ROME - The company Sanex is holding an online poll to choose an Italian artwork to be restored as part of its "Libera l'arte" publicity campaign.

 COSENZA – A 4.2 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Calabria in Cosenza, causing train delays of up to 100 minutes, local authorities said on Monday.

ROME – Ciro Grillo, the 19-year-old son of comedian and Five Star Movement co-founder Beppe Grillo, has been accused along with three friends, of taking part in the gang rape of a model, Italian me

 ROME – Democratic Party (PD) secretary Nicola Zingaretti and former DP leader Matteo Renzi have come to the defence of new Minister for Agriculture Teresa Bellanova after she was attacked on socia

 ROME – The most important newcomer in the new Giuseppe Conte government cabinet is arguably that of the Interior Minister. Why?

 ROME – Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and his new brood of Cabinet ministers were sworn in by the head of state, Sergio Mattarella, at the Quirinal Palace, on Thursday.

 ROME – The following is a list of ministers in Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s new, second government:

 Cabinet under-secretary: Riccardo Fraccaro

 ROME – After the positive results of the Five Star Movement’s Rousseau vote, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte formally told President Sergio Mattarella Wednesday that he has reached agreement

 GENOA – The birthplace of the Vespa is set to outlaw older models of the iconic scooter, in a bid to combat pollution, local authorities said on Wednesday.

 VENICE – The mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, is proposing smoke-free zones in the centre of the lagoon city, officials said on Tuesday.

  ROME – Around 30,000 Five Star Movement (M5S) members have already voted on the birth of a new government with the Democratic Party (PD), led by Giuseppe Conte, political sources said on Tuesday.

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

 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 - Plans to permanently reopen WWII dictator Benito Mussolini’s tomb as a place of pilgrimage have sparked public outrage spearheaded by the national partisans’ association ANPI. 

 STROMBOLI, Aeolian Islands – Holidaymakers and residents have spent another anxious night on the island of Stromboli after three more volcanic eruptions, police and residents said Friday.

  TRIESTE – Messages of solidarity have poured in for reporter Giovanni Taormina who found three bullets on the seat of his locked car parked outside his home in Fruili on Thursday, an act of intim

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

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 There has been a small earthquake near Rieti, in Lazio, Central Italy.