ROME - Italian radio journalist Antonio Megalizzi, who was critically injured in the Strasbourg attack on Tuesday night, has died in hospital.

ROME - Brazilian Supreme Court judge Luis Fux has ordered the arrest of fugitive terrorist Cesare Battisti, paving the way to his extradition.

ROME - To the dismay of tourists and residents alike, Barberini metro station has become an 'exit-only' stop, and Spagna remains closed.

ROME - Members of the League breathed a sigh of relief Wednesday, as it was announced that the Scuola Normale in Pisa would not be opening a second branch in Naples.

ROME – Raffaele Marra, the former right-hand man of mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi, has been handed a jail sentence of three years and six months for corruption, judicial sources report.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has removed esteemed cardinals including George Pell from the C-9 (Council of Cardinals) following a string of sexual abuse accusations against their names.

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is addressing its long-standing fiscal difficulties head on by forcing many of its employees into early retirement, Il Messaggero reports.

PALERMO – Three earthquakes of magnitudes between 2.7 and 3.5 have been recorded between Wednesday night and Thursday morning in region of the Madonie mountains, seismologists report.

ROME – Both Inter Milan and Napoli endured nights-to-forget as the Serie A high-fliers missed out on qualification for the last 16 of the Champions League, overtaken by Tottenham and Liverpool, res

ROME - In light of a huge fire at a waste plant on Via Salaria, Rome’s administration has been urged to tackle the city's refuse crisis.

ROME – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has caused "concern" and "embarrassment" from within the Italian defence ministry during a visit to Israel over his comments characterising Hezbollah as “ter

ROME – A fire that broke out at a refuse plant in the outskirts of Rome has left “toxic smoke” and a “pungent smell” in parts of the capital on Tuesday morning, Rome’s municipal offices report.

ROME - Messages of disgust began pouring in Monday, as news broke that twenty bronze bricks dedicated to Holocaust victims were stolen from a Roman street overnight.

ROME – An Italian technology firm, the Milan Hacking Team, is suspected of providing the Saudi Arabian government with the spy software used to follow Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist murdered in th

CORINALDO – A 15-year-old boy, believed to be at fault for the use of pepper spray in a nightclub, which caused the deaths of six people, has been arrested for po

PALERMO – The suspected new head of the Cosa Nostra was arrested on Tuesday morning in a string of Sicilian Mafia arrests, police sources report.

ROME – The complicated historical narrative of sovereignty claims from Bahrain and Qatar over the town of Al-Zubara were presented by noted historian Dr Gerald Power at the headquarters of the Euro

ROME - When it comes to fighting organised crime, Italy has the expertise.

ROME - Donal Brown, IFAD Associate Vice-President, Programme Management Department, met with government officials during a four-day visit to Egypt centred around IFAD investments to galvanize rural

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has expressed his concern about the presence of "fashionable" homosexuality among the clergy of the Catholic Church, moving away from his previous more liberal statement

ROME - The Rome Public Prosecutor’s Office has placed dozens of people, including art critic and MP Vittorio Sgarbi, under investigation on suspicion of art forgery.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis entertained the possibility of selling disused, empty Italian churches to raise money for the poor in his address at the Episcopalian Conference, Il Messaggero reports o

ROME – After yet another disappointing meeting between Italian and Egyptian investigators to examine Giulio Regeni's murder, Chamber of Deputies President Roberto Fico has declared Italy will sever

ROME – Inter Milan struggled against a revived Tottenham side in London in the Champions League, while Napoli’s win at home to Red Star brought them one step closer to the last 16 of the European c

ROME - According to a a report published recently by the Italian National Statistics Institute (ISTAT), there were 45 thousand fewer births in 2017 than in 2014, and 120 thousand fewer than in 2008