Premier Silvio Berlusconi urged lawmakers Monday to support him in looming no-confidence votes, warning that bringing down his government would be “folly” because stability is essential as the country battles economic crisis.

The world’s shortest man, He Pingping, who was just 74.6cm (2ft 5in) tall, has died in Rome. He was born in 1988 in Wulanchabu, China, with a form of primordial dwarfism, and was officially recognised as the world’s shortest man in...

A series of avalanches in the Italian Alps has killed seven people, emergency services said. Four of those who died were rescuers searching for two tourists killed by an earlier avalanche in the Trentino region of northern Italy. Another avalanche...

he 14-car train was traveling from the northern city of La Spezia to Pisa when a rear car plowed into a residential neighborhood beside the train station in the Tuscan seaside town of Viareggio just before midnight Monday. A train car filled with...

The court also ordered Germany to pay damages to some of the families of the hundreds of victims, the ANSA news agency reported. The nine suspects, aged between 84 and 90 were tried in absentia and found guilty of the murders of more than 350 civilians...

Romanian firefighters were shocked after a farmer was spotted using an unexploded missile as an anvil. The 122mm calibre missile, discovered by the man in his garden in Puieni village, Giurgiu county,a few months ago, had been used for sharpening hoes...