ROME - AS Roma have sacked head coach Eusebio di Francesco after a string of disappointing recent performances culminated in the team being dumped out of the Champions League this week.

VATICAN CITY - The archbishop of Lyon and France's most senior figure in the Roman Catholic church, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, has been found guilty of covering up incidents of child sexual abuse

ROME - Italy is set to become the first G7 nation to endorse China’s Belt and Road Initiative in a move that has aggravated both the US and Brussels.

ROME – The European Union (EU) has referred Rome to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for the extreme levels of pollution registered in seven Italian regions, which could result in sanctions of u

ROME - AS Roma have been dumped out of the Champions League by Porto as an Alex Telles penalty deep into extra-time helped seal a 3-1 win for the Portuguese outfit.

ROME – Chicago basketball player Liam Farley, aged 25, was rushed to hospital after he fell Wednesday morning from a balcony on the first floor of the I Triangoli residence on Via Wolf Ferrari in t

ROME – The judicial position of Massimo Galioto, who is on trial for the murder of Beau Solomon, the 19-year-old American university student who was pushed into the River Tiber on the night of June

ROME - Ida Marandola, the General Director of the Council for Research in Agriculture and the Analysis of Land Economy (CREA), has been arrested on suspicion of “grave irregularities” in the manage

ROME - Post offices and CAF agencies across Italy have been overwhelmed by the number of requests for the new citizenship income scheme that the Government has introduced.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis announced on Monday that the Vatican would open its archives on controversial Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII next year.

ROME - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Timo Soini, 57, has recently made a working visit to Italy and to the Vatican City, meeting both representatives of the Italian and the Vatican go

ROME - Nicola Zingaretti, current President of the Regional Government of Lazio, has been elected as the new Secretary of the Democratic Party [PD] and will assume office on the 17th March 2019.

Rome – About 34,000 vulnerable rural households in Sierra Leone will benefit from a new US dlrs 72.6 million project that aims to improve food and nutrition security and raise the incomes of smallh

ROME - The Italian State paid more than 10 million euros to the Lazio Region over a 25 year period for the construction of an adult ward for patients with cystic fibrosisin the Policlinico Umberto

ROME - In the rankings of Italian universities reported by QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019, the world university classification by discipline, Italy has considerably improved.

ROME - A radio that has given voice to Italy's institutions for the last 42 years is under threat of closure after the government decided to cut its budget in half, threatening a vital source of in

ROME - Italian Ambassador in London, Raffaele Trombetta will host an event on March 13 with the aim of trying to attract Italian talent to return to Italy.

ROME - Defence Undersecretary and member of the Five Star Movement (M5S) Angelo Tofalo has enraged Minister of Defence Elisabetta Trenta and the pacifist wing of the M5S by attending IDEX 2019, the

ROME – Pope Francis has announced that he is to set up child protection task forces as he pledged “all out battle” against abuse. He condemned those who engage in abuse as "tools of satan."

ROME – Following pressure from the United States not to use Chinese tech giant Huawei's products for the development of Italy’s 5G infrastructure because of cybersecurity risks, the League party ha

ROME - The Five Star Movement (M5S) are pressuring the State Property Agency to formalise a complaint calling for the eviction of squatters from the Esquiline building occupied by the neo-fascist p

ROME - Low cost airlines Ryanair and Wizzair have been fined millions for their cabin luggage charges.

ROME –  Leading Pennsylvania politician Mark Rozzi, nationally known for his unwavering defence of survivors of child sexual abuse, and himself a victim of rape at the hands of a priest, called for