Italy

Italy orders N. Korea ambassador home over missiles

ROME, Italy (AFP) -- Italy has ordered North Korea's incoming new ambassador to leave the country in a protest over…

Robot ‘conductor’ steals the show from Italy’s top tenor

by Ella Ide Agence France Presse PISA, Italy (AFP) -- Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli's voice soars to the rafters of…

At least eight die in Italy floods: rescuers

ROME, Italy (AFP) -- At least eight people died in flooding after violent rains lashed the Tuscan city of Livorno over the weekend,…

Floods kill at least five as storms thrash Italy

  ROME, Italy (AFP) -- At least five people have died in violent rainstorms sweeping across Italy on Sunday, with…

Motorcycling: Rossi breaks leg in training crash

ROME, Italy (AFP) -- Italian motorcycling legend Valentino Rossi broke his leg in a crash in training on Thursday to…

Tsunami-sunk’ Roman ruins discovered in Tunisia

NABEUL, Tunisia (AFP) -- Vast underwater Roman ruins have been discovered off northeast Tunisia, apparently confirming a theory that the…

Venice Film Festival opens with glitzy gala ceremony

VENICE, Italy (Reuters) -- A gala ceremony and Alexander Payne's "Downsizing," a satire about shrinking humans to five inches tall…

Venice film festival kickstarts Oscars jousting

by Angus Mackinnon Agence France-Presse VENICE, Italy (AFP) -- The 74th Venice film festival gets underway Wednesday with Alexander Payne's…

Hero boy saved little brother when Italy quake struck

  by Ella Ide Agence France Presse CASAMICCIOLA TERME, Italy (AFP) -- Eleven-year old Ciro, the last child to be…

Baby rescued from earthquake rubble

ISCHIA, Italy (Reuters) -- Fire crews rescued a baby boy from rubble after an earthquake struck the tourist-packed Italian island…

One dead, one missing after quake hits Italy holiday island

ROME, Italy (AFP) -- A 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Italian holiday island of Ischia late Monday, causing destruction that left…

Italy laments migrant burden, despite French and German pledges

by Ljubomir Milasin / Sabine Wibaux Agence France-Presse Italy's Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni criticized fellow European Union nations on Wednesday…

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