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Sister Cristina Scuccia performs a version of Alicia Keys' song No One on Italy's The Voice. The nun, from Sicily, impresses the judges who unanimously opt to keep her in the TV talent competition.
More than 2,100 people were rescued in 48 hours from over a dozen boats carrying migrants across the Channel of Sicily by Italian Navy and Coast Guard vessels, authorities said Wednesday.
The most powerful politician in the north-eastern Veneto region of Italy has thrown his weight behind a push for independence from the rest of the counry.
Thieves detached and stole a section of fresco in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii last week, adding to the degradation of one of the world's outstanding archaeological sites after heavy rain caused sections of wall to collapse.
To get to the site of an exploratory tunnel now being bored into Italy’s northwestern Alps, visitors must first pass through a police checkpoint, then a military one. Tall fences topped with barbed wire roll along the mountainside. Armored vehicles cross paths with jeeps on winding roads lined by vineyards.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday praised Italian premier Matteo Renzi's "courage" in making significant structural changes in Italy's economy.
The fugitive mafia boss Domenico Rancadore is to walk free from a London prison after winning his battle against extradition to Italy.
The 77-year-old billionaire media tycoon said on Saturday he was ready to head the list of candidates to be proposed by his Forza Italia party even though he was stripped of his Senate seat last year.
The Italian capital has bestowed honorary citizenship on film director Paolo Sorrentino after The Great Beauty – in which Rome is used as a huge, mesmerising film set – triumphed at the Oscars.