ROME – British biographer Lucy Hughes-Hallett will be reading from, and discussing, her award-winning biography on poet Gabriele D’Annunzio on Oct 9.

ROME - Four clients accused of relations with two under-aged prostitutes in the Parioli area of Rome have agreed to a plea-bargain to avoid trial.

ROME- The American University of Rome has announced a new Master’s Programme in Food Studies.

ROME – Three immigrants were beaten up on Sunday night by locals who took to the streets of Corcolle to protest attacks on two Atac buses.

ROME – Security around St. Peter's Square has been doubled recently due to an increased concern of a possible terrorist threat against Pope Francis and the Vatican.

Rome – Italy was strongly reprimanded on Monday by the European Council’s Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking of Human Beings (GRETA), regarding an apparent rise of illegally smuggled pe

ROME – Less than a week after the brutal stabbing death of a 52-year old Romanian man, the murder of yet another immigrant has rocked the Torpignattara district of Rome.

ROME – Italian PM Matteo Renzi has praised the decision of the Scottish people to remain in the UK as a triumph for diversity.

ROME-The Eternal City's travel writing festival launched its ne

VATICAN – On Sunday Pope Francis officiated at the marriages of twenty couples in Saint Peter’s Basilica, some of whom already cohabit or have children. 

ROME – A temporary exhibition on Victorian poet Robert Browning is to run at Keats-Shelley House from Sep. 22 to Feb. 28.

ROME – Official statistics show that industrial production in Italy has sunk to its lowest point in five years.

ROME – Mattia Martinello, 18, in a coma Tuesday after falling whilst trying to take a selfie with friends at the Colosseum.

ROME – A scholarship in memory of Professor James Walston aims to send students of the American University of Rome to Turkey.

ROME– The Italian Beaches Union have reported a sharp decrease in tourism over the last two months.

ROME– Lorenzo, a 5-year-old boy from Taranto, has died after battling cancer caused by pollution from the Ilva steelworks.

ROME- Muriel Spark’s voice, which died in 2006, is heard again through this collection of her occasional prose put together by her companion, the sculptor Penelope Jardine.

ROME – The rate of youth unemployment in July was esteemed to be 43.7 percent, the highest it has been since 1977, ISTAT (National Institute of Statistics) revealed.

 NAPLES – Thief Antonio Mannalà was shot dead by a Naples police officer after stealing an automobile on Wednesday, police said.

 ROME – New security barriers to be fitted in Termini station will only enable ticket holders to access train platforms, said Mayor Ignazio Marino on Wednesday.

 ROME-Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s government was defeated on Thursday over part of its bill to reform the Senate with 154 Senators in favour, 147 against and two abstentions.

 ROME-Three stray dogs have attacked a woman on her jog through a Roman park.