A man reportedly plunged 650 feet to his death while trying to grab a dropped cell phone on the Altar Knotto trail in Italy on Saturday, Aug. 20.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi tendered his resignation on Wednesday after he failed to get a confidence vote behind his coalition government, opening up room for far-right party Brothers of Italy to take power.

The Oscar-winning director of "Crash" was arrested on Sunday for allegedly abducting and raping a woman for two days, in what is the latest sexual assault charge against him in recent years.

A total of 4.3 tons of cocaine was seized in connection to the Colombian Clan del Golfo drugs gang.

The killer of adult actress Charlotte Angie was arrested on Tuesday after some of her body parts were found and identified by police officers in Italy through her tattoos.

An Italian court has heard that the colleagues of a Carabinieri cop killed by two American teens in 2019 urged each other to murder the suspects in a jailhouse hit, which would involve beating them to death and ultimately dissolving their corpses in acid. 

A flight from Italy to India on Wednesday proved to have complications after 125 passengers from it tested positive for COVID-19, prompting calls of state conspiracy from passengers and their relatives.

An 81-year-old man allegedly stabbed his wife to death for refusing to have sex with him after he swallowed a Viagra pill.

The woman began to scream and swear inside the basilica, speaking in Latin and other languages as it alternated in three different voices.

Sharbat Gulla, a former Afghan refugee whose face was featured on National Geographic, is confirmed to have fled Afghanistan for Italy after the Taliban takeover of her country.

Italian doctor Giovanni Miniellois is under investigation after his claims to female patients that he can cure their HPV by having sex with them was made public on television.

A priceless Roman mosaic was found in the home of art dealer Helen Fioratti, being used as a coffee table by the family for over 50 years.

Rita Jenrette, the famed wife of former Congressman John Jenrette and the late prince Nicolò Ludovisi, is selling the historic Villa Aurora house for the starting price of $535 million.

UFC champion Conor McGregor is reportedly accused of punching a DJ and breaking his nose in an unprovoked attack in Rome.

A billionaire from Romania died along with some family members after it burst into flames and crashed into a building in Italy.

Eitan Biran, 6, has been flown in a private jet to Israel amid a bitter custody battle among his family.

It is believed the car struck a pylon and spiraled down towards the ground until it crashed into the trees.

The Vatican has reportedly received a letter addressed to the Pope on Monday, Aug. 9, containing three bullets and a menacing message about the Papal Seat's financial operations.

History was made at Tokyo's Olympic Stadium after Qatari athlete Mutaz Essa Barshim and Italian Gianmarco Tamberi agreed to share the Olympic gold in the men's high jump on Sunday following years of a friendly rivalry.

New footage of the cable car disaster in Italy has emerge from a news outlet, showing a horrific recount of the incident.

Three people from the Ferrovie Mottarone company have been arrested in connection to the disastrous cable car crash incident over in Italy.

The nurse mistakenly overloaded a syringe with the whole bottle of vaccine, resulting in six doses.

Two dolphins really did make a day trip to Venice, up the famous Grand Canal and Giudecca island before returning home to the Adriatic Sea.

The 30-year-old Italian man had been taken into police custody under suspicion of murder. He confessed to the killings of both his parents.

Prosecutors in Italy have launched an investigation on alleged manslaughter of a music teacher who died hours after receiving his Covid-19 vaccine dose from controversial brand AstraZeneca.

Four of Europe’s populated countries have suspended inoculations of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, after several countries reported cases of blood clots in patients who have recently received their shots.

Mexico's fate on Sunday appears to have worsened as it topped more than 35,000 coronavirus deaths, thereby surpassing Italy as the country with the fourth-highest pandemic deaths in the world. 

Bassetti also inferred that a vaccine might no longer be needed as it’s very likely that the virus will die out on its own, while asserting how severely ill patients who would’ve died a couple of months ago, due to the chronic infection, are surviving.

Spain is now opening its borders to travellers from Italy.

The move also hints at better living conditions for the illegal migrants who qualify under the scheme. The government has ensured that basic security and cleanliness would be maintained at the migrants’ accommodation.