian Mafia boss Salvatore "Toto'" Riina does not mark the end of Cosa Nostra, but the crime group is unlikely to allow one man such power ever again, a top magistrate and former mobster said.
An Italian man was sentenced to 24 years in prison for infecting more than 30 women with HIV, after having unprotected sex with them despite knowing that he was HIV positive, a court ruled.
