The Latest Breaking News from Italy

The death toll from devastating floods that have hit north-eastern Italy has risen to at least 13, reports say, with that figure expected to rfurther increase.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi smiled from a car as he left Milan's San Raffaele hospital on Friday, returning home after six weeks of treatment for a lung infection linked to chronic leukaemia.

Morag and her husband Ted Leeming are award-winning landscape photographers whose work has been exhibited around the world

Florence, or Firenze, is “always at the top of the most beautiful places in Italy list”, said Rough Guides. This city in Tuscany “has it all”, from world famous museums and glorious architecture to the Duomo, Piazza della Signoria and Ponte Vecchio. It’s also home to “historic” markets, “magnificent” gardens…

Torrential rain submerged the dried-out landscape of the Emilia-Romagna region, forcing thousands to evacuate

The property is part of Smurf Village: a collection of mushroom-inspired houses in northern Italy.

More than 20 rivers in Italy are overflowing, resulting in 13 fatalities and forcing the displacement of thousands of residents amid the deluge of six months’ worth of rain that fell in just a day and a half.

Leaders from the United States, Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Canada are arriving in Japan for the G7 summit.

Bruce Springsteen has been criticised in Italy for going ahead with a concert in Ferrara on Thursday evening after the northern Emilia-Romagna region was hit by deadly floods.