LAMPEDUSA – The Italian coastguard has seized migrant rescue ship Mare Jonio, currently anchored at the island of Lampedusa, Interior Ministry sources said on Tuesday.

 VATICAN CITY – Delayed for his weekly Angelus prayers after being trapped in an elevator, Pope Francis named 13 new cardinals who will become "princes of the Church" in October, Vatican sources sa

 LAMPEDUSA – After going more than 40 hours without water, medical staff aboard the Mare Jonio of Italian NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans, have issued a new urgent request to dock, due to t

 ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme is putting together an emergency response to provide food to Ebola survivors and those potentially carrying the virus.

 ROME - Pope Francis is leaving on 4 September for a trip to Africa in which he is visiting Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius.

 ROME – About 40 migrants, including children, are feared to have died in a tragic shipwreck off the coast of Libya. 

 NEW YORK - A prostitute has been arrested in New York over the death of Italian chef Andrea Zamperoni, found dead in a hotel in Queens on Aug. 21, American media reports.

 VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis called for the “vital lungs” of the planet - the Amazon forest - to be saved, at his Angelus on Sunday.

 ROME - Malta is opening it port to 356 migrants stranded for two weeks in the Mediterranean Sea aboard the Ocean Viking rescue ship, after a deal was struck between six EU countries that have agre

CAPRI – Supermodel and former Project Runway host Heidi Klum has copped flak for posting a topless Insta-pic while honeymooning in Italy with new husband Tom Kaulitz.

 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 — FAO staff and consultants paid tribute Monday at their headquarters to former director general Jacques Diouf, who died last week-end at age 81.

 SALERNO – The body of Simon Gautier has been found in a ravine.  The 27-year-old French tourist, who went missing on August 9 while hiking, was identified by mountain rescue in the Belvedere di Ci

 NEW YORK – For exactly six months, thousands of protesters have been gathering in the streets of Algiers and other major cities, every Friday without fail.

 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 - Technology company Leonardo announced the sale of five helicopters valued at nearly 30 million euros while at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (LABACE), held

 GENEVA – Protecting and restoring forests and urgently revamping the global food system through dietary change are the key solutions to the escalating land and climate crisis, an authoritative UN

 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 – Kidnapped Italian aid worker Silvia Romano had filed a complaint against an Anglican pastor accusing him of molesting some girls before she went missing, Il Fatto Quotidiano report

ROME – Finnegan Lee Elder believed he was “the target of an attack,” claiming he was “afraid of being strangled” and that he didn’t know the man he allegedly killed was a Carabiniere paramilitary p