Now playing Next Italy Italian President Giorgio Napolitano resigns Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has handed in his resignation as head of state. The government accepted the 89-year-old’s resignation on 14/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Napolitano's six-decade winning streak Giorgio Napolitano was the only re-elected President in the history of the Italian Republic, sworn in a second time on 22nd April, 2013 (the first 13/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Italian police uncover huge fake euro banknote factory near Naples Italian police have made one of their biggest seizures of fake currency for years. They say unfinished 50-euro banknotes worth more than 50 million 09/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Massive avalanche in South Tyrol engulfs 30 skiers In Italy’s South Tyrol region an enormous avalanche engulfed a group of 30 skiers leaving one man dead and another seriously injured. The huge mass 07/01/2015
Now playing Next World News Epiphany celebrated in Rome, Istanbul and Sofia Pope Francis has celebrated Epiphany with a mass at St Peter’s Basilica. The day marks the revelation of God the Son as a human being and the time 06/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Fire hinders search for victims of Norman Atlantic Ferry Fierce heat and thick smoke continue to hamper the search for victims aboard the Norman Atlantic Ferry one week after it caught fire en route from 05/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Italian pop icon Pino Daniele dies One of Italy’s best-loved singer-songwriters, Pino Daniele, has died aged 59. Steeped in his the sounds of his native Naples, Daniele burst onto the 05/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Syrian migrants paid thousands to board decrepit ship abandoned by crew The desperate conditions inside the Ezadeen have been revealed as investigators board the cargo ship that was carrying some 360 migrants when it was 04/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Migrant 'ghost ship' arrives in Italy Abandoned at sea, 360 migrants aboard the Ezadeen are now safe on land at the Italian port of Corigliano Calabro. All were described as being in 03/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Italian investigators in second inspection of burnt-out Norman Atlantic ferry A prosecutor in Brindisi boarded the vessel on Saturday in another inspection of the ferry which caught fire in the Adriatic. 03/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Italy: Abandoned cargo ship full of migrants is safely towed to port An uncertain future faces some 450 migrants on board a cargo ship abandoned by its crew off Italy in a new tactic by people smugglers. 03/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Fatal Italian ferry fire probe begins as number killed remains unclear Investigators hope to establish what went wrong and how many died in a fatal fire on a car ferry travelling from Patras in Greece to Ancona in Italy. 02/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Italy launches probe after mass police "sick leave" on New Year's Eve The Italian government has threatened disciplinary action after 83 per cent of police in Rome called in sick for work on New Year’s Eve. An inquiry 02/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Italy's costly, deadly battle with migrant traffickers Finally safe on dry land in Gallipoli, Italy… The vessel Blue Sky M had its steering locked on a collision course for the Italian Adriatic shore 02/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Italy finds second ghost ship with 450 migrants The Italian coastguard has rescued a drifting ship towards the coast of Italy with hundreds of migrants on board in the second such incident this 02/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Burned-out Norman Atlantic ferry waits to moor at Italian port Brindisi The Norman Atlantic car ferry that caught fire off the coast of Greece on Sunday has been taken to the Italian port of Brindisi. Investigators will 02/01/2015
Now playing Next Italy Italian coast guards board new abandoned migrant ship Italian military takes control of a cargo ship carrying some 450 migrants in the Mediterannean after it had been abandoned by human smugglers 02/01/2015