ROME - Antonio Orlando, leader of the Italian Mafia-type crime syndicate Camorra, was arrested Tuesday morning after 15 years at large in Italy.

BOLZANO – A 25-year partnership between the South Tyrol People’s Party (SVP) and the centre-left has come to an end after party leadership gave the all clear to enter into discussions with Matteo S

ROME – Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio was left to regret his previous “mud-slinging” towards the family of Democratic Party member Maria Elena Boschi on Tuesday after a scandal over his father

MILAN – Former X Factor winner Michele Bravi could be imprisoned for up to seven years for killing a 58-year-old woman in a road incident, Il Messaggero reported

ROME - Pope Francis has harshly condemned Black Friday for inducing rampant consumerism.

ROME – At a Mediatrends meeting between journalists and South American ambassadors, the Communications Director for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation spoke of the danger caused b

ROME - Considered one of the world’s leading film directors, Bernardo Bertolucci transgressed the traditional cinematic depiction of everyday life, and paved the way for the Italian new wave moveme

ROME – Bernardo Bertolucci, one of the most influential figures in Italian cinema over the last 50 years, has passed away, his family reported on Monday.

ROME – Players throughout the Serie A sported red marks on their face in a condemnation of violence against women in their weekend fixtures, while Genoa and Sampdoria, both based in the same city,

POZZALLO – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini renewed his verbal assault on Malta on Monday after reports of the arrival of a boat with 264 migrants on board, Il Fatto Quotidiano has reported.

ROME – The UN Refugee Agency has called for the end of refugee detention and an increase in the number of resettlement places for migrants after the total number of evacuees from Libya reached 2,50

ROME – Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio has promised that basic income for up to six million Italians is in the process of being delivered, Il Fatto Quotidiano reports.

ROME – Strikes across Italian hospitals on Friday over an apparent lack of funding for public health will cause thousands of operations to be postponed, medical sources report.

BEIJING – The founders of Italian fashion brand Dolce and Gabbana published an apology to China via Instagram on Friday after the company released an allegedly sexist and racist advert, Il Fatto Qu

ROME – The human remains found in the Vatican’s Embassy to Italy ‘don’t belong’ to either Emanuela Orlandi or Mirella Gregori, the two girls who went missing in 1983, legal sources reported on Frid

ROME – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini told State broadcaster RAI on Thursday that the government would not amend its plan for the budget, despite receiving an official rejection of the proposal f

ROME – University College London (UCL), one of Britain’s leading universities, has taken steps to forge relationships with its counterparts in Rome ahead of an expected downturn in collaboration op

ROME – The government’s decision on Wednesday to remove the heads of Italy’s security service bodies in favour of two former generals of the finance police has drawn a degree of controversy, Il Fat

ROME - “It isn’t just women who can understand women.

ROME - The Honourable Cristina Rossello, president of ‘Progetto Donne e Futuro’, discussed Europe’s “second industrial revolution”, fake news and the importance of building bridges between differen

MILAN – A lone ISIS operative was arrested early on Tuesday morning in an anti-terrorism operation in Milan, police sources report.

ROME – Rome authorities began the demolition of eight villas illegally built by the Casamonica clan early on Tuesday morning, police sources report.

ROME – An Italian side that, for the first time ever, featured a player born in the 2000s found a last-minute winner in a friendly against the USA on Tuesday night, avoiding going two games without

SALERNO – The movement of a huge waterspout from the sea to the south-western city of Salerno was captured on video on Tuesday afternoon, eyewitness sources report.