Prosecutors in Italy have opened an investigation into shipwreck and manslaughter after a superyacht capsized during a storm off the coast of Sicily, killing seven people onboard.
Italian rescuers brought ashore the body of the final missing person who was on a superyacht that sunk off the coast of Sicily, thought to be Mike Lynch's 18-year-old daughter Hannah.
Experts have pointed to the vessel's huge mast as being a possible factor in the disaster as divers continue to search for six people trapped in its hull.
The search is on for a young woman who was filmed kissing, humping and grinding against a statue of Bacchus, the god of wine and sensuality, in Florence over the weekend.
Speaking on Italian TV, Knox said she was surprised by the court's decision in light of a European court ruling that police had violated her human rights.
Amanda Knox will be back in an Italian courtroom this week to defend herself against a 16-year-old slander conviction that she hopes to beat once and for all.
Carlos Acutis was a computer prodigy who became knowns as 'God's influencer' for his work spreading Roman Catholic teaching online, before his sudden death from leukemia in 2006.
The Vatican has tightened up its guidance on recognising supernatural phenomena such as apparitions of the Virgin Mary and seemingly blood-soaked crucifixes.
After mounting concern that the Torre Garisenda in Bologna might be on the verge of collapse, a plan has been hatched to save it using the same equipment that shored up the Tower of Pisa.
Survivors rescued from a deflating rubber dinghy in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 60 people who departed Libya with them more than a week ago perished during the journey.
Italian police are investigating a bizarre alleged murder involving spaghetti, an elderly woman and young niece who allegedly wanted to collect a $775,000 inheritance.
A Catholic priest who married a teenager after leaving the country with her this summer has been removed from the priesthood, church officials announced on Friday.
An Aussie couple who have snapped up multiple dirt cheap homes in Italy are now inspiring others follow their dreams of buying property in the European nation.
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