Italy News

Sesto Fiorentino - The luxurious villa near Florence that inspired Carlo Collodi to write "The Adventures of Pinocchio" is up for sale. Anyone with a cool €10.5m can own a little piece of fictional history.

As the crisis in Libya gets worse it seems the United States and its allies have agreed with at least one way to try and curb the country's current state.

A mafia boss who went missing in 2012 was likely fed alive to pigs, an investigation that was launched into the case revealed.

Subiaco - A gruesome discovery was made recently in an isolated house in Subiaco, Italy. A man's elderly father had died in August 2011 and he hid the body in a sealed room in his house in order to continue collecting his father's pension.

Olbia - In a year of modern-day weird weather the latest tragedy reported is from the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. A deadly cyclone has struck the Italian island, the second largest in the Med, and there are reports at least 18 people have been killed.

Rome - Students concerned about cutbacks to the Italian education budget precipitated a student strike across Italy. There were demonstrations in Rome but also in the north in Turin and Palermo in the south.

Bergamo - The 13-year-old boy had been spending too much time playing games on his Playstation, and not enough time studying. When he received a bad grade at school, his father destroyed his Playstation. The boy was so upset he jumped from the balcony.

Florence - Three-month-old Ippo is the rare progeny of a zebra and donkey, living in an exotic animal shelter in the center of Florence, Italy. Cute as a button, he is drawing the crowds and even Disney wants to make a cartoon character of him.

Borgo San Dalmazzo - The corpse of a 68-year-old tarot-reading woman has been found in the bedroom closet of a villa. The body was wrapped in bed sheets and was sitting upright in a chair, with her left hand resting on her knee and her right hand raised in blessing.

Rome - On a trip to Italy for an audience with Pope Francis, Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi finally became an honorary citizen of Rome on Sunday, 19 years after being awarded the honor.