Italy's Jannik Sinner on Sunday became the first Italian ever to win a Wimbledon single championship, defeating two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz.

A 17-year-old Italian boy died after being alive under sand when the walls of a deep hole he was digging on a beach near Rome collapsed on top of him.

Francis Kaufmann, a US citizen arrested in Greece last month in relation to the murders of a woman and a baby girl in a Rome park, has been extradited to Italy.

Italian confectionery giant Ferrero, known for Nutella and Ferrero Rocher, is to buy the iconic American cereal company WK Kellogg in a $3.1 billion deal.

Rome is steeped in religious traditions however few are as popular as Festa de' Noantri which has attracted large crowds every summer for almost 500 years.