ROME – An advert threatening a “head-butting” for citizens that don’t come to the beach in Ostia has been banned, authorities said on Thursday, as parodying the well-known mafia attack on a journal

ROME - Ongoing controversy as the narrowing of the Magliana viaduct ‘experiment’ continues despite endless complaints from both citizens and councilors.

ROME - Controversial labour market reform 'decreto Dignità' has been given the green light, with 155 yes votes versus 125 no votes cast in parliament.

ROME - Horror as metro ceiling comes crumbling down and causes grave injury to passenger.

ROME - The NGO Baobab Experience has denounced Italy’s Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, for spreading “racial hatred”.

ROME - Pope Francis has changed the catechism of the Catholic Church, insisting that the death penalty is “unjustifiable”, religious authorities said on Friday.

ROME – An Italian merchant vessel has taken 108 migrants back to Libya, an incident criticised by the UNHCR yet disputed by Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, coastal police reported on Tues

ROME – Devon White harpooned himself through the eye whilst on holiday in a seaside resort in Sperlonga yet made a mirac

ROME – Local police on Thursday at dawn began evicting hundreds of Roma from a gypsy camp on the bank of the river Tiber claiming that the shanty town is ‘insanitary’, leaving many homeless.

ROME - The front cover of this week’s Famiglia Cristiana journal continues to divide the Church and the government even further apart on the topic of immigration, over the branding of Salv

ROME - Horse-drawn carriages, transporting crowds of tourists around the busy central Roman streets will soon be a thing of the past, as the Capital agreed on Wednesday to a new law in which they w

ROME - A 50-year-old Italian man with a blank criminal record seriously injured a Rom baby girl last week in South-East Rome by ‘accidentally’ shooting her whilst testing his gun, police said on We

ROME – Davide Casaleggio, one of the main political philosophers from Italy’s Five Star movement, has called for parliament to be abolished in favour of ‘direct democracy’ on the internet, which ha

ROME – A Pontino Brewery in Lazio has caused an uproar within Hindu communities by using a picture of Lord Ganesha on one of their beer bottles, statesman Rajan Zed said on Tuesday.

ROME - A Roman street seller tried to set himself on fire right in the centre of the city during a demonstration protesting against new crackdowns on the trade, local authorities said on Tuesday.

ROME - Five Star Movement leaders warn sailor-politician Andrea Mura that if he continues to neglect his political duties, he will be forced to resign; Mura responds: "So what if I’m absent from th

ROME – A new British managing director at Fiat Chrysler, Mike Manley, has been appointed on Monday following Sergio Marchionne’s health deterioration, as he fell into a coma after an operation.

ROME - Italy’s Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini, launched a lawsuit alleging defamation against anti mafia writer Roberto Saviano on Friday for the content of his Facebook posts, but the author in

ROME - A 22-year old girl from Rome has died whilst crossing Corso Vittorio Emanuele in the very centre of the city, run over by a coach full of tourists, police said on Friday.

ROME - Five Star movement leader and Deputy Prime Minister Luigi di Maio was lampooned by the opposition Thursday for hiring a statuesque blonde girlfriend, 26 with no relevant experience, for as m

ROME - The reform for self-defence presented by the League leader on Thursday will legitimise “self-defence of the property owner in the case of forced entry or violence against said owner,” govern

ROME – Carabinieri have been sieving the canals in the lush Maccarese area near Rome after a local reportedly spotted a crocodile swimming there, local authorities said on Wednesday.