ROME - AS Roma have been dumped out of the Champions League by Porto as an Alex Telles penalty deep into extra-time helped seal a 3-1 win for the Portuguese outfit.

ROME – Chicago basketball player Liam Farley, aged 25, was rushed to hospital after he fell Wednesday morning from a balcony on the first floor of the I Triangoli residence on Via Wolf Ferrari in t

ROME – The judicial position of Massimo Galioto, who is on trial for the murder of Beau Solomon, the 19-year-old American university student who was pushed into the River Tiber on the night of June

NAPLES - Three young men have been arrested after a 24-year-old woman was raped in the lift of the Circumvesuviana train station of San Giorgio a Cremano, near Naples.

ITALY - The King of Jordan, Abdullah II, will, accompanied by Queen Rania, visit the Basilica of St.

ROME - Ida Marandola, the General Director of the Council for Research in Agriculture and the Analysis of Land Economy (CREA), has been arrested on suspicion of “grave irregularities” in the manage

ROME - Post offices and CAF agencies across Italy have been overwhelmed by the number of requests for the new citizenship income scheme that the Government has introduced.

ROME - Italy go into the final two rounds of this year’s Guinness Six Nations staring, yet again, down the barrel of the competition’s wooden spoon.

ANCONA - A man has died and two others left injured following an accident at an Eni rig in Ancona in which a crane came unstuck from its platform.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis announced on Monday that the Vatican would open its archives on controversial Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII next year.

TRAPANI - Police of the Provincial Command of Trapani have arrested 25 people facing allegations of mafia association, political-mafia electoral exchange, extortion and damage.

ROME - The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Timo Soini, 57, has recently made a working visit to Italy and to the Vatican City, meeting both representatives of the Italian and the Vatican go

ROME - Nicola Zingaretti, current President of the Regional Government of Lazio, has been elected as the new Secretary of the Democratic Party [PD] and will assume office on the 17th March 2019.

VATICAN CITY – The family of Emanuela Orlandi have submitted a formal request to the Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Pietro Parolin, appealing for the reopening of a burial recess at the Teuton

ROME - Juventus took an important step to securing an 8th successive Serie A title with an away win against a spirited Napoli team this weekend.

AGRIGENTO – Accused of associations with the mafia, drug trafficking and dealing, illegal possession of weapons, kidnapping for extortion and other charges, 32 people were arrested in the Sicilian

GELA - Rocco Greco, a 57-year-old entrepreneur and businessman from Sicily who rebelled against Mafia bosses, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

VENICE - The ninth edition of Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival will be held from 20 to 23 March 2019, in Auditorium Santa Margherita of Venice.

ROME - The Italian State paid more than 10 million euros to the Lazio Region over a 25 year period for the construction of an adult ward for patients with cystic fibrosisin the Policlinico Umberto

ROME–The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) was hosting from Wednesday a photo exhibition at its Headquarters in the Eternal City to acknowledge the generous contributions G

ROME – British Member of European Parliament (MEP) Jude Kirton-Darling backed the Association of Foreign Lecturers in Italy’s (ALLSI) call to European Commissioner of Justice Věra Jourová for the C

ROME - In the rankings of Italian universities reported by QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019, the world university classification by discipline, Italy has considerably improved.