ROME – A serious episode of censorship has been carried out by Italian national public broadcaster RAI television against Senator Nicola Morra, President of the Anti-Mafia Commiss

 ROME – The old tradition of asking tourists to toss a coin for luck in the Trevi Fountain has evidently been refined by a branch of the Banco di Sardegna bank nex

 VATICAN CITY – The former butler of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, Paolo Gabriele, who was convicted in the first “Vatileaks” case, has died aged 54, Vatican offici

 ROME – War surgeon Gino Strada has been recruited as an external consultant to help the southern region of Calabria in its battle against COVID-19.

 ROME – Drug counterfeiting could be the next pandemic challenge once a safe and effective vaccine against COVID-19 begins production and distribution, a senior foreign ministry official warned on

 ROME – For the fist time in its 700-year history, Sapienza University of Rome has appointed a female rector.

 ROME – Speaking at an online press conference reserved for correspondents of the foreign press in Italy, and moderated by Romanian journalist

 ROME – Speaking at an online press conference reserved for correspondents of the foreign press in Italy, and moderated by Romanian journalist

 VATICAN CITY – After 160 years, Holy See newspaper L’Osservatore Romano has relocated its editorial office outside the Vatican walls, religious sources said on Thursday.

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis vowed to “eradicate” sexual abuse in the Church following the release of an internal report on the Holy See's mishandling of allegations against former U.S.

 ROME – Small businesses providing essential services for Italians as diverse as tattoo parlours and sex shops as well as clothes boutiques and dance schools will receive financial grants from the

ROME – Tougher new measures to combat Covid-19 that sees Italy divided into three colour-coded areas based on contagion risk, have drawn the ire of regional governors, political sources said on Thu

 ROME - Mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi is the latest political figure to self-isolate after testing positive for coronavirus.

 ROME – Former Forza Italia senator Denis Verdini, for years a close advisor to Silvio Berlusconi, Wednesday began his first full day behind bars after losing his

 ROME – Former Roma football club captain Francesco Totti said he had a fever and a feeling of weakness before getting a test that returned a positive result for

 ROME – Italian PM Giuseppe Conte is stuck in a tug-of-war with regional governors as details of a new government decree to combat the surge of COVID-19 were bein

 ROME – After a film and stage career spanning more than five decades, much loved Italian actor, comedian and director Gigi Proietti has died on his 80

 ROME – The continuing surge in coronavirus infections has Italian medical experts fearing hospitals will soon be overwhelmed, with the Conte government expected

 ROME – Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has adopted a “wait and see” approach to Covid before implementing further restrictions as the country hits a new re

 NICE – The Vatican has condemned the knife attack that left three people dead and wounded several others in the French city of Nice, the Holy See said on Thursda