Italy

Police in Venice are investigating the source of a phosphorescent green liquid patch that appeared Sunday in the city’s famed Grand Canal. The governor of the Veneto region, Luca Zaia, posted a photo of the green liquid that spread through the water near the arched Rialto Bridge. The patch was reported by residents. Images on social media show a bright...

New York, Paris and Tokyo may be on your travel bucket list, but there are plenty of cities that don’t get enough credit and are well worth a visit. This year’s pick, according to travel experts, is Bologna, Italy.

Climate experts say the floods that sent rivers of mud tearing through towns in Italy’s northeast this week are the result of extreme weather phenomena that are becoming increasingly frequent around the world.

This weekend’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix in northern Italy has been canceled because of deadly floods.

The more than three tons of illicit drugs were found in 70 tons of boxed bananas shipped from Ecuador.

Police have arrested suspects and raided homes across Germany and Italy in a massive effort to clamp down on member of the Italian ’ndrangheta organized crime syndicate.

A Texas-born princess has been evicted from a historic villa in Rome containing the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio.

Doctors for Italian former Premier Silvio Berlusconi say he is being treated for a lung infection that suggests he has a “chronic blood condition” that is a kind of leukemia.

A Florence museum is inviting parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit and see Michelangelo’s “David” following parental complaints that the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class.

A Florence museum is inviting parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit and see Michelangelo’s “David” following parental complaints that the nude Renaissance masterpiece was shown to a sixth-grade art class.

Gambero Rosso, an Italian food and wine magazine, called the mixing of olive oil with coffee “a curious combination” but said it was reserving judgment, having not yet sampled the drinks.

Some of Venice’s secondary canals have practically dried up due a prolonged spell of low tides linked to a lingering high-pressure weather system.

Interpol says police in southeastern France have arrested a convicted murderer linked to Italy’s most powerful organized crime group, the ’ndrangheta, who was on the run for 16 years.

Gina Lollobrigida, who achieved international stardom during the 1950s and was dubbed “the most beautiful woman in the world” after the title of one her movies, died in Rome on Monday, her agent said.

Italian paramilitary police say they have arrested convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro in a private clinic in Palermo.

The newly restored remains of an opulent ancient house in Pompeii offer visitors an exceptional peek at details of domestic life in the doomed Roman city.

Rescuers are digging through mud for a second day in the search for people missing following an enormous landslide on the Italian resort island of Ischia.

Italian authorities have announced the extraordinary discovery of more than 2,000-year-old bronze statues in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring. They say the find will “rewrite history” about the transition from the Etruscan civilization to the Roman Empire. The discovery occurred in the San Casciano dei Bagni archaeological dig near Siena. The Culture Ministry says it’s one of the most significant...

Several thousand black-clad fascist sympathizers chanted and sang in praise of Benito Mussolini as they marched to the slain Italian dictator’s crypt Sunday, 100 years after Mussolini entered Rome and completed a bloodless coup that gave rise to two decades of fascist rule.

Arsenal loanee Pablo Mari was among five people stabbed in an Italian supermarket on Thursday that left one dead, according to local media.