Amanda Knox's alibi for the murder of a British student could now be in doubt after CCTV footage was released which appears to show her on the night of the killing.

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.

Italy's head of state, President Giorgio Napolitano, has set in train his third prime ministerial appointment in less than three years.

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.

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.

US student Amanda Knox's defence got a boost this week when a new DNA test on a kitchen knife failed to conclusively prove that it was the murder weapon used to kill her British roommate.

'When you are someone's lover, no one asks you for a ticket.' A Moldovan dancer testifies at trial that she was with the captain of the doomed Costa Concordia.

Shouting "murderer" and "executioner," hundreds of people jeered as the coffin of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke arrived Tuesday for a funeral Mass celebrated by a splinter Catholic group opposed to the Vatican's outreach to Jews.

From fair Verona, where we lay our scene, to Mantua, Padua and Rome, Shakespeare was fascinated by Italy.

Former SS captain Erich Priebke participated in one of the worst massacres of German-occupied Italy. Now he's died - and no one wants to bury him.

The head of the European Commission announced during a visit to Lampedusa that Italy would receive an additional €30 million in EU funds to help settle and receive new refugees.