ROME - The Italian Ministry of Defence has confirmed that it will now pay its debt to American manufacturer Lockheed Martin Corp for the F-35 fighter jets that it bought.

ROME – A new ticketing plan for the Eternal City’s Colosseum has been presented which not only increases entry prices but also introduces additional types of tickets.

ROME - Ukraine's Ministry of Culture has put Italian singer Albano Carrisi, better known by his stage name Al Bano, on the “black list” of individuals considered a threat to national security.

ROME – The World Food Programme (WFP) has revealed the identities of the seven WFP staff members, from Italy, Indonesia, China, Ireland, Nepal and Serbia, who lost their lives in the Ethiopian Airl

ROME - It has been confirmed that the silhouettes spotted on Nanga Parbat on Thursday were indeed the bodies of the two missing climbers.

ROME - Two young women from the Eternal City working for the World Food Programme (WFP) were among eight Italian citizens killed in the plane crash in Ethiopia Sunday.

ROME – With the impending deadline for Brexit being just three weeks away, one of Britain's most respected Members of the European Parliament (MEP), Honourable David Campbell Bannerman, predicts th

ROME - Italy’s miserable Six Nations run continued as they fell to a heavy defeat at the hands of a dominant England team.

ROME - “Those are the words, but where are the actions?” This was the indictment of Pope Francis and the Vatican delivered by Italian journalist and Vatican commentator Emiliano Fittipaldi that hel

ROME - As Italy celebrates International Women’s Day, statistics have revealed that more women than ever are benefiting from professional training schemes.

ROME - Speaking on International Women's Day, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Friday that he would be presenting two new laws to fight violence against women in Italy.

ROME - Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is currently under investigation for corruption in a case involving Banca Mediolanum.

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