ROME --Some 16 men who allegedly used personal data from thousands of unwitting Romanians to amass 15 million euros of citizenship income have been arrested, curtailing their plan to sei

 MONZA --Teenage boys at Zucchi High School wore skirts to class to demonstrate their objection to “sexism” and “toxic masculinity."

 CATANIA -- In many of Italy’s universities, salaries for foreign language lecturers or ‘lettori’ in Italian, are not compliant with European guidelines.

 ROME --Adelina Sejdini, an Albanian woman who denounced a number of her country’s prostitution mafia mobsters, has committed suicide after struggling to obtain Italian citizenship, polic

 FERRARA --The restaurateur, Gianfranco Vissani, said at a culinary event that citizenship income is the reason for a lack of young workers in the restaurant industry, however research in

 MILAN --A 50-year-old man walled his mother’s corpse in his house and continued to receive her 1,700 euros a month pension for almost two years until his new girlfriend reported him, police announ

 FLORENCE -The latest exhibition in Palazzo Strozzi, ‘Shine’ by artist Jeff Koons, has attracted 50,000 visitors in the first month of opening, 60 per cent of whom came from outside Florence, annou

 NAPLES - The city’s tribunal has dismissed the accusation of ‘anti-union conduct’ put forward by the metalworkers' trade unions (FIOM) against US company Whirlpool for laying off over 30

 ROME -The Community of Sant-Edigio was signing a protocol Thursday to allow for humanitarian corridors between Afghanistan and Italy, the Vatican announced Wednesday.

 LAMPEDUSA -Just under 400 migrants stranded in the Mediterranean were rescued Tuesday night by German NGO rescue ships, Sea Eye 4 and Missions Lifeline, the NGOS announced Wednesday.

 TRIESTE - The ‘Anti-Green Pass Capital’ of Italy has seen an “exponential increase in new cases, like last autumn,” pushing the region’s prefect to ban protests in the main square, sourc

 NAPLES – The Trianon Viviani theatre, dedicated to Neapolitan music, opened a unique and innovative project Monday called the Room of Wonders - an ‘immersive reality’ of Neapolitan song.

NAPLES - In the dark and sad days of lockdown, the one consolation was everyone was able to reflect for longer.

 CAGLIARI -A pastry chef, Angelo Brancasi, was arrested Thursday night after he confessed to murdering Alessio Madeddu, a fisherman and celebrity cook from Teulada whose corpse was discov

 PADUA - This ancient Veneto city’s mayor and bishop have announced they will stay away from the President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, on his upcoming visit Monday to the Basilica del Sant

 ROME - Vitali Alekseenok, a 29-year-old Belarusian conductor, is the winner of the 11th Edition of the ‘Arturo Toscanini’ International Competition for Orchestra Conductors said the organisers.

 BRESCIA - Mayor Emilio Del Bono with the support of his council, has stood up to Chinese pressure to cancel an exhibition by dissident artist Badiucao, local media revealed.

 CATANIA – A 53-year-old man has drowned after being swept away by an overflowing river – the latest death to come as a result of extreme weather in Sicily, police said.

 ROME - Enrollments in a course on exorcism at the Sacerdos Institute of the Pontifical University Regina Apostolorum have increased significantly over Covid-19 as "with the virus, reques

 CATANIA - A fight that broke out over seating at a child’s first communion led to the paternal grandfather firing a pistol and seriously injuring a Carabiniere, police said.

ROME - A new project to provide free nurseries to children from struggling households will be presented at the Senate Tuesday, announced the creators, NGO ‘Bon’t Worry.’ The project, titl

 CATANIA - Eastern Sicily was hit by thunderstorms and heavy rains this weekend, resulting in flooding and hundreds of rescue operations, with two people in Scordia still missing, police

 PALERMO – The actor Richard Gere will testify alongside senior member of the Italian government in the trial againt far-right party leader Matteo Salvini, judicial sources confirmed Saturday.

 TURIN - National fencing champion, Giulio Gaetani, is fighting to change an antiquated law that is preventing him from working for both the Carabinieri and the army solely because he is