ROME - A Rome court has rejected a request by Rudy Guede, currently serving 16 years in prison for the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher, to spend the rest of his sentence doing community service.

 ROME – Judging by the enthusiastic support given to the idea by main political parties, 16-year-olds in Italy could soon get the vote.

 ROME – On his first official visit to Italy as U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo was to have a private audience with Pope Francis at a Vatican symposium on Wednesday.

 ROME - AS Roma has teamed up with World Cup hosts Qatar to develop football in Italy at grassroots level in a four-year partnership.

 ROME – A memorial to Peter Tompkins, an American Second World War spy whose daring work with Italian anti-Fasist agents in occupied Rome played a crucial role in the battle of Anzio, was unveiled

 ROME – The Vatican is watching nervously as German bishops meet in Fulda, central Germany, to debate and launch a campaign of change for the Catholic Church in Germany.

 ROME – A Remembrance Day service will be held on Friday November 8 at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, 50 Via Nicola Zabaglia, Testaccio, Rome.

 ROME – Ramon Cristobal Santoyo, a main director of cocaine smuggling from Mexico to the USA, has been arrested at Rome’s Fiumicino airport, reports Il Messaggero.

 ROME – Three police officers are being investigated in relation to a Jet Ski joyride taken by the son of former Interior Minister and leader of the Northern League Matteo Salvini, police sources s

 ROME – The Chamber of Deputies has voted by secret ballot not to place Forza Italia deputy Diego Sozzani under house arrest, in an early defeat for the new government.

 ROME – President of France Emmanuel Macron is arrived in Rome on Wednesday for talks with Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte.  The discussions focussed on the issue of migration.

 ROME – The local administrations of Rome are being investigated for allegedly using funds from its system of draconian fines intended for road maintenance on “bizarre” expenses, all while Rome’s b

 ROME – Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has announced he is splitting from the ruling Democratic Party (PD), saying his decision to leave is driven by the lack of a “vision for the futur

 ROME – Italy’s new Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has hit back at his Hungarian counterpart who described as ‘deplorable and dangerous” the 'Conte Two' government’s decision to dock the NGO Ocean

ROME - The ban on ‘skip-the-line’ promoters implemented by the Polizia Urbana di Roma Capitale since June has drastically harmed tour agencies’ businesses and increased the number of illegal promot

 ROME – Passengers evacuated train carriages and walked hundreds of metres along the subway tunnel following “technical problems” on Rome’s Metro B, train commuters said on Friday.

 ROME – As the Ocean Viking migrant rescue ship awaits a green light for a safe port to dock, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is confident of a “prompt solution” following his meeting with Eu

 ROME - Artist William Kentridge’s 550-metre-long mural along the banks of the Tiber is disappearing.

 ROME - Pope Francis, returning from his visit to Africa, gave an interview to journalists in which he drew comparisons between the speeches of modern populists and those of Hitler in 1934, and sai

 ROME – The Ocean Viking migrant-rescue ship carrying 84 migrants "must enter, no ifs or buts," Democratic Party (PD) leader Nicola Zingaretti said in a television interview late on Tuesday, when a

 ROME – New Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte was meeting with EU officials on Wednesday to discuss issues of budgets, funding and migration, after winning confidence votes in the two chambers

 ROME – Stefano Delle Chiaie, neo-fascist terrorist and former fugitive implicated in the 1980 Bologna massacre that killed 85 people, has died overnight in Rome’s Vannini hospital aged 82, local s

 ROME – The Run for Peace is helping to fund charity work in aid of the victims of domestic violence.

ROME – Ciro Grillo, the 19-year-old son of comedian and Five Star Movement co-founder Beppe Grillo, has been accused along with three friends, of taking part in the gang rape of a model, Italian me

 ROME – Democratic Party (PD) secretary Nicola Zingaretti and former DP leader Matteo Renzi have come to the defence of new Minister for Agriculture Teresa Bellanova after she was attacked on socia