Experts in Italy have warned one of the world’s most famous statues — Michelangelo’s David — is in danger of collapsing because it has weak ankles.

Italy's president has accepted the resignation of Premier Enrico Letta after he was sacked by his own Democratic party in a back-room mutiny.

This afternoon in the Italian city of Florence, UCI Congress will sit down in the Palazzo Vecchio with the future of world cycling at stake.

Art sleuths believe they have found traces of a Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece on a hidden wall in a palace in Florence that has not been seen in over four centuries.