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Italy's Industry Minister has proposed that all of the country's coal power plants could be closed by 2025. This strategy is in line with a global effort to end our reliance on the fossil fuel.

In the first six months of 2017, the number of migrants crossing the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy dropped by around half. This drastic fall in numbers was likely a result of a $236 million deal, signed in February, in which Italy funds and trains the Libyan coastguards to divert migrants right back to Libya.

The head of Italy's anti-mafia parliamentary commission called Tuesday for greater cooperation from Malta in the fight against organized crime, which she said has found a "hospitable" home on the Mediterranean island thanks to its shady financial regulations.

Anne Frank's diary will be read aloud at all soccer matches in Italy this week, the Italian soccer federation announced Tuesday after shocking displays of anti-Semitism by fans of the Rome club Lazio.

For the past nine decades, Cassina has collaborated with the greatest minds in architecture and modern design...By pioneering this revolutionary way of working closely with such virtuosos, it has reached iconic status in the design world. 

The Italian government won an initial pair of confidence votes in the upper house of parliament on Wednesday on a new electoral law that looks unlikely to produce a clear-cut result at national elections due by next May.

Doctors were baffled when a 21-year-old woman was admitted into an Italian hospital for “sweating blood” from her face and her hands, a condition she has had for three years, according to two physicians from the University of Florence.

The number of people crossing the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa to southern Europe has been steadily increasing since the defeat of armed groups that combated illegal migration in the western coastal city of Sabratha.

In far north Queensland, the Italian rugby league team has been sharing stories. The players come from north and south, from city and country, and can trace their heritage to native-born and immigrant forebears. 

Short track speedskater Arianna Fontana has been named as Italy’s flag bearer for the opening ceremony at the Pyeongchang Olympics in February.

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