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The latest news, updates and features on Italy, a country in Southwest Europe known for its capital Rome, floating city Venice, and regions including Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Sicily and Sardinia.

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The most beautiful European train routes to travel in 2025

Channel: Travel Travel March 9, 2025 By Ellie Hutchings
British teen victim of terrifying sexual assault on New Year's Eve in Milan speaks out NF/NewsX

Woman, 19, grabbed and assaulted by 30 men in nightmare New Year trip to Italy

Channel: World World January 19, 2025 By Katie Boyden
Beach of Carvoeiro in the Algarve, Portugal

7 dreamy destinations where you can get a glass of bubbly for under a fiver

Channel: Travel Travel January 20, 2025 By Freya Graham
Female Friends Enjoying Italian Ice-Cream

New rules could finally stop a 'thorny' problem in this European holiday hotspot

Channel: Travel Travel January 16, 2025 By Jessica Hamilton
The Palazzo della Civilta Italiana, aka Square Colosseum, Rome

I was in awe of Rome’s haunting ‘ghost town’ — the city that never was

Channel: Travel Travel January 16, 2025 By Dominique Hines
A man's hand holds a lockbox strapped to a street pole

Sabotage and feather hats — The 'Robin Hood gang' at war with B&Bs

Channel: Travel Travel January 15, 2025 By Jessica Hamilton

First look at UK's £12,000,000,000 next generation combat aircraft programme

Channel: UK UK January 14, 2025 By Katie Boyden
Grabs: Avalanche kills three in Italy?s Piedmont Alps Credit: Reuters

Avalanche kills three skiers in northern Italy a week after hiker tragedy

Channel: World World January 12, 2025 By Danny Rigg
Belcastro, Italy (Picture: Comune di Belcastro/Facebook)

An entire town has been banned from getting sick

Channel: World World January 8, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
A search is still ongoing for Aziz Ziriat, almost two weeks he was last heard of while hiking in the Dolomites (Picture: PA)

Family of missing British hiker 'devastated' after mobile found buried in snow

Channel: UK UK January 12, 2025 By Gergana Krasteva
A view over Naples with the sea and Mount Vesuvius in the background

People say it's dark and dirty, but I love this troubled city

Channel: Travel Travel January 13, 2025 By Sophie-May Williams
A full English breakfast on a table, with a cup of tea

World's 100 best cities for food revealed — and Brits won't be happy

Channel: Food Food December 20, 2024 By Courtney Pochin
Pope Francis greets participants to the Living Nativity Scene at the Basilica of St. Mary Major

Italy travel warning issued for next 12 months over Roman Catholic Holy Year

Channel: World World December 17, 2024 By Gergana Krasteva

Huge rescue operation underway for woman trapped in uncharted cave

Channel: UK UK December 16, 2024 By Sara Odeen-Isbister
The Pope standing next to one of the sacred doors which will be opened on Christmas Eve

Vatican to open five ‘sacred portals’ for once-in-quarter-century ritual

Channel: UK UK December 11, 2024 By Jen Mills

Assad's iTunes playlist (and other things dictators got up to in 'retirement')

Channel: World World December 10, 2024 By Gethin Hicks
Play Video Black smoke rising from the Eni oil depot facility near Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

Four people confirmed dead after explosion at oil depot

Channel: World World December 10, 2024 By Tom Sanders

I went to an overlooked European city for 11 hours — I'll never make this mistake again

Channel: Travel Travel December 11, 2024 By Alexandra Meyer

'Mobster' nun arrested over links to deadly Italian mafia network

Channel: World World December 5, 2024 By Sarah Hooper
Tomato processing in China

Full list of tomato products linked to Chinese forced labour on sale in the UK

Channel: UK UK December 2, 2024 By Katie Boyden