Francesca Gosling sleeps on board in the lap of luxury and hops off to explore a new Riviera destination every day.

Amanda Knox lied to police, saying she was in the apartment when her roommate was killed. This, she claims, is why.

Italy has a very updated high-speed network of trains.

Xenia Taliotis checks into an elegant Tuscan hotel and decides to never leave.

Sasi Nair takes a whistle-stop tour through some of northern Italy's beautiful regions.

Scientists reveal how 5300-year-old corpse met his end - and that the 'iceman' called Otzi had 61 tattoos.

The bloody handprint on the wall, the ripped bra and a leg protruding out from underneath a duvet. Giuliano Mignini remembers it all.

An Italian woman was bombarded with abuse after an explicit sex tape emerged online.

This is the moment a cat was found alive 16 days after it was trapped under rubble in the devastating Italian earthquake.

A kindergarten teacher has rushed home to Italy after Wednesday's 6.2 magnitude earthquake claimed the life of her mother and brother.

A 10-year-old girl was pulled from rubble after spending 17 hours trapped upside down in debris.

A British honeymoon couple have revealed the shocking moment that the earthquake in Italy shook their hotel room.

Venice Mayor threatens tourists with a night in the cells after visitor jumps off Rialto bridge and smashes into water taxi

Professional cyclist Keagan Girdlestone came close to death in a crash in Italy. He has made enough progress to return to Christchurch to continue rehabilitation.

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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.

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".

Tourists are flocking to a little town on the Italian island of Sardinia to frolic with felines on the beach.

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.