ROME - With just one round of fixtures remaining in this year’s Series A there is still a lot to be decided at the top

  ROME - At 9:30 a.m. on Monday morning 40 refugees arrived in Fiumicino from the Greek island of Lesbos.

  ROME - Rafael Nadal has won his 10th Rome Masters, and 88th ATP title, after beating the world No. 1 Novak Djokovic 7-5 1-6 6-3 on Sunday. 

  LIVORNO - Port workers and authorities in the Tuscan port of Livorno have refused to set sail on the ship Asiatic Island after it was discovered that it held a cargo of arms and explosiv

  PRATO - A technical consultant for Prato’s public prosecutor’s office has declared that the security systems on the weaving machine that kille

  ROME - Italian Covid-19 contagion numbers have continued their gradual decrease, with the R number this week dropping from 0.89 to 0.86 and cases now being at 96 per 100,000 people, compared to l

  ROME - In light of the numerous reported cases of Italian and European citizens being detained and deported by the UK’s border force, Benedetto Della Vedova, Undersecretary of State for Foreign A

  AOSTA - Much to the consternation of several environment groups in Valle d'Aosta, the region's council has approved a law to allow for the killing of wolves in the region, for the "defence of peo

  ROME - The right wing party Fratelli d’Italia has, according to the latest polls, this week become Italy’s second most popular party, behind the League, with the 5 Star Movement (M5S) slipping to

  ROME - Elisabetta Belloni has become the first woman in charge of Italy’s Department of Information Security (DIS) after her nomination by Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

  ROME - Until now being a mafia apologist, unlike for terrorism, has never been a crime in Italy. ‘Neomelodico’ songs (songs in the traditional Italian style but with a modern twist) are often hea

  PALERMO - “All Lives Matter.

  MILAN - A plate of 13 fossilised fish dating back to the Cretaceous period (145.5 - 65.5 milion years ago) in Lebanon has been returned to the Consul General of Lebanon in Milan, Dr.

  NAPLES - The Mayor of Naples Luigi De Magistris has denied rumours that he will resign amidst reports that several Italian councils, including Naples, Turin and Palermo, are on the edge of bankru

  LAMPEDUSA - “At least five people, among them one child, drowned when their boat capsized, while survivors were brought to shore by fishermen,” said Safa Msehli, a spokesperson for the UN’s Inter

  ROME - The first round of Serie A matches after Inter Milan’s coronation last week were a goal-filled affair, with the champions beating Sampdoria 5-1, Roma walloping Crotone 5-0 and Atalanta man

  PROCIDA - Italy's capital of culture for 2022, which recently became Italy's first 'covid-free island,' has now become the site of a different kind of record, after Vincenzo Ferri set a new Itali

  VATICAN CITY - Speaking after his Regina Caeli address on Sunday from the window of the Apsotolic Palace, Pope Francis spoke of his concern about the violence going on in Jerusalem, after clashes

  ROME - Despite putting up a good fight, with a 3-2 win over Manchester United in the second leg of their Europa League semi-final, it wasn’t enough to overturn their 6-2 defeat in the first leg,

  MISURATA - An Italian fisherman has been rescued by a Navy vessel after he was shot in the arm by the Libyan coast guard, fishing 75 miles off the coast of the Libyan city of Misrata.

  PARIS - Speaking at a preliminary hearing in the Court of Appeal in the French capital, nine former far-left Italian terrorists from the Red Brigades and other gangs arrested in France have refus

  ROME - The judges of the first Court of Assizes have sentenced Californians Finnegan Lee Elder and Gabriel Natale Hjorth to life imprisonment for the

   VATICAN CITY - Speaking in the Pope Video for May, Pope Francis laments that “the true economy, the one that creates work, is in crisis.” 

  PRATO - An investigation has been opened into the death of 22-year-old Luana D’Orazio, who was crushed to death by industrial machinery in the textile factory in which she was working, as thousan

  ROME - It has been announced that Portuguese manager José Mourinho is to take over at Roma next season, after the club made it known on Tuesday morning that current manager Paulo Fonseca, also Po