ROME-- The New Yorker has a crowd of furry animals rushing over a cliff until one of them realises that they are lemurs, not lemmings.

ROME-- Centre-left candidate Ignazio Marino defeated post-Fascist Gianni Alemanno to become Mayor of Rome in a run-off election Monday, officials said.

ROME-- The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) signed in Rome a €600 million loan for rebuilding industrial infrastructure in areas hit by the earthquake in Emilia-Romagna one year ago.

ROME—Rome city council, where controversial Mayor Gianni Alemanno is running for re-election at the end of this week, seems to be having difficulty paying its suppliers.

 ROME– A gunman fired shots at Palazzo Chigi, the office of Prime Minister Enrico Letta, Sunday, wounding two Carabinieri paramilitary police and a passer by as Italy's new Government was sworn in.

 ROME – The new governing council of Rome’s Foreign press club in Humility Street is “deadlocked” over plans to re-design its website that sadly often has little information about key events, club

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis appealed for peace in the Middle East, Africa and the Koreas in his first Easter Urbi et Orbi Easter Sunday address in St. Peter's Square.

 ROME -- Pope Francis celebrated his first Way of the Cross ceremony for Easter Friday as pontiff at the Colosseum this evening, watched by thousands of the faithful.

ROME - “What can a poor boy do in sleepy London town?” sings Mick Jagger in The Rolling Stones hit Street Fighting Man

VATICAN CITY- Benedict XVI resigned his pontificate and flew out of the Vatican Thursday after pledging to obey his successor to St Peter's Throne.

ROME – Italy’s august Foreign Press Association is set to disappear unless it re-discovers its lost sense of solidarity, a candidate for the club presidency says.

Local theatre troupe Rome Savoyards is performing Thornton Wilder’s classic The Skin of Our Teeth this week at Teatro San Genesio.

ROME - There is a spectre haunting Italy - the spectre of the Beppe Grillo, the Genoese comic turned populist leader of the Five Star Movement (M5S).

 VATICAN CITY– Catholic Cardinals sent a white smoke signal this evening from the Sistine Chapel after they were able to elect a new pope.

ROME - Frediano Manzi, founder of an association against racket and usury, set fire to himself outside the headquarters of the Italian national television channels RAI.