Valerio Onida was duped by Radio 24 into thinking he was talking in confidence to the famous scientist Margherita Hack

Former belly dancer Karima El Mahroug says allegations against her and 76-year-old former premier are untrue

The physician said to have imbued Silvio Berlusconi with his remarkable political and physical longevity has died – and possibly taken his “anti-ageing” secrets with him to the grave.

An Italian court ordered €1.3bn in mafia assets to be seized from Sicily’s “Lord of the wind” today – the largest such confiscation in the country’s history.

A minority, while not saying outright they loved Mussolini, will say how things were better

Prospect of new elections in eurozone’s most  indebted economy just one month after last poll

Italy’s would-be Prime Minister has said that “only a mentally ill person” would want the job right now, as the eurozone’s third biggest democracy continues to tie itself in knots.

More than five years after Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were first arrested, they face a new murder trial

What will be the impact of moving the case from Perugia to Florence?

In theory, not that much. The first appeal has to redone in another city, simply because it can’t be heard by the same judges as the last one – and in Perugia there is only one appeal court.

A young Franciscan monk, who was kidnapped and killed by the military during Argentina’s dirty war of the late 1970s, could be the first person beatified under the reign of Pope Francis, it emerged today.