Tom Kington

Tourists lining up to enter Rome’s Pantheon on Wednesday were surprised as a stream of Italian opposition politicians followed by TV crews entered the piazza

Nunzia Giuliano thanked fans for supporting her new product, but making the clan leader a hero has left a nasty smell for many in Naples

As dozens of cinemas in Rome are turned into shops and bingo halls, young activists backed by Hollywood heavyweights have won a decade-long legal battle to save the city’s largest single-screen venue from demolition.A court has issued a preservation order on the 1950s Cinema America, in the historic

When helicopters swooped down on Ostia this week, locals assumed it was connected with the filming of the crime series Suburra, which is set in the seaside sub

At the end of football practice on a cold wet day in Rome, Ruggiero Della Spina headed off the pitch and towards the showers with a spring in his step.“Football

As he rolled up a joint in his small sitting room, Kevin Bellotti described his relief at Malta’s trailblazing cannabis legalisation after the dark years when the tiny Mediterranean island persecuted pot smokers

Italian police have used a powerful Lamborghini to speed across the country to deliver two kidneys to donor patients. “Travelling on the motorway to deliver the

A brown bear who rose to fame stealing biscuits from a mountain village bakery has resurfaced, this time hanging around a Michelin-starred restaurant in search

An artificial intelligence programme which has startled users by writing essays, poems and computer code on demand can also be tricked into giving tips on how

Rome is planning an urgent crackdown on residents letting their homes to tourists as the local population plummets and officials say the eternal city risks los

Italy’s tourism minister says that spaghetti with clams and other dishes “that form part of our identity” will be taken off the menu if foreigners are allowed to run the country’s lucrative beach clubs, cafés and restaurants.Daniela Santanche, 61, was responding to pressure from the EU to open up to

A Jewish artist was acclaimed in 17th-century Florence, earning commissions from the ruling Medici family at a time when members of his religion were confined t

The career of an Italian rapper and singer who glorified gangster life and claimed, “Officer, you won’t get us” in a massive hit earlier this year has been put

A vegetable boasting magical powers in the Harry Potter novels has proved to be rather more poisonous in real life after ten people in Naples were rushed to hos

Silvio Berlusconi has promised that he has joined TikTok to woo voters, not young women.The former Italian prime minister, 85, who notoriously held “bunga-bung

From his family farm high up in a remote valley in northern Albania, Roberto Mulaj can admire sweeping views that take in neighbouring Kosovo. More often, thoug

The fine sandy beach on the Italian island of Vulcano boasts sunbeds, lifeguards and a café as well as — a few yards out into the shallows — a startling natural

San Marino has named the world’s first gay head of state, marking a shift in attitudes in the tiny republic, where public displays of affection between people o

When my teenage son winced and put his hand to his side recently I asked: “What’s wrong?” “It’s my spleen,” he said.“How on earth do you know where your spleen

At the age of 85, Silvio Berlusconi has made it up the aisle for the third time . . . but this time without being formally married.In a bizarre ritual without t