ROME-As Christendom awaits the canonisation of two beloved popes, the Eternal City battles to welcome as many as seven million people for the historic moment.

ROME-The letter of intent specifying the conditions under which Etihad will invest in Alitalia has arrived, a spokesman for Transport Minister Maurizio Lupi said Friday.

TURIN-“I like to think of VenTo as the string of a necklace” says Paolo Pileri, the tireless promoter of the scheme that is seeking to construct an unbroken cycle path along the river Po from Turin

ROME- Silvio Berlusconi will serve his sentence for tax fraud by completing community service caring for the elderly, according to the ruling pronounced Tuesday by the Surveillance Court.

ROME-Former Senator Marcello Dell’Utri’s decisive trial due Tuesday was expected to be rescheduled following deferment requests from his defense lawyers on the grounds of illness.

ROME– Britain has told Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s Government that Italy must “find a solution” to “unacceptable and illegal” discrimination of UK lecturers, Europe Minister David Lidington says.

ROME-Four thousand immigrants have been rescued by Italian coast guards off Sicily within the last 48 hours, and the arrivals continue, the Interior Ministry confirmed.

ROME-German lecturers make their voice heard in the ongoing lettori dispute in an open letter addressed to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

ROME-The Italian government promises the highest commitment to a positive solution of the Micron industrial dispute.

ROME-Up to 110 million euros could be saved within the next three years from a 20 percent cut to Italian diplomats’ income, announced Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini.

ROME—Queen Elizabeth left Rome after a flying four-hour visit featuring a stop at the Presidential palace and her first meeting with Pope Francis.

ROME--As his UK trip ended, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi met representatives of banks and financial groups to discuss privatisation of Poste Italiane, Fincantieri shipbuilding company and SACE expor

ROME—The city council of Turin has revoked the honorary citizenship granted to Fascist leader Benito Mussolini by royal decree in 1924.

ROME– It is the last farewell to Gerardo D’Ambrosio, ex-district attorney of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Milan, who died at 83 years old last week end. 

VATICAN CITY—Entrepreneur Marcello Di Finizio continued his protest against the government’s economic policies and EU directives on top of St Peter’s Basilica.

ROME--The Finnish multinational group Fiskars plans to restructure its operations in Italy in order to improve its competitiveness and cost structure.

ROME -- US President Barrack Obama had a "cordial and warm"  audience with Pope Francis Thursday at the start of his visit to Italy and the Vatican, the Holy See said.

ROME-A dossier on Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s former residence has been opened by the Prosecutor’s office in Florence following a report by a town council staff membe

ROME-"Space and Time in Landscape", a conversation among Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann, Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli and Flavio de Marco, will take place at Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia.

ROME-Awaiting U.S. President Obama's arrival in the Eternal City this Thursday, Unioncamere Toscana calculates the value generated by Americans in Italy.

ROME-The Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, one of the most popular Apulian folk groups, will perform a concert in the Finnish capital, Helsinki,  March 30.

ROME -- IFAD has vowed to cooperate with authorities investigating alleged involvement by United Nations Rome staff in a "baby call girl" racket rocking Italy's establishment.

AVE MARIA, FL--How did we get from Renaissance Art, faith embodied, to Abstract Art, art without recognizable content, and to Conceptual Art, art which is completely disembodied?