LIBYA – Six migrants are dead and some 110 have been rescued after an overcrowded dinghy bound for Europe capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast,

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis vowed to “eradicate” sexual abuse in the Church following the release of an internal report on the Holy See's mishandling of allegations against former U.S.

 GENOA – Police have arrested the former CEO of Autostrade, Giovanni Castellucci, in relation to the Morandi bridge collapse in Genoa that left 43 people dead in 2018, police sources said on Wednes

 ROME – Small businesses providing essential services for Italians as diverse as tattoo parlours and sex shops as well as clothes boutiques and dance schools will receive financial grants from the

 ROME – As Donald Trump pursues legal challenges to the US election results, the Catholic Church has joined world leaders in congratulating Joe Biden as American’s President-Elect.

 TURIN – Isabella Rossellini, the daughter of cinema legends Italian neorealist filmmaker Roberto Rossellini and Swedish Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman was being b

 NAPLES – The historic Caffè Gambrinus coffeehouse that can count among its patrons the Irish writer Oscar Wilde and famed author Ernest Hemingway, has become the latest casualty of Covid, announci

 ROME – What are the hopes for Venice’s future? Neal Robbins’ book provides clues and also shows why its future is important.

ROME – Tougher new measures to combat Covid-19 that sees Italy divided into three colour-coded areas based on contagion risk, have drawn the ire of regional governors, political sources said on Thu

 ROME - Mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi is the latest political figure to self-isolate after testing positive for coronavirus.

 ROME – Italy’s government is introducing tougher measures – including a nationwide curfew – to stem coronavirus contagion following the latest daily figures that

 ROME – Former Forza Italia senator Denis Verdini, for years a close advisor to Silvio Berlusconi, Wednesday began his first full day behind bars after losing his

 MILAN – Police are hunting a gang of armed bandits that held up a Milan bank and escaped via the sewers, police sources said on Tuesday.

 PERUGIA – After testing positive for COVID-19 a few days ago, Archbishop of Perugia-Città della Pieve and president of the Italian Bishop’s Conference (CEI), Car

 ROME – Former Roma football club captain Francesco Totti said he had a fever and a feeling of weakness before getting a test that returned a positive result for

 ROME – Italian PM Giuseppe Conte is stuck in a tug-of-war with regional governors as details of a new government decree to combat the surge of COVID-19 were bein

 ROME – After a film and stage career spanning more than five decades, much loved Italian actor, comedian and director Gigi Proietti has died on his 80

 ROME — Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was meeting with coalition party leaders Friday evening to discuss whether or not to allow more regione to close schools af

 MILAN – The woman dubbed the “Cardinal’s Lady,” arrested after becoming embroiled in a Vatican money scandal, has been released on parole, judicial sources said on Friday.

 ROME – The continuing surge in coronavirus infections has Italian medical experts fearing hospitals will soon be overwhelmed, with the Conte government expected

 ROME – The Tunisian man who murdered three people – beheading one – in a knife attack at the Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice, had landed on the island of Lampedusa a

 ROME – Italy’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has adopted a “wait and see” approach to Covid before implementing further restrictions as the country hits a new re

 NICE – The Vatican has condemned the knife attack that left three people dead and wounded several others in the French city of Nice, the Holy See said on Thursda

 ROME – Founder of the Five Star Movement Beppe Grillo has been slammed for sharing a hotel Facebook post advertising a special dinner offer at a rooftop restaura