VATICAN CITY -- Italians and tourists flocked to the official illumination of a very special Christmas tree in St.

 ROME -- Italy has the worst diesel fume pollution in Europe along with Britain, with many Italian cities deemed as having illicit quantities of air pollution, new data from the Italian environment

 ROME -- The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Director General José Graziano da Silva said that the UN agency will support the land reforms at the heart

 ROME --The tradition of the Sant’Egidio Christmas Lunch with the poor was born more than 30 years ago, and returns this festive season to welcome

ROME – The first steps towards reconciliation following the long crisis between Misrata and Zintan were made this week as representatives from the

 ROME -- The body of the missing 21-year-old Chinese Fine Art student from Hohhot, Zhang Yao, was found Friday at Tor Sapienza in the capital, police said. Zhang Yao was the daughter of a businessm

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis talked about Europe's "lack of forward-looking leaders," the success of the Jubilee, and media "sickness" in an interview with the Catholic weekly Tertio, excerpts of

 ROME -- The Egyptian public prosecutor Nabil Ahmed Sadek told the parents of the murdered university researcher Giulio Regeni, that the case will not be closed until justice is brought about, in a

 ROME -- The interrogation of ex-Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia, appointed head of the FAO’s liaison office, into her alleged abuse of office has been set back by a week, Peruvian newspaper El

 ROME -- The first government and business trade mission in Pakistan began Monday and will be underway until Wednesday, with the aim of deepening investment and collaboration opportunities between

 ROME -- Private investment banks have postponed the recapitalisation of Italy’s oldest bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena, while the Italian Treasury stands ready to approve a state recapitalisation,

ROME – The euro plunged to a 20-month low, slipping 1.3 percent to 1.0524 dollars as of 12:25am, following the result of the Italian referendum whi

 ROME -- The critically acclaimed Italian Orchestra of Cinema performed Academy Award winner John Williams’ mesmerising score Friday night to the p

 ROME -- After having closed the third section of the Mafia Capitale investigation, the capital’s public prosecutor’s office has asked for 24 more people to be put on trial, judicial sources said F

 LIMA --  FAO supremo is taking the micky out of Peru with his weasel-worded s

 ROME -- Italians in Australia will be involved in a heated Referendum debate in Italy on constitutional reform.  Their votes on Sunday, along with

 ROME -- Former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia, appointed as head of the FAO's liaison office, initially sent an application for a higher post at the organization's Office of Institutional Comm

 ROME – Romano Prodi, twice ex-Prime Minister of Italy, says, “I feel it is my duty to make my ‘Yes’ vote public,” doing so “in the hope that this