SCILLA (REGGIO CALABRIA) – Luigi Vazzana, 28, fell asleep on a lilo in Scilla, Calabria, drifted out to sea and was rescued by the coastguard after a six-hour search.

 VATICAN CITY – It has been suggested that there is a plot to engineer Pope Francis’ resignation. 

 ROME - The Open Arms ship has finally landed at Lampedusa.  All 81 migrants remaining on board have disembarked, following Agrigento prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio’s decision to seize the ship.

 ROME – August 24 marks 30 years since the death of Jerry Masslo.  His death, which greatly shocked and moved the Italian public, also called attention to racism and the exploitation of migrants in

 CATANIA – There is severe concern that Stromboli volcano, in the Aeolian islands, may be about to erupt again.

 ROME -- Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced his resignation at the end of a speech to Parliament Tuesday explaining why his coalition Government couldn't continue.

 GENOA - The Intercity Leghorn-Milan train has arrived four hours late following two breakdowns and an alleged attack on the conductor. The train had stopped at Arquata Scrivia following the breakd

ROME – The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Rome is wrapping up its investigation against a Vatican clergyman accused of sexual abuse against young altar boys. 

 ROME– The United Nations World Food Programme welcomes important, positive steps taken by the Sana’a-based authorities on safeguards to ensure humanitarian food assistance reaches

 ROME -– Italy was plunged into political crisis Friday after League leader and deputy prime Matteo Salvini called for an early general election when his Five Star Party coalition partner failed to

 ROME – Amid the standoff between Italian, Maltese and Spanish authorities that has left 121 migrants stranded at sea in searing temperatures, Amnesty International is calling for Italy and Malta t

 ROME - Italian literature has often been enriched by writers of the north-eastern frontier region where Italian, Germanic and Slavic cultures mingle.

 ROME – In the wake of the Senate’s rejection of the Five Star Movement’s no-TAV motion, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is calling for the scalps of three ministers or he will dissolve the go

ROME – The Senate has rejected the Five Star Movement’s motion to stop the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail-link project by 181 votes to 110, political sources said on Wednesday.

ROME – The writing on the façade of the CasaPound office has been removed from the historic seat of the neo-fascist political party and now Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has called for the group to eva