Italy may release up to around 10,000 people from prison, or about 15% of the total population of inmates, to ease overcrowding, the Justice Ministry has announced.

Friends of a hiker from Hull missing in northern Italy have started to retrace his steps in an effort to find him. Matthew Hall, who was staying at the B&B Ploncher hotel in Chiavenna, Lombardy, has been missing since 9 July.

Social-media users were floored by the woman's way of eating pasta in the viral clip, with one saying, "I'm offended."

Italy wants state-backed Poste Italiane and the state mint to revive talks to buy PagoPA, the Treasury-owned platform that handles digital payments to the public administration, two sources familiar with the matter said.

Some of Matera’s once-notorious underground dwellings have been converted into the slick Vetera hotel, underlining the city’s remarkable reinvention

European countries should do everything they can to avoid a trade war with the US, said Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Venture Global will supply 2 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) of liquefied natural gas from its Calcasieu Pass 2 project over 20 years to Italian state-controlled energy group Eni , the two companies said on Wednesday.