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Possibility of elections in Libya this autumn is increasing tensions between military leader in east and UN-recognised government in Tripoli

Police in Rome said on Thursday they had arrested 31 people on suspicion of mafia activity in Ostia, a seaside suburb that has been one of the hotspots in a major anti-mafia investigation in the Italian capital.

A commuter train derailed Thursday in northern Italy, killing at least three people, seriously injuring 10 and trapping others heading into Milan at the start of the work day, officials said.

A rainstorm buffets unheated apartment blocks on the outskirts of the northern Italian city of Turin where more than 1,000 impoverished African migrants huddle in rooms built to house 300 competitors at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Stylist, photo producer, and author Annette Joseph wanted a space to expand her workshop and teaching business. What she found, or — as the Italian saying goes — the house that found her, is an 8,500 square-foot 12th century fortress in Lunigiana, Italy.

Factory La Casearia Carpenedo in northern Italy's Treviso dunks and soaks its cheese wheels in wine as part of the cheese's refinement process.

The residents of a sleepy, hilltop town in southern Italy have been protesting about migrants. More than 150 people in Ripabottoni -- an isolated community of 504 people -- signed a petition to halt the closure of their village's migrant hosting center, while other locals held a rally to stop it from closing, despite rising anti-migrant sentiment in other parts of the country.

EPs will today examine discrimination in Italian universities against lecturers from Britain and other EU countries, in a case that highlights continued discrimination in the EU's single market.

Italian Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said on Tuesday his country's next government must focus on reducing one of the world's largest debt burdens.

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