Nick Squires

A newly opened playground in a town in Australia has proved to be a hazard for elderly people, with some locals falling into hard-to-see trampolines that are built into the ground.

The Italian army should be deployed to Naples to combat a wave of mafia -linked teenage murders, prosecutors said on Monday.

An Italian mountain town is trying to stop their favourite tree being cut down and given to Pope Francis for Christmas.

Critics say the tradition of gifting a tree to the Vatican’s Christmas display is a ‘useless sacrifice’ and is against the pontiff’s morals

A court has refused to validate the transfer of the migrants to the Balkan country and referred the case to the European Court of Justice

The Italian government's plans to process illegal migrants in camps in Albania have been dealt a new blow in court.

Elon Musk has called for the removal of judges who blocked Italy's plan to send migrants to an offshore camp in Albania, sparking a political row in which he was accused of interfering in Italy's affairs.

Florence acts against the rise in self-check-in apartments amid growing protests against the explosion in short-term lets

Florence is to ban the key boxes that have become a hated symbol of the burgeoning short-term rental market in its historic centre, firing the latest salvo in the battle against mass tourism in Europe

The vast coral, thought to be 300 years old, lies hundreds of miles south-east from the Honiara, the Solomon Islands' capital - Inigo San Felix/AFP