An ecstatic Italy coach Andrea Soncin credited past players for paving the way after the Italians clinched their first European championship semi-final berth since 1997 thanks to a 90th-minute header from Cristiana Girelli.

ROME (Reuters) -Italy may release up to around 10,000 people from prison, or about 15% of the total population of inmates, to ease overcrowding, the Justice Ministry has announced. Some 10,105 prisoners are "potentially eligible" for alternative measures to prison, such as house arrest or probation, the ministry said in a statement late on Tuesday.

Friends of a hiker from Hull missing in northern Italy have started to retrace his steps in an effort to find him. Matthew Hall, who was staying at the B&B Ploncher hotel in Chiavenna, Lombardy, has been missing since 9 July.

Norway forward Elisabeth Terland lamented her team's failure to capitalise on key moments after a late defensive error allowed Cristiana Girelli to score her second goal, sending Italy to the Euro 2025 semi-finals on Wednesday with a 2-1 win.

Social-media users were floored by the woman's way of eating pasta in the viral clip, with one saying, "I'm offended."

Some of Matera’s once-notorious underground dwellings have been converted into the slick Vetera hotel, underlining the city’s remarkable reinvention

High-concept look at the conflicting emotions a man and woman experience on their first date winds up making both parties seem insufferably neurotic.

By Elvira Pollina and Giuseppe Fonte MILAN (Reuters) -Italy wants state-backed Poste Italiane and the state mint to revive talks to buy PagoPA, the Treasury-owned platform that handles digital payments to the public administration,