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.

 VATICAN CITY – It has been suggested that there is a plot to engineer Pope Francis’ resignation. 

 ROME - The Open Arms ship has finally landed at Lampedusa.  All 81 migrants remaining on board have disembarked, following Agrigento prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio’s decision to seize the ship.

 VATICAN CITY - In a brief statement on Wednesday the Holy See has "acknowledged" an Australian court's decision to reject Cardinal George Pell's appeal against a six-year prison sentence for sexua

 ROME -- Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced his resignation at the end of a speech to Parliament Tuesday explaining why his coalition Government couldn't continue.

 ROME - The granddaughter of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is protesting against the closure of her Facebook account and asking for its reactivation.

 ROME - The Open Arms rescue ship, stranded in the Mediterranean for 18 days, has been offered a safe port in Spain, a decision the NGO has slammed as “incomprehensible.” 

ROME - The parents of Italian PhD student Giulio Regeni, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Egypt in 2016, launched Monday an online petition demanding that It

ROME – The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Rome is wrapping up its investigation against a Vatican clergyman accused of sexual abuse against young altar boys. 

 ROME– The United Nations World Food Programme welcomes important, positive steps taken by the Sana’a-based authorities on safeguards to ensure humanitarian food assistance reaches

 ROME – Amid the standoff between Italian, Maltese and Spanish authorities that has left 121 migrants stranded at sea in searing temperatures, Amnesty International is calling for Italy and Malta t

 ROME – In the wake of the Senate’s rejection of the Five Star Movement’s no-TAV motion, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini is calling for the scalps of three ministers or he will dissolve the go

ROME – The Senate has rejected the Five Star Movement’s motion to stop the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail-link project by 181 votes to 110, political sources said on Wednesday.

ROME – The writing on the façade of the CasaPound office has been removed from the historic seat of the neo-fascist political party and now Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has called for the group to eva

ROME – Tourists face fines of up to 400 euros for sitting or lying down on the Eternal City’s Spanish Steps, made famous abroad by Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in the 1953 film, Roman Holida

ROME – Passengers will have to use alternative transport means throughout August during closures for maintenance works on Metro line A.