Italy

Tech tycoon, 59, was among six people missing since early hours of Monday morning when Bayesian yacht capsized

Divers have now recovered five bodies from the wreckage of a superyacht – including a billionaire and his teen daughter – as cops grill the captain over the tragedy.

The chairman of Morgan Stanley International, Jonathan Bloomer, and his wife were among the passengers missing after a yacht sank off the coast of Sicily, the UK insurer Hiscox said Tuesday. The British-flagged "Bayesian" sank in the Mediterranean amid a storm on Monday, killing one person whose body was recovered by rescuers. UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter were among the missing.

One person has died and six are missing after a luxury superyacht sank off the coast of Sicily following a storm.

From immigration to AI, the billionaire and the Italian prime minister are finding common ground.

A plan for Italy to send tens of thousands of asylum seekers to Albania for processing has been temporarily blocked by the Albanian supreme court.

• Minister says joining pact hasn’t produced ‘desired effects’
• Italy’s participation in program was due to expire in March

The predator roamed the streets of a small town near Rome for almost six hours

They are splitting up following a 10-year relationship after lewd comments were aired on prime time television to the entire nation.

At least 21 people including several children have died after a bus crashed off a flyover near Venice and burst into flames, officials say.

Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media tycoon and four-time prime minister who brushed off a litany of legal battles and sex scandals to dominate Italian public life for more than two decades, has died in Milan aged 86.

Fears are growing for a former PM as he was rushed to hospital just weeks after leaving intensive care.

Rome's embassy in Kiev has warned that Russia is launching “increasingly heavy missile attacks” on the city

Boat believed to be bringing refugees from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan struck rocks off coast of Calabria

The romantic waterways in Venice have been reduced to nothing but mud as the beloved Italian city experiences freak low tides.

The results of Italy's general election could alter the balance of power within the EU, with far-right, eurosceptic parties set to helm the next government in Rome. Italy is making something of a U-turn from Mario Draghi’s premiership, which put Italy back in the driving seat of Europe and bolstered the influence of a country accustomed to punching below its weight.

Exit polls suggest Giorgia Meloni's far-right Brothers of Italy has come top in Italy's snap general election, which, if confirmed, would likely see her become the country's first female prime minister.

Giorgia Meloni has distanced herself from nostalgia for Mussolini and campaigned as a conservative whom Italy’s allies needn’t fear