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

 ROME – Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and his new brood of Cabinet ministers were sworn in by the head of state, Sergio Mattarella, at the Quirinal Palace, on Thursday.

 ROME – After the positive results of the Five Star Movement’s Rousseau vote, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte formally told President Sergio Mattarella Wednesday that he has reached agreement

  ROME – Around 30,000 Five Star Movement (M5S) members have already voted on the birth of a new government with the Democratic Party (PD), led by Giuseppe Conte, political sources said on Tuesday.

 VATICAN CITY – Delayed for his weekly Angelus prayers after being trapped in an elevator, Pope Francis named 13 new cardinals who will become "princes of the Church" in October, Vatican sources sa

 ROME - Pope Francis is leaving on 4 September for a trip to Africa in which he is visiting Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius.

 VENICE – Jury president of the 76^th Venice Film Festival Lucrecia Martel supports the controversial inclusion of Roman Polanski in the competition but will not attend a dinner organised

 ROME – Nicola Zingaretti, leader of the Democratic Party, has made official his party’s agreement to a second government under Giuseppe Conte, after meeting with President Sergio Mattarella, polit

 ROME - The Five Star Movement and Democratic Party resumed talks Tuesday afternoon on finding an arrangement that would allow them to form a coalition government, according to political sources. 

 ROME – 10 September marks the opening of the “Living Memory” exhibition at the Historical Museum in Cassino. 

 ROME – The Democratic Party and Five Star Movement were still discussing the possibility of a coalition ahead of Tuesday’s second round of consultations with President Sergio Mattarella.  

 ROME – Maintenance works for the city’s subway Metro A have officially ended and the entire line, including the section from Battistini to Termini, is now back to normal. But from Sept.

 VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis called for the “vital lungs” of the planet - the Amazon forest - to be saved, at his Angelus on Sunday.