Italy's government has pledged to expand prison capacity by up 15,000 places and facilitate the transfer of inmates with addiction problems to treatment centres to tackle a long-standing overcrowding crisis.

San Francisco religion teacher Nicholas Pellegrino survives violent attack by migrants on an Italian train, sustaining a neck wound when assailants stole his belongings

A team mixing youth and experience has delivered the country's first semi-final in a major women's tournament since the 1990s

Rescuers on Monday freed a cave explorer who was injured by falling rocks some 40 meters (more than 130 feet) below the surface in Italy’s northwestern Piedmont region while on an outing with a group of friends, according to Italy’s mountain rescue corps.

The court found Monday that a 2001 decree on parental leave was unconstitutional because it didn’t recognize that the non-biological mother in a lesbian civil union was also entitled to Italy's mandatory 10-day paternity leave.

Italy's UniCredit withdrew its takeover bid for smaller rival Banco BPM on Tuesday, blaming government intervention for scuppering the 15 billion-euro ($17 billion) deal.