A diplomatic incident occurred between Rome and Tel Aviv on Wednesday after Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Ben-Gvir posted videos of detained flotilla activists — including Italian citizens — being humiliated in Israeli custody.
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A Roman palazzo with echoes of Stendhal and a freshly restored Ligurian monastery that has defined the glamour of the Italian Riviera for decades: Italy has claimed two places on the prestigious Prix Versailles World’s Most Beautiful Hotels List 2026.
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The 38th edition of the Salone Internazionale del Libro broke attendance records, filled halls beyond capacity, and confirmed that reading culture in Italy is not only alive but growing younger.
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Mario Landolfi, a 48-year-old unemployed cocaine user from the Naples area, was arrested on Monday after admitting to killing two women by throwing them to their deaths in an abandoned construction site in Pollena Trocchia.
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A Neapolitan love song, a bridal tricolour, and five million Italians watching at home. Italy had plenty to celebrate at a 70th-anniversary Eurovision final shadowed by boycotts and political controversy.
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In an unprecedented formal warning to the European Commission president, Italy’s prime minister has put her country’s participation in the EU’s flagship defence spending programme at risk.
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Jannik Sinner took the Italian Open title on Sunday, defeating Caspar Ruud 6-4, 6-4. Sinner is the first Italian man to win the national open since Adriano Panatta in 1976.
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A deliberate ramming attack on a busy shopping street in the northern Italian city of Modena on Saturday left eight people injured, two of them requiring leg amputations. Investigators rule out terrorism and point to a history of psychiatric illness in the 31-year-old suspect.
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On 17th May 1510, Florence lost the painter who gave the Renaissance its most enduring face. Sandro Botticelli was a man whose genius was forgotten almost as soon as he died, and whose rediscovery centuries later would reshape how the world understood Italian art.
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The world number one battled back from a rain-interrupted night in Rome to seal his place in Sunday’s Internazionali BNL d’Italia final — and with it, a shot at completing the Career Golden Masters against Casper Ruud. Sinner beat Medvedev 6-2, 5-7, 6-4.
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