Firefighters in the southern city of Bari, Puglia, pulled a 74-year-old Italian woman alive from the rubble of a collapsed five-storey building following a gruelling 24-hour rescue operation.
The world's largest guide book publisher, Lonely Planet, has released its annual list of Europe's top summer destinations, and only one Italian city made the list: the Pugliese capital of Bari.
The southern Italian city of Bari is trialling a scheme that pays residents to get on their bikes. But with key bike routes still under construction, is it really going to help?
Italian police are hunting a gang of armed robbers who blocked a motorway near Bari with burning trucks, and used diggers to tear open a security van to steal €2.3 million in cash.
Antonio Decaro, mayor of Italy’s south-east port city of Bari, has adopted an usual tactic for encouraging good manners: by publicly shaming badly behaved citizens, beginning with a negligent dog owner who he dubbed “slob of the day”.
G7 finance ministers turned their focus Saturday to combating cyber crime in what Italy's Pier Carlo Padoan described as an "unfortunately very timely" discussion.
The death toll following Tuesday’s train crash in Puglia has been confirmed as 23, the Governor of Italy’s Puglia region, Michele Emiliano, announced on Wednesday.
Two men have been released from police custody in Bari, where they were being held on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks. Their lawyer said the case had been "blown out of proportion".
UPDATED: Italian police on Tuesday arrested an Afghan suspected of plotting attacks in Italy, Britain and France after finding incriminating evidence on his mobile phone.
A new project hopes to "give back the sea" to Bari's residents, by making it more accessible to pedestrians and cyclists, and adding extra facilities to the waterfront.
When an armed robber walked into a newsagent's, his face covered and brandishing a pistol, this shopkeeper was not willing to hand over the contents of his till without first putting up a fight.
It was a future they perhaps failed to predict: two 'clairvoyants' have been charged with fraud for allegedly duping a woman out of a whopping €150,000 – payment made to them in return for guaranteeing her sick father’s place in Heaven.
The two men, from Bari in southern Italy, got quite a shock when they returned from a cycling trip to discover that the skin on their chests had turned blue. Their shock turned to panic when it proved impossible to remove the mystery substance, and they rushed to hospital.
An Iraqi man arrested in Bari on Monday has denied being a jihadist and using the word “truffles” as a code name for “bombs” in telephone calls intercepted by police.
The death toll from an explosion at a fireworks factory in southern Italy last week has risen to ten after one of the factory's owners died of his injuries.
UPDATE: The death toll from an explosion at a fireworks factory in southern Italy has risen to nine after one of those hurt succumbed to their injuries, a hospital source said on Sunday.
A fire broke out on an Albania-bound ferry off the southern Italian port of Bari in the early hours of Wednesday morning. No one was injured and the fire has now been extinguished.
Two men have been arrested after robbing a supermarket in southern Italy, only to discover the hold-up coincided with the patrol of an anti-theft police squad.
An 24-year-old from Puglia has been jailed for two years and two months for robbery, after he snatched his ex-girlfriend’s phone from her to read her text messages.
