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The police Rome is hunting for two tourists who washed themselves in an antique fountain and even went out of their clothes.

Rescue workers found three hikers alive after the drama in a ravine in Calabria. They turned out to be camping north of the crash site. The young people of 21, 22 and 23 did not have access to their mobile phones there, local sources say to the ANSA news agency.

An Italian coast guard ship with 177 rescued migrants on board has arrived in the port of Catania. However, migrants are only allowed to disembark if other EU member states are prepared to receive them, say sources within the Ministry of the Interior against ANSA news agency.

At least five hikers were killed after they were dragged along by rising water in the south of Italy. The victims were in a ravine in Calabria. Heavy rainfall caused the water to rise in a stream, reports Italian media.

A pilot from Finnish company Finnair has appeared drunk at Helsinki airport this week. Colleagues noticed that the man had drunk and switched on the airport police.

Italian rescue workers found the body of a 30-year-old man under the rubble of the collapsed bridge in Genoa. That reports the Italian state broadcaster RAI. The number of deaths has risen to 42. The death toll was not yet official, because the bodies have not yet been identified.

The Italian government is enraged by the Italian clothing manufacturer Luciano Benetton in connection with the collapsed Morandi bridge in Genoa. This is the owner of the A10 at Genoa and the Morandi bridge after the motorways in Italy were privatized in 1999.

The Vatican has responded with dismay to the reports of long-term and large-scale child abuse by Catholic clergy in the United States.

An earthquake shook the inhabitants of the Italian region of Molise on the Adriatic coast on Thursday evening. According to the seismological service, the shock had a force of 5.2. There are no reports of victims or damage.

The EU has repeatedly urged Italy to invest more and more targeted money in the country's infrastructure. Italy will also receive 2.5 billion euros from the EU structural funds between 2014 and 2020 for the improvement of road and rail. In April, the European Commission approved an investment plan of 8.5 billion euros, including for the approach to motorways in and around Genoa.

The manager of the Italian motorway A10 along which the crucial bridge in Genoa collapsed, is responsible for the disaster. This is what Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said.

At the brigade in the Italian city of Genoa, no Dutch people are involved. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports this Wednesday.

The Italian minister Danilo Toninelli (Traffic) thinks that there should be headlines at the operator of the disaster bridge in Genoa. 'In the first place, the top of Autostrade per l'Italia has to get on', said the minister. He warned that the company can also expect a substantial additional tax.

In Brussels, a solution is being worked behind the scenes for the refugees aboard the rescue ship Aquarius. According to a spokeswoman for the European Commission, the EU administration is 'in contact with a number of member states' that the committee 'approached' about the matter. She did not want to say which countries are involved.

After halting for weeks, the ship Aquarius has rescued 141 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean. About 25 nautical miles from the coast of Libya, 25 migrants were first taken from a small wooden boat. In the same area the crew of the Aquarius later took another 116 people on board.

The Italian police found more than 20 tons of hashish in a ship's two fuel tanks with a street value of 150 to 200 million euros. The eleven passengers, all from Montenegro, have been arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling.

Anyone who wants to steal a pot of that wonderful beach sand on holiday in Sardinia will get the lid on the nose from the Italian authorities. In order to protect the nature of the island, the fines for this crime have been increased to 3000 euros.

In the accident on the motorway near the Italian city of Bologna where a tank truck exploded on Monday, it turns out that a dead person has died and not two, as previously reported.

In the Italian Alps a man was killed after a landslide. A woman who was in the car with him is still missing.

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the discredited cardinal Theodore McCarrick. Several men have accused the former archbishop of Washington of sexual abuse.

The popular Italian Roman Catholic periodical Famiglia Cristiana (Christian Family) has defied Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini by comparing him with the devil.

The Italian hat maker Borsalino is making a new start. The company that went bankrupt last year, has been taken over by the Swiss investor Phillipe Camperio, reports Italian media.

A new Italian Member of Parliament finds it superfluous to sit in parliament and prefers to sail around in his sailing boat. Andrea Mura was elected as a representative of the populist Five Star movement this year.

Hundreds of migrants have landed in Italy on Monday. The Italian authorities gave the green light to this, after other European countries had shown their willingness to absorb more than half of the 450 or so asylum seekers.

In the Mediterranean, 450 migrants were rescued from a wooden boat that sailed near the Italian island of Linosa. They were transferred on Saturday morning to a ship of the Italian police and a Frontex ship, the EU agency that coordinates controls at the external borders of the European Union.

Italy has again refused a ship with refugees. It is a ship with 450 migrants on board. Because the vessel was already in the waters of Malta before, Rome finds that the refugees have to go ashore there.

Italy refused a cargo ship with 66 refugees on board. The ship had removed the refugees off the coast of Libya on Monday, but was denied permission to sail to Italy.

Relatives of Beatrice Romo (39) from the Californian Riverside say that the woman was shot by her own cousin. The mother of five children wanted to break a fight during a babyshower when it got out of hand.

World Animal Protection wants all fishnets to be provided with a personal label in 2025. The international animal protection organization calls on the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations at the start of an international meeting in Rome to make the labeling of fishing nets compulsory in the fight against the massive death of animals through the nets.

The countries that participate in missions with naval vessels in which migrants in need are taken on board should simply take those people home. Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said this Sunday, Italian media reported.