Kiwi wins landmark court ruling after Italian Government refused to let him and his partner move there.

It's called "abbronzati o rimborsati" - meaning "get a tan or get your money back".

Tourists are flocking to a little town on the Italian island of Sardinia to frolic with felines on the beach.

A court in Italy has ruled that child support can be paid in the form of pizza after a divorced baker supplied his ex-wife with 400 euros worth every month.

They are the bucket-list destinations tourists are loving to death. Some of these sites have been shut down, while for others the risk lingers.

Pioneering Italian fertility doctor accused of forcibly harvesting women's eggs has denounced the allegations against him as a witch hunt.

I had been working as a news producer for one of the most-watched commercial television networks in Australia for 18 months, but suddenly I'd had enough.

Celebrities are just like us - they even use Airbnb to find holiday accommodation.

An alleged Mafia chief's appetite for pizza has cost him his freedom.

Fried cow brains might not be to everyone's taste, but more people may sample the Florentine speciality now.

Erme says the locals' united stand has gone some way to alleviate the climate of fear that once existed, and the violence once demonstrated so publicly by the mob.

Elton John will perform in an ancient Roman theatre in Pompeii in July as part of a world tour to showcase his new album Wonderful Crazy Night.

Italy plans to slash the number of tourists visiting the Cinque Terre park, as the rugged coastal area risks being wrecked by coach parties.

Blaring loud music from a car stereo is now a crime in Italy, the country's highest court has ruled.

Italy has postponed voting as some allies of PM Matteo Renzi pushed for the removal of a provision that allows limited adoption rights.

Livio Lodi eyeballs me and asks, "Now, if I were to say the name Gugliemo Marconi, would you know who I mean?" I nod, and start to answer him.

An Italian woman could face up to six years in jail after her husband accused her of not doing enough cooking and cleaning.

Italian police have seized a yacht that once belonged to Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini from a businessman suspected to be linked to organised crime.

He lived, he loved, he sang, he ate. Ewan McDonald hangs out in Luciano Pavarotti's modest retreat in northern Italy.

The summer might be over in other parts of Europe but the heat lingers longer in Venice, discovers Helen Barlow. September is a good time to go.

Seven of Italy's best-known olive oil companies are being investigated for allegedly conning consumers by passing off inferior quality olive oil as extra-virgin.

Rome's Trevi fountain has been restored and the results are beaming from the breast of Oceanus.

Charming vistas and idyllic villages of Italy's Ligurian coast fuel an indecent obsession for Carol Smith.

Police found that up to 75 per cent of council employees in San Remo failed to show up for work, including a security guard who regularly turned up in his underpants, punched his time card and then promptly went back to bed.

They were meant to be part of a cunning disguise to elude capture, but the fake beards worn by a pair of robbers in Italy proved to be their downfall.

They talk a lot about the light in Tuscany, but Michael Lamb found the darkness just as intriguing in Siena.

Italy is bracing for an invasion of caramel frappuccinos, skinny soy mochas and cinnamon dolce lattes amid reports that Starbucks is to open its first outlets in Milan.

A family holiday in Italy and France avoids the big towns and bright lights and finds the pleasures of rural living and small communities.

A string of picturesque fishing villages known as the Cinque Terre fear they are being suffocated by mass tourism.

Drunken British architects are facing obscenity charges after police catch them cavorting naked in Rome fountain.