A Catholic priest has been arrested in Italy on suspicion of dealing drugs at a party.

The good folk of Tuscany are offering lessons in manners to wealthy Russian tourists.

Italian prosecutors pushing for Amanda Knox’s extradition from the US claim they have evidence of her extensive links to cocaine dealers in Perugia, it has been reported.

The former boyfriend of Amanda Knox has cast doubt on her innocence in the murder of the British student Meredith Kercher.

The former boyfriend of Amanda Knox has cast doubt on her innocence in the murder of the British student Merdeith Kercher.

A young New Zealander is rubbing shoulders with some of the stars of the World Cup - and living the life of training and discipline that took them there.

It was a clash that pitted one of the finest journalists of his generation against a now-disgraced former world leader, but this was no modern-day Frost-Nixon.

Prince Harry has paid tribute to the terrible price paid by Kiwis who fought at the Battle of Monte Cassino in the Second World War.

Paul Abercrombie gets to grips with Venice's watery warrens during a once-in-a-lifetime rowing lesson.

Chris Wiltshire feasts until he can feast no more in the region known as the bread basket of Italy.

For more than half a century it has been seen as one of the most potent landmarks of Italy's fascist era.

The leasehold of a Venetian island described as one of the most haunted places in Italy is to be auctioned next month as the state desperately seeks to raise revenue.

An Italian woman having IVF treatment is carrying twins that are not her own following an apparent hospital mix-up.

The number of migrants sailing from Africa to Italy resembles a "biblical exodus", the head of the Italian navy said yesterday.

Memories come flooding back when Susan Buckland revisits a city of grace and grandeur.

The combined turnover of Italy's Mafia groups has now overtaken that of the European Union's budget as the Mob spreads its tendrils overseas.

There has been much water under the Bridge of Sighs since Napoleon Bonaparte marched into Venice, ending 1100 years of independence in the city state.

Live like the royals did - if only for a night. Lynn O'Rourke Hayes scopes out cool castles.

Among the ruins, Russell Maclennan-Jones imagines life in ancient Ostia.

An Italian MP has “blacked up” to deliver a staggering anti-immigration rant in the country’s parliament.

Herald guest editor John Kirwan's guide to getting the best out of his old homeland.

Jared Savage enjoy a new view from his room each morning as he cruises the Mediterranean.

The Italian Senate has expelled three-time ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi from Parliament over his tax fraud conviction, ending, for now, his two-decade legislative run but not his political career.

An Italian prosecutor has suggested Amanda Knox may have killed her British roomate over an argument about an unflushed toilet.

Italy wants to buy back a Mediterranean island owned by New Zealand businessman Michael Harte, who bought it just two months ago.

The prosecutor seeking to reinstate the conviction of Amanda Knox for the murder of her roommate has urged an appeals court not to repeat mistakes he says were made by the court that freed her.

The Mediterranean island of Sardinia, prized by the jet-set for its white sand beaches and crystal-clear seas, became a flood-ravaged mud bath after a freak torrential rainstorm killed at least 17 people, downed bridges and swept away cars.

Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's political heir yesterday pledged to keep Italy's fragile coalition Government afloat, now that he has split with the media mogul and formed a rival centre-right party.

A witness in the Costa Concordia shipwreck trial has described how the captain jumped aboard a lifeboat, testifying how the commander wasn't the last to abandon the rapidly capsizing luxury cruise ship.