Accused "killer nurse" Daniela Poggiali is suspected of murdering as many as 38 of her patients because she found them or their families "annoying." It was initially reported she'd taken selfies next to the bodies of her alleged victims, but the suspicious photos were actually shot by a coworker. They leaked to the media over the weekend.

This video, shot earlier this year in Italy and uploaded today by a pyrotechnics enthusiast, shows what happens when an entire fireworks display accidentally goes up at once. To sum up: Holy shit. You'll want to turn the volume down a little bit for this one.

A couple having sex in the ocean off the Italian coast earlier this week reportedly became stuck together—"due to suction," according to the Local—and required a trip to the emergency room to be separated.

A nurse working in a northeastern Italian hospital has been arrested as part of an investigation into the deaths of 38 patients who, cops said, she may have injected with potassium chloride because they or their family members were "annoying,"

Police say an Italian man who thought his home was being burglarized this week was only partially right—turns out, the only thing the criminal stole was his wife's heart.

Matter, an online magazine with convenient time-to-read counters for the fastidious consumer, published a captivating story this morning that details an incident in L'Aquila, Italy involving seven scientists, a major earthquake, and a subsequent manslaughter case. It is worth all 24 of your minutes.

Bill de Blasio yawns as his son, Dante, drives a boat near the coast of Naples, Italy on Tuesday. [Image via Wall Street Journal]

The cruise ship Costa Concordia, which wrecked in 2012 killing 32 people, is floating again off the coast of Italy's Giglio Island. Thanks to a salvage operation that's cost more than 1 billion euro so far, the ship is now floating three feet above the undersea platform it had been resting on for the past year.

The Costa Concordia cruise ship, which crashed off the coast of Italy's Giglio Island in January of 2012, killing 32, has been slowly breaking down in the water for over two years. Authorities announced that they will begin to clear away the wreckage as early as Monday.

Congratulations to Kanye West and Kim Kardashian on their marriage, which was made official this evening in Florence, Italy. Kanye West was reportedly very nervous.

The most surprising part of this terrifying clown video is that there weren't more heart attacks involved.

The Italian court that reconvicted Amanda Knox this year issued a report today outlining a new theory in the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher.

Over 1,000 residents of Venice make up this giant rosebud in St. Mark's square in Venice for the "Festa del Bocolo", a tradition dating back to the Middle Age, on Friday. Image via Sebastiano Casellati/AP.

Silvio Berlusconi, the sex-party-loving former prime minister of Italy, was sentenced to one year of community service on Tuesday for his tax-fraud conviction last year. The 77-year-old will work four hours a week at a home for the elderly outside of Milan.

The time-honored combination of Mentos and Coke has been a staple of YouTube videos for almost as long as YouTube has existed. But just when you thought there was no more life to squeeze out of it, here comes an Italian magician with a condom and some Nutella to add a new dimension of WTF to the proceedings.

Former exchange student Amanda Knox was found guilty of murder on Thursday by an Italian appeals court. She was sentenced to 28 1/2 years in prison–but, because she now lives in Seattle, she probably won't serve the time.

[Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch is airborne on her way to win an alpine ski World Cup women's downhill, in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, on Friday. Image via Marco Trovati/AP.]

The Italian marketing team for Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave seems to have the wrong idea when it comes to what the film is about. Contrary to what some may think, the movie details the time a free black man named Solomon Northup was kidnapped and sold into bondage in the antebellum South. It is not, as these Italian posters might lead you to believe, a buddy film highlighting the antics and struggles of Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender.

Italian Nina De Chiffre kissed a police officer last month during a protest of a high speed rail line in Turin. It made for a pretty incredible photo. It was also, according to the police officer, sexual assault.

A 60-year-old man who was sentenced to five years in jail after getting caught in bed with an 11-year-old girl has had his conviction tossed out after his victim told the court she was in love with him.