ROME- “To continue our race, concrete support for mums is needed”, said Patrizia Prestipino, Democratic Party representative, in an interview to Radio Cusano Campus .

VATICAN CITY - A Vatican Gendarme has been reported to Italian police by his wife for repeated, shocking domestic violence and ill-treatment of her over a number of years, judicial sources said Thu

ROME- President Sergio Mattarella, criticised the investigation into the Via D’Amelio massacre on its 25^th anniversary, in which Paolo Borsellino and his police escort died.

ROME - South African pharmaceutical giant Aspen officially donated 25,000 euros to the Banco Alimentare Foundation, Italy’s food bank organisation, founded in 1989.

ROME- The trial opened on Tuesday for investigation into the corruption scandal surrounding the payment of the refurbishment of cardinal Tarcisio Bertone’s apartment.

ROME- A 22-year-old man, originally from Busto Arsizio, Varese, was stopped and later arrested by Roman police at Castelfusano, where fires are raging.

ROME- Protests raged throughout Italy and the Governor of Veneto appeals against a recent law rendering certain vaccinations mandatory for children under 16.

ROME - Investigations into a metro driver who unintentionally dragged a woman trapped between the metro doors for one stop have begun, after the surveillance vide

ROME- “AL DI QUA” is a docufilm by Corrado Franco which reveals the torment and humanity behind the homeless of Turin.

ROME - Tourists have been left disgruntled as both the Palantine Hill and the Roman Forum remained closed on Wednesday morning between 8:30 - 11:30am. Why? A trade union assembly.

ROME- The leader of Italy's populist, right-wing party Lega Nord, Matteo Salvini, spoke of his wishes for a reformed European “community” and his “esteem” for Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump at the

ROME-  Italy's Chamber of Deputies has started discussions over a new law under which fascist propaganda would become a punishable offence.

ROME- For a week, there have been no reported arrivals of boats carrying migrants from Libya to Italy.

ROME.  Giuseppe Farinella’s request to be exempted from Italy’s “hard prison regime” should be reconsidered, according to Italy's Supreme Court.

ROME - Eighty percent of Italy’s party newspapers funded by the state have failed.

ROME - “Greater clarity and discussion on some questions” is needed in regard to Brexit and Italy, according to Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano, in a phone call with Boris Johnson on Wedne

ROME- On Wednesday, the singer Morrissey claimed that a police officer in Rome “terrorised” him by holding him at gunpoint for half an hour.

ROME -- Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who has died age 80, was an elegant Spanish journalist and personal spin doctor of Saint Pope John Paul II, the first person to hold the position of papal spokesman i

ROME - Modern slavery is not caused principally by illegal immigration but is the product of flawed economic systems in Italy and other European countries, Roberto Iovino, a senior Italian trades u