An Italian beauty queen reveals her suffering after she was attacked with acid.

A Mediterranean cruise offers the perfect opportunity to explore Roman ruins.

Karl Urban poses in his underwear with Sofia Vergara in upcoming thriller Bent.

Italian divers are to search for remains of a ceremonial barge built for Emperor Caligula.

Italian boat owner thought suitcase was heavy because it was waterlogged.

Nine months before Anis Amri drove into a Berlin market, he had been flagged as a threat.

Humanitarian ships blamed for undermining fight against people smugglers.

A deal to allow for 14 flights a week to Colombia has been signed and more agreements are in the pipeline.

Giulio Perrone went on the run in 1994, but postings to social media caught him out.

A French woman has been arrested for reportedly trying to carve her name into Rome's Colosseum.

Amanda Knox has written a detailed account of how a lesbian inmate tried to seduce her during her years behind bars.

Tiziana Cantone's mother has spoken out about her daughter's death after videos of her performing sex acts went viral.

Sarah Wagner gets romantic in Rome with the help of new dating app TourBus.

At least four people have been killed in an avalanche in the ski resort of Tignes, in the French Alps.

Gamers from around the world are wanting to help, after the story of a PlayStation stolen from a Wellington Hospital has gone viral.

This beautiful Italian city has plenty to entice tourists, writes Donna McIntyre.

The palace of the Roman emperor who allegedly torched the imperial city can now be admired in all its splendor after being buried

GRAPHIC CONTENT: A man has drowned in Venice's Grand Canal as onlookers filmed him on their mobile phones and reportedly laughed and made racist comments.

Four quakes of magnitude 5.2 and higher struck near the hill town of Amatrice, 100km northeast of Rome.

It took about two hours to convince authorities something was wrong after the first calls that an avalanche buried a four-star spa hotel in central Italy, leaving at least 30 people missing.

Leighton Luke checks into the Luxury Collection Hotel Excelsior Gallia, in Milan.

A former beauty queen and model risks losing her sight after acid was thrown in her face by an ex-boyfriend allegedly in a revenge attack.

The newlyweds who shared their wedding cake with a homeless man say they are blown away by the response to their spontaneous act of kindness.

A virile, muscled statue of the sea god Neptune has fallen foul of Facebook's prudish policies on nudity after an Italian art historian was told to remove it from her web page.

But not all are rushing to get their fill of Big Macs and McChicken sandwiches.

Thousands of Italians take to social media to congratulate the two police officers who finally put a stop to Berlin attack suspect Anis Amri's escape through Europe.

Jailed at a migrant reception centre for minors on the isle of Sicily the boy who once drank alcohol - and never went to mosque - suddenly got religion.

Italy is set to finalise a state-backed rescue for lender Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena as soon as this weekend.

A tourist strayed into a notorious slum in Rio de Janeiro and was shot dead by drug traffickers.

Matteo Renzi, the Italian prime minister, resigned late on Sunday night (Italian time) after losing a constitutional referendum.