By INSIDER REPORTERS

 By ALYX BARKER

By ALYX BARKER

ROME -- The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace has recommended a "central world bank" to try and combat the looming global financial crisis.

ROME  -- Iranian film director and screenwriter Mohammad Rasoulof left Rome on Sunday expecting to be arrested on arrival in Tehran. That, however, did not happen.

ROME-- British actor Jeremy Irons took a swipe at the United Nations’ often sluggish bureaucracy during his inauguration as a goodwill ambassador for the U.N.

By DALEELA FARINA

By Alyx Barker

ROME -- Leading ‘hungercrats’ at the World Food Day ceremony today spoke of the need to combat volatile food prices.

By ALYX BARKER

ROME -- DirectorsTerence Davies and David Hare, musician Michael Nyman and writer Hanif Kureishi will be headlining the Focus section which this year the International Rome Film Festival (27 Octobe

MADRID -- On Friday I went to El Valle de los Caídos, Francisco Franco’s massive monument to himself, to Catholicism and in theory, at least, the dead (caídos) of the Spanish Civi

PERUGIA – An Italian appeal court today cleared American student Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaelle Sollecito of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 and ordered the immed

ROME -– The scientific world has experienced controversy over the past few days since a laboratory in Gran Sasso, near Rome reported results last Friday that neutrinos travel faster than light, acc

  ROME —Britain is accused of interfering in Italy’s internal affairs for more than half a century in support of its strategic interests in the Mediterranean, according to a new book presented yest

ROME -- Every Italian schoolchild knows that the Piedmontese prime minister sent troops to fight with the British and French in Crimea in

EDINBURGH-- The up and coming comedian Jack Whitehall spearheaded an exceptionally fun-filled Edinburgh festival this year, helping to draw masses of tourists from around the globe into the Scottis

ROME — It is quite possible that Osama bin Laden is dead.