ROME — Pancrazio Caranno, 42, had whittled a shard of his prison cell’s ceramic toilet bowl into a knife, then stowed the weapon in his rectum.

 ROME – Italians have expressed outrage after Il Sole 24 Ore reported Italians paid 1.535 billion euros in traffic fines in 2023.

 ROME – Jannik Sinner claimed another victory on Sunday after he won the ATP 500 in Rotterdam.

 Sinner beat Australian Alex de Minaur in straight sets, 7-5, 6-4. 

 ROME - Italian President Sergio Mattarella has denounced the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in northern Russia as "bringing back memories of the darkest times in history." 

 ROME - Eni, Italy’s leading energy company, announced profits of 8.2 billion euros on Friday, i

 ROME – Julian Assange was made an honorary citizen of Rome after the City Council voted on the matter on Thursday.

 ROME – Police in Ferrara have carried out 24 searches in relation to 24 men between the ages of 20 and 30 who are accused of racism, violence and praising Nazism, the Ferrara State police said.

 ROME -- The father of a murdered Italian ambassador spoke out against the WFP "blackmailing" Italy after a preliminary court upheld diplomatic immunity for two World Food Programme employees alleg

 ROME ­— Italy’s only baby to be born with half a heart is now 36 years old — and the mother of newborn twins, La Repubblica reported. 

 ROME — A 54-year-old bricklayer killed his wife and two sons, 16 and five, “to free them from demons,” Carabinieri said he told them on Sunday.

 ROME – The two sons of mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro’s driver have been arrested, Palermo Carabinieri said.

 ROME – Two men in Monza have been arrested on charges of aggravated fraud after faking being disabled, Monza financial police have said.

 ROME - Debates have started after Italian singer Ghali said “stop the genocide” on stage at the Sanremo Music Festival during the live television broadcast on RAI1.

 VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis accused critics of his blessing gay Catholics of “hypocrisy” on Wednesday.

 ROME – Farmers were blocking Rome’s ring road on Friday, between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., a spokesperson for Riscatto Agricolo said. At least 500 tractors showed up to protest.

 ROME — Two years ago a Patti court sentenced 91 associates of the Tortorici Mafia to 600 total years of prison time for conspiring to receive more than five million euros of subsidies meant for Eu

 ROME - A delegation from the UK Parliamentary Defence Committee is in Rome this week to strengthen ties with Italy in the defence sector, the UK Ministry of Defence have said.

 ROME - A human trafficker involved with the Cutro shipwreck has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined 3 million euros, the Crotone tribunal court said. 

 In the heart of Rome, a city steeped in history and culture, the Ameri

 ROME -- “Venice is a place for all humanity, whoever comes to visit it must respect it”.

 ROME – A 48-year-old Italian man has been arrested in Iceland on charges of paedophilia, the Italian state police have confirmed.

 ROME – Maria Fida Moro, ex-senator and daughter of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro, has died aged 77, her family announced on Wednesday. She died in Rome after battling a long illness.

 ROME – A 72-year-old who was fined for filling in a pothole has had the penalty overturned, said the Justice of the Peace in Monza.