Rome authorities are considering sterilizing wild boars in the city following a spate of sightings, and a deadly collision on Friday night between one of the animals and a scooter.
An Italian couple were killed on Thursday when a motorway bridge collapsed on top of their car, police said, as debate sparked over the reasons for the second tragedy of its kind in just over four months.
Venice authorities will pay for the funeral of a migrant who drowned in the city's Grand Canal, after footage of the apparent suicide sparked outrage across Italy and particularly abroad.
In the anxious days since an avalanche engulfed the Hotel Rigopiano in Italy on January 18th, wrenching scenes and heart-stirring strokes of luck have riveted the country.
Four people died and nearly 180 are missing, presumed dead, after Saturday's migrant ship capsize in the Mediterranean, officials said on Tuesday after interviewing a handful of survivors.
At least eight people have been reported dead after Italy was hit by unexpected snowfall, below-freezing temperatures and strong winds throughout the weekend.
Academy award-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is planning on putting on public show a boat which sank off Libya killing up to 900 people, Italy's La Repubblica reported on Wednesday.
Drug traffickers shot an Italian tourist in the head and killed him on Thursday, after he and his companion strayed into a slum in Rio de Janeiro, police said.
Police on Tuesday arrested two Lombardy hospital workers, a nurse and an anaesthetist who called himself the "Angel of Death", suspected of causing the deaths of at least five patients through a lethal cocktail of drugs.
Italy's notorious bureaucracy was blamed on Saturday for the death of a pensioner killed when a road bridge collapsed hours after the highway agency asked for its closure on safety grounds.
The French aid group Doctors without Borders (MSF) said on Wednesday that 25 migrants had been found dead aboard an inflatable dinghy in the southern Mediterranean.
The Vatican on Tuesday urged Catholics not to scatter the ashes of the dead after cremation and instead to store them in places approved by the Church.
An endangered brown bear died on Tuesday following a traffic accident in Italy's biggest national park - the only place in the country where Marsican bears can still be found.
Irma Borgoglio would have celebrated her 103rd birthday in September, but when police found her body in the apartment she shared with her son, she had been dead for months.
Italy on Friday declared a day of
mourning for victims of a devastating earthquake as hopes of finding any more
survivors dwindled and the confirmed death toll rose to 267.
A team of specialist rescue workers from Shanghai is searching for 15 people unaccounted for in Amatrice, the Lazio town torn apart by Wednesday's devastating earthquake.
Italy's museums will donate all money raised from ticket sales on Sunday to help restore cultural treasures damaged or destroyed by Wednesday’s 6.0 magnitude quake in central Italy.
