Italy

Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world” after the title of one her movies, died in Rome on Monday, her agent said.

Italian paramilitary police say they have arrested convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro in a private clinic in Palermo.

The newly restored remains of an opulent ancient house in Pompeii offer visitors an exceptional peek at details of domestic life in the doomed Roman city.

Rescuers are digging through mud for a second day in the search for people missing following an enormous landslide on the Italian resort island of Ischia.

Italian authorities have announced the extraordinary discovery of more than 2,000-year-old bronze statues in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring. They say the find will “rewrite history” about the transition from the Etruscan civilization to the Roman Empire. The discovery occurred in the San Casciano dei Bagni archaeological dig near Siena. The Culture Ministry says it’s one of the most significant...

Several thousand black-clad fascist sympathizers chanted and sang in praise of Benito Mussolini as they marched to the slain Italian dictator’s crypt Sunday, 100 years after Mussolini entered Rome and completed a bloodless coup that gave rise to two decades of fascist rule.

Arsenal loanee Pablo Mari was among five people stabbed in an Italian supermarket on Thursday that left one dead, according to local media.

The actor famously played Maximus, a general forced into slavery before turning into a gladiator, in the 2000 movie that earned him an Academy Award.

Italian voters have shifted sharply, rewarding a party with neo-fascist roots and bolstering prospects the country could have its first far-right-led government since World War II.

Firefighters are putting out the remnants of two wildfires on a Sicilian island that forced fashion designer Giorgio Armani and dozens more to flee vacation villas overnight.

Volcanic activity under Baia, Italy once heated the Roman hot springs here, making it a popular resort for emperors and other powerful Romans. All these years later, the town is underwater. LX News host Tabitha Lipkin dives below the surface and shows you the preserved ruins.

The brutal attack of Nigerian vendor Alika Ogorchukwu was reportedly filmed by onlookers without any apparent attempt to intervene physically.

Soprano Angel Blue says she won’t perform in an opera in Italy this month because blackface was used in the staging of another work this summer.

Italy’s president has rebuffed Premier Mario Draghi’s offer to resign after a key ally refused to back the government in a Senate vote. The presidential office said Thursday evening that President Sergio Mattarella “didn’t accept the resignation and invited the premier to go to Parliament” to find support for his national unity government. Draghi, who was snubbed earlier in the...

Rescuers using drones are resuming the search for an estimated 13 people unaccounted-for following an avalanche in northern Italy that killed at least seven people and is being blamed in large part on rising temperatures that are melting glaciers.  After rain hampered the search Monday, sunny weather on Tuesday allowed helicopters to bring more rescue teams up to the avalanche...

Officials put the known death toll at seven.

Starting in January, Venice will oblige day-trippers to make reservations and pay a fee to visit the historic lagoon city.

Prosecutors in Brindisi on Sunday announced that Haggis had been detained by police after a young woman told authorities he had sex with her without her consent for two days

French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Premier Mario Draghi have arrived in Kyiv.  

European stocks closed lower on Wednesday following the latest round of talks between Russia and Ukraine.