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Real Madrid claim Champions League crown on penalties in Milan

Real Madrid have won the Champions League beating Atlético Madrid in a penalty shoot out in the San Siro in Milan.

29/05/2016

Italy

Migrants are not a danger but are in danger - Pope

Italian youngsters mingle with migrant children in Rome as the Vatican tries to highlight the plight of those hoping to find a new life in Europe.

29/05/2016

Sport

Champions League preview: revenge in the air as Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid prepare to do battle

A club from Madrid will rule Europe come Saturday night but will it be Real or Atletico.

28/05/2016

Sport

Giro d'Italia: Nibali wins stage 19 as Chaves takes over race lead

Overnight leader Steven Kruijswijk lost his race lead following a disastrous stage 19 of the Giro d’Italia on Friday.

27/05/2016

Culture news

Banksy's work on display in Rome

Works by the artist known as Banksy are going on display for the first time in Rome’s Palazzo Cipolla Museum.

27/05/2016

Culture news

Former Hollywood stars' classic cars on show in Italy

Classic cars that once belonged to Hollywood greats were among dozens of vintage vehicles recently on display on the shores of Italy’s Lake…

26/05/2016

Italy

Awesome Mount Etna erupts again!

Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, has been at it again, spewing red torrents of lava into the sky and sporadic activity continued on Thursday.

26/05/2016

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Italy: giant hole swallows cars in Florence

A 200-metre-long hole opened up along the Arno river bank in Florence, near the famous Ponte Vecchio.

26/05/2016

Italy

Overcrowded fishing boat capsizes off Italian coast, 500 migrants rescued

The Italian navy has released distressing images of an overcrowded fishing boat capsizing off the Libyan coast sending hundreds of migrants tumbling into the…

25/05/2016

Italy

Road collapse plunges parked cars into Florence underwater pipeline

A road collapse has plunged a row of parked cars into an underground water pipeline.

25/05/2016

Next Series

Dealing with danger: busy geniuses and watchful robots

In this edition of Futuris, we look at wasps, hawks and donkeys – not animals but special robots which can help save people in danger in the Alps.

23/05/2016

Next Series

Takeaway: watchful robots

Obedient wasps, somehow stubborn donkeys, watchfull hawks, surrounded by Alpine peaks… In fact, they are robots developed in the framework of the

23/05/2016

Sport

Spills and thrills as Lorenzo takes lead in MotoGP

MotoGP Italy Last-lap thriller Spanish rider Jorge Lorenzo took the lead in the MotoGP world championship standings with his second win of the year in France earlier this…

22/05/2016

Sport

Nieve gets Giro consolation win for Team Sky

Mikel Nieve won the Friday stage of the Giro d’Italia, a balm on the wounds of Team Sky for whom this is proving to be a disappointing Giro, after the withdrawal of rider Mikel Landa crippled the…

20/05/2016

Italy

World's longest pizza created in Naples measuring 1.8 km

19/05/2016

Italy

Italian political cause-fighter Marco Pannella dies

Firebrand former Italian Radical Party leader Marco Pannella has died at the age of 86.

19/05/2016

Italy

Italian region votes to scrap anti-Russian sanctions

A council in Italy’s northeastern Veneto region, is urging its national government to abandon EU international policy and recognise Crimea as being part of…

19/05/2016

Italy

Tough sentences demanded for suspected people smugglers

Prosecutors in Sicily have demanded an 18-year jail sentence for a man accused of captaining an overloaded migrant boat that sank in April. Up to 800

18/05/2016

Italy

Rome's newest metro station will incorporate newly discovered ruins

The Italian city of Rome is to open its first archaeological metro station. Ancient Roman ruins and mosaics have been discovered during work on the

17/05/2016

Sport

Chelsea-bound Conte cleared over match-fixing scandal

Incoming Chelsea manager Antonio Conte has been cleared by an Italian court of any wrongdoing in a match fixing scandal dating back to 2011. The

16/05/2016

Next Series

The travelling greenhouse

Can a small greenhouse help to guarantee the sustainability of European forests? To find out, the Futuris team travelled to northern Italy. What

16/05/2016

Next Series

Takeaway: the traveling greenhouse

16/05/2016

Sport

Giro d'Italia: Brambilla solos into pink in stage eight victory

Home favourite Gianluca Brambilla has seized the Giro d’Italia leader’s jersey from a struggling Tom Dumoulin, after a stunning ride on stage eight

14/05/2016

Italy

Internet reimagined in Italian village

The rural Italian village of Civitacampomarano was largely bypassed by the technologies of the 21st century. Until artist Biancoshock arrived. Under

13/05/2016

Italy

More refugees now arriving in Italy than in Greece

A thousand people rescued at sea were set to land in Italy on Friday. For the first time in a year, more refugees and migrants are arriving there than in Greece.

13/05/2016

Italy

Italy: approving same-sex civil unions 'a huge step forward,' say right groups

Italy’s lower house of parliament has approved a bill allowing same-sex civil unions. Gay couples will now be given the same legal protections as

11/05/2016