He was last seen with his mother, whose body has been recovered in suspicious circumstances. Now a race in the fierce summer heat to find missing four-year old Gioele is gripping Italy.
The body of 24-year-old American airman, Halex Hale, who went missing in early July, has been found in River Livenza, in northern Italy, police have confirmed.
Italy on Thursday angrily demanded that Egypt
authorise a joint investigation into the violent death of Giulio Regeni, a
Cambridge University PhD student who mysteriously disappeared in Cairo last
month.
An appeal has been launched via social media to help find a 28-year-old student from Venice, who is missing following Friday night's terrorist attacks in Paris.
Rescuers have called off the search for four foreign tourists who went missing while scuba diving off Indonesian Borneo more than 10 days ago, an official said on Thursday.
The sister of an Italian man who went missing on a scuba diving trip near the Indonesian island of Borneo 10 days ago has raised doubts about the disappearance of him and his two friends.
Around 60 migrants are missing in waters off Libya, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday after interviewing survivors who were picked up from their stricken craft.
As many as 41 migrants drowned after a small boat carrying refugees sank in the Mediterranean, Italian media said on Thursday, days after 400 were lost in another shipwreck.
An elderly Spanish woman spent three days wandering lost on the streets of Rome after she became separated from her family during a tour of the Sistine Chapel.
Around 75 migrants are lost at sea according to survivors of a shipwreck off Italy who were plucked to safety by the navy, the UN's refugee agency said on Wednesday.
