The body of Italy's controversial king Victor Emmanuel III returned to Italy on Sunday, amid a row over where the monarch who abetted dictator Benito Mussolini should be buried.
Italian police said they caught a criminal gang on Tuesday that had been plotting to steal the body of Formula One racing pioneer Enzo Ferrari for ransom.
In a macabre example of how Italy's notorious bureaucracy can cause problems not only throughout one's life but also after death, a corpse has been lying in a freezer in Bolzano Hospital for eight years due to a legal dispute among the relatives of the deceased.
The ex-boyfriend of a student from Rome whose burning body was found in the early hours of Sunday morning has been detained by police for questioning over possible femicide.
Almost 20 percent of Italians with tattoos regret their decision to get inked, according to a survey released by Italy's National Institute of Health (ISS) on Monday.
An Italian pensioner lay dead in his apartment for seven years until tax authorities investigating his unpaid bills came to seize his furniture on Tuesday morning, Italian media has reported.
A burnt body has been found on board the wreck of the Norman Atlantic, bringing to ten the number of passengers who died when the Italian ferry which caught fire in December.
The families of two victims of the Costa Concordia shipwreck might have to wait more than two months to discover whether human remains found in the wreck belong to their relatives.
The body of a 45-year-old man, thought to be a canoeist who disappeared in January, has been found off the coast close to Rome, Italian media reported on Wednesday.
The body of an Iranian woman has been found in a Venice canal after it was allegedly taken to the city in a suitcase following her murder in Milan, Italian media reported on Monday.
