ROME - Some might say FAO Director, Dr QU Dongyu, became slightly side-tracked when he began his closing remarks at the Joint Meeting of the Programme and Finance Committees by talking about hims

 ROME – Michael Ivy, who has died at age 70, started work at the British Council in Naples as a young teacher in 1980 and didn’t move to Rome from his beloved Nea

 ROME - Monsignor Baldassarre Reina, the new Cardinal Vicar for the Diocese of Rome, has taken up the voice of the city's frustrated inhabitants, denouncing the 'delays and disorder' resulting from

 ROME - the Trevi Fountain is set to undergo an 'extraordinary maintenance' project in the next few months, which will give tourists a remarkable view of the iconic artwork.

 ROME - Wednesday saw the debut of a brand new concept exhibition at Rome's beloved MAXII - the city's leading museum for contemporary art.

 ROME - Maurizio Gasparri, Senate leader of Forza Italia, has called for a reconsideration on a potential plan to further elevate bank taxes in an interv

 ROME – On Wednesday night riots broke out in the Regina Coeli prison, after inmates in the eighth section refused to return to their cells.

  ROME--The stolen “Roaring Lion” portrait of Winston Churchill is returning home to Canada after it was sold to a buyer in Italy, the Canadian Embassy announced.

ROME -  The conference about Maritime security and the role of the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) was held in Rome at the Egic  headquarters in Rome on wednesday evening.

 ROME -- An investigation has been opened into potential malice which caused a large scale fire in the city on Wednesday afternoon, injuring four emergency workers, Rome's public prosecutor's offic

 ROME -- Investigations are ongoing to understand why a plane travelling from Corfu to London Gatwick was forced to emergency land in Rome.

 ROME -- An anti-racism mural of Paola Egonu, the Italian volleyball player and newly-crowned Olympic champion, has been defaced in Rome on Sunday night.

ROME -- Two families were evacuated on Monday evening as another fire broke out in Rome. The fire has since been put out and there is no immediate danger, the mayor of Artena has said.

ROME -- Popular Italian actor and director Carlo Verdone has spoken to Rome’s mayor Roberto Gualtieri in a phone call to resolve any ill-feeling after a public spat in which Verdone criticised Rome

 ROME – Summer time and car rental companies are doing great business ripping off tourists with obscure pricing systems, many of which contravene Italian anti-tru

 ROME -- Two animal rights activists were arrested on Wednesday morning after peacefully protesting against bullfighting during the Pope Francis’s weekly general audience in Rome’s St Peter’s Squar

  ROME -- The show, TLAPITZALLI Rites and Sounds of Ancient Mexico, curated by Frida Montes de Oca Fiol, will be on display at the Scuderie del Quirinale from July 30 to September 15.