Italy quake death toll nears 250The death toll from a powerful earthquake in central Italy rose to 247 on Thursday amid fears many more corpses would be found.
25 August 2016
18 dead as Italy struck by powerful quakeA powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake devastated mountain villages in central Italy on Wednesday, leaving at least 18 people dead and many more unaccounted for.
EU seals bad loans accord with ItalyItaly and the European Union on Tuesday reached agreement on creating a guarantee vehicle to help Italian banks sell bad loans.
Kazakhstan receives EXPO flag from ItalyAnuarbek Musin, Commissioner General for the national section at the EXPO 2015 has received the flag for the upcoming EXPO-2017 that is to take place in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Italy's painstaking bid to identify shipwrecked migrantsThe shy children from a dog-eared photograph found in the pocket of a migrant drowned off Italy may never know what happened to the man who might have been their father.
Cheers, kisses as Rome's Trevi Fountain reopensEmerald waters gushed from Rome's Trevi fountain and spotlights lit up its gleaming Baroque facade as the taps were turned back on after a 16-month clean-up to cheers from delighted tourists.
04 November 2015
Italy's Fendi sets up home in fascist follyLuxury fashion company Fendi unveiled its new headquarters in a long-abandoned, now renovated architectural folly created by the WWII fascist leader Benito Mussolini in Rome.
23 October 2015
VW to recall 8.5 mn vehicles in Europe as Italian police raid officesVolkswagen said it will recall a total of 8.5 million diesel vehicles Europe-wide as police raided the carmaker's office in Italy and those of its sports car unit Lamborghini over a global pollution-cheating scandal.