BERGAMO - The third edition of the Ermanno Olmi Prize for Best Short Film, promoting young filmmakers, has opened for entries, offering a prize of up to 1,200 euros for the winning entry.

  TARANTO - The Court of Assizes of Taranto have sentenced the former owners of the Ilva steel plant in Taranto, Fabio and Nicola Riva, to 22 and 20 years imprisonment respectively.

  ROME - On his first official visit to Italy since he took office in March, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah met with Italian PM Mario Draghi and spoke at an Italy-Libya business forum at

  FLORENCE - The all-female team, who for the last eight years have been restoring the interior of the New Sacristy of the Basilica of San Lorenzo, are this month preparing to officially reveal the

  PALERMO - Emanuele Burgio, the 26-year-old son of a former mafioso, has been shot and killed in the historic marketplace of Vucciria in Palermo, it is believed by rival drug dealers over territor

  FLORENCE - The 19-year-old Swiss Moto3 racer, Jason Dupasquier, has died in hospital after injuries sustained during a crash in a qualifying session for the Italian Grand Prix.

  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis received the athletics team of the Vatican City at a private audience on Saturday, discussing the "culture of fraternity" at the Ath

  ROME - As many as 70 many more refugees have landed in Rome's Fiumicino from refugee camps in Ethiopia.

  ROME – Two cars fell into a sinkhole in the road after a large chasm opened on via Zenodossio in the Torpignattura district of the Eternal City.

  MILAN - Carla Fracci, the ballet dancer, actress, and cultural “point of reference”, has died aged 84.

  ROME - The Ministry of Health, ISS (Higher Institute of Health) and regional councils have this week come to an agreement about the measures to be put in place in the case of a region becoming a

  LAKE MAGGIORE - Three people have been arrested in relation to the cable car crash on Sunday that killed 14 people on Mount Mottaro

  VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Tuesday expressed his condolences to the families of 14 people killed in a cable car crash in northern Italy.

  JOAO PESSOA - The ‘ndrangheta boss Rocco Morabito has been arrested in a hotel in Joao Pessoa, the capital of the stat

  GOMA - Several people have been arrested in the Congo for the murder on Feb.

  ROME - It all came down to the final day of this year’s Serie A, as AC Milan managed to steal second place from Atalanta, after beating them 2-0.

  LAKE MAGGIORE - As many as 14 people have died after a cable car derailed and crashed to the forest floor of Mount Matterone in the Piedmontese Alps.

  FAVIGNANA - Palermo's Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (TPC) have made the spectacular discovery of four ancient amphorae at the bottom of the sea off Favignana, an isl

  ROME - The British Ambassador to Italy, Jill Morris, has pledged that “there will be no more cases of this kind,” in r

  MILAN - The University of the People of Milan has donated 50,000 euros in grants to African students, legally resident in the EU without adequate financial funding.

  ROME - Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi met with the parents of Giulio Regeni at Palazzo Chigi as he expressed his commitment to "hold further meetings" to fight for truth and justice for Rege

  FOGGIA - The Mayor of Foggia, Franco Landella, has been arrested for charges of corruption and attempted bribery.

  ROME - Seven football referees have been suspended by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) as a cautionary measure while they are under investigation by the FIGC’s Federal Prosecutor for allege

  ROME - Speaking at a primary school in Rome, Italian President Sergio Mattarella announced that he will not be running

  ROME - On Wednesday morning the Senator for Life and Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre paid a visit to the Community of Sant'Egidio to meet its founder, Andrea Riccardi, together with other member