Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti insisted that the UK's veto on a key EU treaty in December was "water under the bridge" as he outlined plans to cut...

A heroic purser survived for two days alone on the Costa Concordia after falling through a floor and breaking his leg while rescuing passengers. Ma...

As five more bodies were recovered from the wrecked Italian cruiser ship, Costa Concordia, an audio tape has been produced that appears to expose the ...

The captain of a cruise ship wrecked off the Italian coast told port authorities everything was fine shortly before the vessel sank, it has emerged. ...

Rescue workers investigating a cruise ship which ran into a reef off the Tuscan coast near the island of Giglio have found five more bodies in the wre...

The captain of the stricken Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the Tuscan coast, "did make an unauthorised, unapproved deviation from the ship's p...

The captain of the cruise ship that capsized off the Tuscan coast has been accused by his company of taking an unauthorised diversion that led to the ...

The captain of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship may have been guilty of "significant human error" according to the ship's owners. Francesco ...

A woman on board the stricken cruise ship Costa Concordia said she thought her "life was over" as the luxury liner sank into the sea. Mandy Rodford...

The rating agency Standard & Poors (S&P) has downgraded the sovereign ratings of France and Austria from AAA in a move that highlighted the fragility ...

Investors continued to sound alarm bells over the eurozone on Friday after Thursday saw the euro slump to its lowest level in 16 months against the do...

Italy saw its cost of long-term borrowing fall slightly in an auction on Thursday morning. The country sold €2.5bn (£2.1bn) worth of 10-year bonds ...

Italy saw its cost of borrowing fall by half in a bond auction on Wednesday, as a combination of cheap liquidity from the European Central Bank (ECB) ...

The Italian appeals court that cleared Amanda Knox over the murder of British student Meredith Kercher has given the reasons for its ruling. It sai...

Italy's new prime minister, Mario Monti, faced a demonstration from members of the devolutionist, eurosceptic Northern League in parliament yesterday ...

Day two of a critical week for the euro saw markets turn negative after the rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P) threatened the ratings of first the ...

Italy’s welfare minister Elsa Fornero burst into tears as she revealed the impact of austerity measures that Italy hopes will tackle its financial c...

The strange behaviour of animals before earthquakes has often made it seem that nature might know of seismic movements before humans. However, scienti...

European markets have been trading flat on Thursday, after a brief but dramatic rally on Wednesday as the world's central banks took coordinated actio...

British banks should look to increase their capital buffers to guard against the "exceptionally threatening" current market crisis, the governor of th...