Mario Balotelli is expected to receive another Italy call-up, but injury rules out Marco Verratti. Calciomercato.com reports 22 of Roberto Manciniâs squad for next monthâs Nations League matches against Poland and Portugal â which will be announced on Saturday â âare already certain of their placesâ.

Filippo Brunelleschi left no detailed blueprints for how he built his famous structure.

Police hunt English-speaking pair who frolicked in fountain at Altare della Patria. Only the statues are allowed to be naked?

Rescue workers in Italy have found the bodies of three more people in the wreckage of Genoa's collapsed motorway bridge, bringing the death toll to 43. Three members of the same family recovered from a crushed car on Sunday. They were the last people reported missing from Tuesday's tragedy. A 200m (656ft) section of the Morandi bridge suddenly fell 45m, along with dozens of vehicles in busy traffic.

Up to 300 bridges, viaducts and tunnels in Italy are at risk of structural failure, experts warned, as the death toll from the collapse of a bridge in Genoa rose to 39, including three children. There were fears that the number of fatalities could rise further. Matteo Salvini, Italy’s interior minister, said it was hard to tell how many people were still unaccounted for simply because they were on vacation or “under the rubble”.

A bridge on a main highway linking Italy with France collapsed Tuesday in the Italian port city of Genoa during a sudden, violent storm, sending vehicles plunging almost 300 feet into a heap of rubble below. Genoa Mayor Marco Bucci told Italy's Sky TG24 that at least 25 people were confirmed dead and 10 more rescued with injuries. Officials have warned that the death toll will likely rise further as the rescue and recovery effort continues.

A large section of a bridge collapses and there are unconfirmed reports that cars are involved.

Italian police say they have arrested three men accused of recruiting mercenary fighters to take part in the Russian-backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine. Three more people are being sought. In a statement Wednesday, carabinieri police said they searched the homes of another seven people as part of the investigation into the Italian-Ukrainian recruitment network. Some of the suspects had ties with a commander of a neo-Nazi paramilitary unit called "Rusich," which operates in the Ukrainian Donbass region.

Parents in Italy will no longer need to provide medical evidence that their children have received ten mandatory vaccinations in order to enrol them at a state primary school, the Health Minister said on Thursday. Parents had been set a July 10th deadline to provide schools with the relevant documentation, but it will now be possible for parents to simply submit their own confirmation that the child has been vaccinated, according to Giulia Grillo, Italy's Health Minister, who was speaking at a press conference on Thursday.

Parmigiano-Reggiano thieves are driving producers to drastic measures, from installing alarm systems to a storing wheels in a bank’s secure warehouse; “This is Fort Knox for cheese.”

A rescue ship stranded in the Mediterranean with more than 200 migrants on board will finally dock in Malta, Italy said Tuesday, as EU states remained at loggerheads over how to handle the influx of people trying to reach the continent. The German charity vessel Lifeline rescued the 234 migrants, including children and pregnant women, on Thursday but Malta and Italy initially refused to take it in.

Some 25.7 percent of young Italians were neither in employment, education or training in 2017, according to figures from Eurostat.

 Thirty prototypes and production models that have marked the history of italdesign and, in many cases, also that of mobility. Visitors to Italian based company italdesign‘s event will be presented some prototypes that in the eighties and nineties offered solutions to the already pressing traffic problems in city centers.

When a Canadian woman was hit by a train and badly injured in northern Italy, rescue services quickly went to her aid on the tracks. But as they treated the victim a young man captured the scene from the station platform in a selfie that has provoked widespread anger. He was himself pictured by a news photographer who complained "we have completely lost a sense of ethics".

Italy’s interior minister, the far-right firebrand Matteo Salvini, has declared that one of the new populist government’s top priorities will be to “send them home”, signalling that he intends to keep a campaign promise to round up hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants in Italy. The political chaos that has engulfed Italy in recent weeks has centred on questions about whether the government, which was sworn in on Friday and is led by the virtually unknown prime minister Giuseppe Conte, will take a tough line on Italy’s fiscal commitments in Brussels.

The eurozone looks like it may be about to plunge headlong into another crisis, as the political situation in its third largest economy, Italy, deteriorates rapidly.

Italy is on the verge of forming a new government that could usher in sweeping economic reforms including a universal income scheme and flat tax rate. The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and far-right League parties said on Monday that they are in the final stages of thrashing out an 'historic' coalition deal, which could see a government in place by the end of the week.

For the first time ever, archaeologists have been able to cast the complete figure of a horse that perished in the volcanic eruption at Pompeii. The "extraordinary" discovery was made outside the city walls, in Civita Giuliana to the north of Pompeii proper, the site's directors announced this week. Excavation in the area revealed what archaeologists identified as a stable, complete with the remains of a trough.

"Is that an attack?" the cab driver asked, ducking. No, it's just another bus exploding.

Tomás Yarrington is set to go on trial for alleged drug trafficking.