A court in Italy has ruled that child support can be paid in the form of pizza after a divorced baker supplied his ex-wife with 400 euros worth every month.

They are the bucket-list destinations tourists are loving to death. Some of these sites have been shut down, while for others the risk lingers.

Pioneering Italian fertility doctor accused of forcibly harvesting women's eggs has denounced the allegations against him as a witch hunt.

I had been working as a news producer for one of the most-watched commercial television networks in Australia for 18 months, but suddenly I'd had enough.

Celebrities are just like us - they even use Airbnb to find holiday accommodation.

An alleged Mafia chief's appetite for pizza has cost him his freedom.

Hundreds of refugees are believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Europe, one year after a similar tragedy.

Fausto Mottalini, 65, is out to tell the world that a human being can live with a few simple things: food, shelter and above all, uncontaminated nature.

Fried cow brains might not be to everyone's taste, but more people may sample the Florentine speciality now.

Italy plans to slash the number of tourists visiting the Cinque Terre park, as the rugged coastal area risks being wrecked by coach parties.

Blaring loud music from a car stereo is now a crime in Italy, the country's highest court has ruled.

Italy has postponed voting as some allies of PM Matteo Renzi pushed for the removal of a provision that allows limited adoption rights.

Livio Lodi eyeballs me and asks, "Now, if I were to say the name Gugliemo Marconi, would you know who I mean?" I nod, and start to answer him.

An Italian woman could face up to six years in jail after her husband accused her of not doing enough cooking and cleaning.

Italian police have seized a yacht that once belonged to Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini from a businessman suspected to be linked to organised crime.

Ewan McDonald sails (not cruises) on a yacht (not a ship) across the Mediterranean from Rome to points east and south.

In one region in Italy, some are rethinking the future of tourism, writes Venetia Sherson.

He lived, he loved, he sang, he ate. Ewan McDonald hangs out in Luciano Pavarotti's modest retreat in northern Italy.

Rome's Trevi fountain has been restored and the results are beaming from the breast of Oceanus.

Charming vistas and idyllic villages of Italy's Ligurian coast fuel an indecent obsession for Carol Smith.

Police found that up to 75 per cent of council employees in San Remo failed to show up for work, including a security guard who regularly turned up in his underpants, punched his time card and then promptly went back to bed.

They were meant to be part of a cunning disguise to elude capture, but the fake beards worn by a pair of robbers in Italy proved to be their downfall.

They talk a lot about the light in Tuscany, but Michael Lamb found the darkness just as intriguing in Siena.

Italy is bracing for an invasion of caramel frappuccinos, skinny soy mochas and cinnamon dolce lattes amid reports that Starbucks is to open its first outlets in Milan.

A family holiday in Italy and France avoids the big towns and bright lights and finds the pleasures of rural living and small communities.

A string of picturesque fishing villages known as the Cinque Terre fear they are being suffocated by mass tourism.

Drunken British architects are facing obscenity charges after police catch them cavorting naked in Rome fountain.

A three-hour rail trip across Sicily gives Linda Herrick a glimpse of its ghost towns.

An Auckland University lecturer has won a major international film award with his film Free in Deed.

Venice's water cabbies steer Kevin Pilley to some of their favourite watering holes.