Italy

Disgraced former Italian prime minister in probe for €3million bribe to Senator Sergio De Gregorio.

Waiter left Lombardy home for job in Vesuvius restaurant in search of a better life

Joele Leotta died after beating at Vesuvius restaurant in Maidstone.

MP and LGBT activist Alessandro Zan describes the foul mix of inertia, bigotry and blind hatred that denies Italian homosexuals their basic rights.

The Jonas Brothers have canceled all 19 of their shows.

Harmonised competitiveness indicators reveal improvement in some key eurozone economies.

Full Senate vote must decide on his removal from office within 20 days.

UN official blames Italy's 'repressive' immigrant policies for mid-sea disaster in which people from Eritrea, Somalia and Ghana have perished.

Congress has one day to decide how to continue funding government beyond 30 September

Devis Licciardi used false penis containing unadulterated urine to fool dope-test officials at race in Molfetta, Italy.

Miss World 2013 Top Model contestants are from the countries – England, United States, Italy, France, Brazil, South Sudan, Cyprus, Cameroon, Philippines and Ukraine.

A generation robbed of their future deserves better journalistic standard than cliche-ridden BBC 'insight', says Gianluca Mezzofiore.

Finalists of Beach Fashion contest of Miss World 2013 pageant took part in a sunset photo shoot at a beach in Bali.

Twice as big as Titanic, Costa Concordia, with over 4,000 passengers, had capsized off Italy's Giglio island in 2012.

Berlusconi will not serve jail sentence until the lengthy appeal process is over.

The UK ranks 21 among 145 nations with a health grade of 76.84 percent.

European leaders agree to take action against spiralling borrowing costs of Spain and Italy.

Two other students are in critical condition while five others have been admitted to a hospital.

The downtrend in the euro (EUR) seems set to last in the coming weeks as the single currency continues to come under pressure due to political uncertainty, sovereign debt crisis, and deepening recession in the eurozone.

The euro continued to weaken against the British pound to reach a near-two-year low on Wednesday, after the release of dismal economic data showing that the region is heading towards a deepening recession.

Though considerable progress has been made to tackle eurozone crisis, it remains single largest threat to world economy.

Scientists believe they have found evidence to the hiding place of Leonardo Da Vinci's lost painting Battle of Anghiari in Italy

Foreign Secretary William Hague explained that there was only limited opportunity to free the hostages whose lives were in danger.

While Italians are saying they were kept in the dark about the mission, Downing Street says they were kept in the loop.

British engineer Chris McManus and Italian national Franco Lamolinara killed during rescue operation by joint forces of Nigeria and Britain.

The deadly winter is sweeping the European continent for the past several weeks with many countries in the region recording temperatures much lower than the winter averages.

The body of a woman was found in the submerged part of the Costa Concordia shipwreck on Saturday, bringing the death toll in the tragedy to 17. Another 15 people are still missing after the disaster that struck the cruise ship on Jan. 13. The luxury liner was carrying about 4,200 people, including the crew.

Maritime history has more than one instance of Schettino-like captains who put their lives before that of the passengers or simply left people to the mercy of fate.

The captain appeared to be evasive to the orders of port officials to supervise the rescue efforts, according to the transcripts.

Latest pictures from inside sunk cruise ship come as black box recordings reveal that Captain Francesco Schettino ignored repeated requests to return to the ship.