Italy's debt burden is the second-highest in Europe, only behind Greece, is a worry as it's banks have $560 billion of non-performing loans which could choke growth

Chiara Appendino, the newly elected Turin mayor, is determined to promote the delights of vegetarian and vegan food in a region renowned for meat dishes.

Two Italian commuter trains have collided head-on in the southern region of Puglia, killing at least 22 people and injuring scores more.

A five-year-old girl was used to run secret messages for Italy's most wanted mobster, a mafia turncoat has told Sicilian prosecutors.

The Italian island dubbed a "pink paradise" was sold by its wealthy Kiwi owner this year, but the battle for Budelli rages on.

Rat takes on snake - and wins.

Migrants unable to pay for their journeys across the Mediterranean are being sold to organ traffickers, an Eritrean smuggler has told Italian authorities.

Kiwi wins landmark court ruling after Italian Government refused to let him and his partner move there.

It's called "abbronzati o rimborsati" - meaning "get a tan or get your money back".

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.

Erme says the locals' united stand has gone some way to alleviate the climate of fear that once existed, and the violence once demonstrated so publicly by the mob.

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.

The summer might be over in other parts of Europe but the heat lingers longer in Venice, discovers Helen Barlow. September is a good time to go.

Seven of Italy's best-known olive oil companies are being investigated for allegedly conning consumers by passing off inferior quality olive oil as extra-virgin.

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.