Sources: BBC
Eight people are killed when their Pilatus PC-12 plane crashes into an empty building in San Donato Milanese, Lombardy, Italy. 2021-10-3
Amid an unprecedented heat wave and ongoing wildfires, authorities on the island of Sicily report a record temperature of 48.8°C (119.8°F). If verified by the World Meteorological Organization, it would be the highest temperature ever recorded in both Italy and Europe. 2021-08-11
Italian lawmakers vote to reduce the number of seats in the Chamber of Deputies from 630 to 400, and the number of seats in the Senate of the Republic from 315 to 200, at the next Italian general election. 2019-10-8
A landslide in Isola di Capo Rizzuto of Calabria, Italy, kills ten construction workers while they repair a sewer. 2018-10-28
Heavy floods in Civita, Italy, kill 10 people and injure 23. 2018-08-20
The death toll from the Ponte Morandi collapse in Genoa, Italy, rises to 43. 2018-08-18
An Italian judge says a mafia clan has been plotting the murder of Spia.it journalist Paolo Borrometi. Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni voices his support to the journalist. 2018-04-10
On the day of the funeral of slain journalist Ján Kuciak, for lack of evidence, police release seven Italian nationals who are accused of links with the 'Ndrangheta mafia in a posthumously published investigative report by Kuciak. 2018-03-3
The Vatican denies an Italian newspaper report that Pope Francis has a benign brain tumour, saying the 78-year-old pontiff is in good health, and denounces the article as utterly reprehensible. 2015-10-21
Dozens of migrants who were refused entry to France go on hunger strike at the border crossing in the Italian town of Ventimiglia. 2015-06-13