Matteo Renzi

Conte submitted his resignation to Mattarella, the first step in trying to form a new government with a strengthened majority.

This is not Renzi's first foray as an iconoclast shaking up Italian politics.

Gentiloni, who had been Renzi's foreign minister, was asked by President Sergio Mattarella to form a new government that will guide Italy to elections due by February 2018.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi will hand in his resignation on Friday, a parliamentary source said, as President Sergio Mattarella seeks to slow the pace of an unfolding political crisis.

Asian stocks posted their biggest rise in two weeks as investors judged the selloff after Italy's referendum to be overdone, with robust U.S. economic data also helping sentiment.

It will be the job of President Sergio Mattarella to decide what happens next.

"My experience of government finishes here," Renzi told a press conference, acknowledging that the No campaign had won an "extraordinarily clear" victory.

In language usually used to scold a moody teenager, Obama discarded diplomatic decorum, skewering the mogul from the Rose Garden in front of visiting Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

Renzi also says he blamed Britain's former premier David Cameron for June's vote to leave the European Union.

The ministry campaign was recalled over the weekend, but it continues to spark outrage.

Italy's desire to court visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani extended to covering up classical nude sculptures in the museum.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will visit Italy next month, his first trip to a European Union capital, and also meet Pope Francis, a diplomatic source said on Wednesday.

Petronas Lubricants International success in Italy reflect the national oil corporation's continuing success as a global investor in international markets.

Italians voted Sunday in regional elections seen as a key measure of the fading fortunes of ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi as well as an important test for centre-left Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

Italian police on Tuesday arrested the captain and first mate of a boat involved in the Mediterranean's deadliest disaster in decades on suspicion of murder, causing a shipwreck.

The court denied bail and scheduled case mention on Feb 7 for the submission of forensic, autopsy, and chemist reports.

The classroom assessment approach offers a much more interesting learning ecosystem, says Fadhlina Sidek.

Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.

It represents a big legal victory for Donald Trump, who won the Nov. 5 US election and is set to return to office on Jan. 20.

Rescue services said the plane hit the ground, split into pieces and slid over 100 metres (110 yards).

The warm-up matches will involve matches against better ranked teams in the world, namely Austria (first) and Belgium (third).

The United States, part of the G7, has rejected the ICC decision, with President Joe Biden describing it as outrageous.

A legend who has influenced our music for decades, was one of the highlights of my career, says Francissca Peter.

Judges are reviewing TikTok's challenge to a law requiring ByteDance to sell its US assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban.

In Washington, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said, "We're close" but "nothing is done until everything is done".