ROME -- “I want to sleep until I die, without any more pain,” said 70-year-old butcher Dino Bettamin, having suffered for five years from amyotrop

  ROME -- Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo, former Prime Minister of Togo, has been appointed as the sixth President of the International Fund for Agricultu

 VATICAN CITY – “How can a priest, at the service of Christ and the Church, come to cause so much pain?” asks Pope Francis in the preface of the bo

 VATICAN CITY -- A new spoof newspaper appeared on Friday in this tiny city state following a mysterious swathe of anti-Pope Francis propaganda inspired by hardli

 ROME-- On March 4 and 5 the sixth annual Spirit of Scotland Rome Whisky Festival will take place. This is the whisky industry’s biggest and most important meeting in Italy.

 ROME -- Andrea Mongiardo, 22 years following the transplant of American seven-year-old Nicholas Green’s heart in 1994,

 ROME -- A professor from the University of Roma Tre, Emma Nardi, has been sending back illiterate and grammatically incorrect emails from her stud

 ROME -- Head of the Association for Foreign Lecturers in Italy, Professor David Petrie, urged UK Minister for Brexit Mr.

 ROME -- The biography of a writer is normal procedure but the biography of a book?  Some books live on after the death of a writer and the story o

 ROME -- Francesco Rutelli, ex-Mayor of the Italian capital, had to resume the 12 exams he did not complete 40 years ago to gain a degree in ‘Plann

 ROME -- Lewes ‘Lew’ Eisenberg, the 75-year-old financial expert from Chicago who once managed the Twin Towers and saw them collapse, leaving many

 ROME -- The historic Quirinal Palace, one of the three official residences of the Italian President, costs more than double of the Queen of England’s residences, Il Fatto Quotidiano reports Tuesda

 ROME -- A face-to-face confrontation with Augustus, the Emperor who transformed Rome 2,000 years ago, the Italian Parliament buildings and all the surrounding squares and streets swept away leavin

 ROME -- The final day of the AltaRoma January edition arrived Sunday following a glamorous night previous when Mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, atte

  ROME -- The penultimate day of the AltaRoma shows opened with the contemporary Melampo

 ROME -- It appears this January edition of the AltaRoma shows is a gift that keeps on giving.