ROME - The Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office has placed dozens of people, including art critic and MP Vittorio Sgarbi, under investigation on suspicion of art forgery.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis entertained the possibility of selling disused, empty Italian churches to raise money for the poor in his address at the Episcopalian Conference, Il Messaggero reports o

ROME – After yet another disappointing meeting between Italian and Egyptian investigators to examine Giulio Regeni's murder, Chamber of Deputies President Roberto Fico has declared Italy will sever

ROME – The security and migration decree proposed by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini was approved in the Lower House on Wednesday morning, despite protests from a number of Five Star Movement depu

ROME – Yet another defeat in AS Roma’s shambolic opening to the season left fans fuming at the Stadio Olimpico, even though other results guaranteed the Italian side’s place in the last 16 of the C

ROME – The Finance Police executed an order on Wednesday to seize the assets of Sampdoria chairman Massimo Ferrero in an investigation into financial misconduct, Il Fatto Quotidiano reports.

BOLZANO – A 25-year partnership between the South Tyrol People’s Party (SVP) and the centre-left has come to an end after party leadership gave the all clear to enter into discussions with Matteo S

ROME – Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio was left to regret his previous “mud-slinging” towards the family of Democratic Party member Maria Elena Boschi on Tuesday after a scandal over his father

ROME - A series of meetings will take place over the next four days between Vice-President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Cornelia Richter, and Bolivian government o

ROME - Pope Francis has harshly condemned Black Friday for inducing rampant consumerism.

ROME – At a Mediatrends meeting between journalists and South American ambassadors, the Communications Director for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation spoke of the danger caused b

ROME - Considered one of the world’s leading film directors, Bernardo Bertolucci transgressed the traditional cinematic depiction of everyday life, and paved the way for the Italian new wave moveme

ROME – Bernardo Bertolucci, one of the most influential figures in Italian cinema over the last 50 years, has passed away, his family reported on Monday.

ROME – Players throughout the Serie A sported red marks on their face in a condemnation of violence against women in their weekend fixtures, while Genoa and Sampdoria, both based in the same city,

POZZALLO – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini renewed his verbal assault on Malta on Monday after reports of the arrival of a boat with 264 migrants on board, Il Fatto Quotidiano has reported.

ROME – Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio has promised that basic income for up to six million Italians is in the process of being delivered, Il Fatto Quotidiano reports.

ROME – Strikes across Italian hospitals on Friday over an apparent lack of funding for public health will cause thousands of operations to be postponed, medical sources report.

ROME – The human remains found in the Vatican’s Embassy to Italy ‘don’t belong’ to either Emanuela Orlandi or Mirella Gregori, the two girls who went missing in 1983, legal sources reported on Frid

ROME – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini told State broadcaster RAI on Thursday that the government would not amend its plan for the budget, despite receiving an official rejection of the proposal f

ROME – University College London (UCL), one of Britain’s leading universities, has taken steps to forge relationships with its counterparts in Rome ahead of an expected downturn in collaboration op

ROME – The government’s decision on Wednesday to remove the heads of Italy’s security service bodies in favour of two former generals of the finance police has drawn a degree of controversy, Il Fat

ROME - “It isn’t just women who can understand women.

ROME - The Honourable Cristina Rossello, president of ‘Progetto Donne e Futuro’, discussed Europe’s “second industrial revolution”, fake news and the importance of building bridges between differen