As Italy prepares to celebrate Ferragosto, here’s how shops, healthcare and transport services around the country will be affected by the public holiday.

A young Palestinian woman who was flown from Gaza to an Italian hospital in a severely emaciated state for treatment has died, the hospital said Saturday.

Tens of thousands of scans of passports and other IDs from guests have been stolen from Italian hotel servers and put on sale ...

It was already 30C at 9:30 am as New Zealander Olivia Ansari waited with other tourists outside Rome's Catacombs of Saint ...

Listening to podcasts is a great way to immerse yourself in a new language. Whether you’re just beginning your journey to ...

Italy continues to swelter in a scorching heatwave, with cities including Bologna, Florence and Rome under a red heat warning ...

Disruptive transport strikes are in the Italian news throughout summer  - except in August, when they’re banned.

Italian authorities on Friday sought to identify the bodies of 27 people who died when two crowded boats sank off the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.

Wildfires continue to ravage Italy this summer, with more alerts issued in hard-hit areas of the south on Wednesday amid ...

A migrant boat capsized off the Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and leaving many others ...

It's a hard 'ch' sound, so "gratta-kekka" - you can hear an example here. But the simplest explanation is that the name is ...