Italy's Jannik Sinner on Sunday became the first Italian ever to win a Wimbledon single championship, defeating two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz.

A 17-year-old Italian boy died after being alive under sand when the walls of a deep hole he was digging on a beach near Rome collapsed on top of him.

Swimming along the river Tiber could become the newest way to experience the Eternal City, and cool off in the summer, under plans launched by Rome's mayor.

Francis Kaufmann, a US citizen arrested in Greece last month in relation to the murders of a woman and a baby girl in a Rome park, has been extradited to Italy.

Italian premier Giorgia Meloni and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky opened the fourth edition of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome on Thursday.