ROME -- US President Barrack Obama had a "cordial and warm"  audience with Pope Francis Thursday at the start of his visit to Italy and the Vatican, the Holy See said.

ROME-A dossier on Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s former residence has been opened by the Prosecutor’s office in Florence following a report by a town council staff membe

ROME-"Space and Time in Landscape", a conversation among Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann, Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli and Flavio de Marco, will take place at Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia.

ROME-Awaiting U.S. President Obama's arrival in the Eternal City this Thursday, Unioncamere Toscana calculates the value generated by Americans in Italy.

ROME-The Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino, one of the most popular Apulian folk groups, will perform a concert in the Finnish capital, Helsinki,  March 30.

ROME -- IFAD has vowed to cooperate with authorities investigating alleged involvement by United Nations Rome staff in a "baby call girl" racket rocking Italy's establishment.

AVE MARIA, FL--How did we get from Renaissance Art, faith embodied, to Abstract Art, art without recognizable content, and to Conceptual Art, art which is completely disembodied?

ROME--Italy’s Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti has suspended payments for F-35 Strike Fighter planes purchases awaiting the results of a parliamentary fact-finding survey.

ROME- The Italy Reads program sponsored by John Cabot University connects Italian high school students with college students from JCU.

ROME– The Tiber, now more resembling a swamp, is inhabited by ducks, gulls, and garbage. Spring has finally arrived in Rome.

ROME—The Court of Cassation has confirmed Berlusconi’s two-year ban from public office for tax fraud disqualifying him from running in EU elections in May.

ROME-A collection of weapons, letters, personal objects and the emblematic red shirts has been brought to the public for the first time in the newly opened Garibaldi Museum in Amorosi.

BERLIN--Apulia's delegate for Tourism Silvia Godelli announced that "for the second consecutive year, the stand of Apulia was honored at ITB Berlin as the 3rd best exhibitor in the category Europe

VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis will be joined by around 700 relatives of mafia victims in a vigil to pray for the innocent who lost their lives to mafia violence.

 VATICAN CITY—On the first anniversary of his election Pope Francis asked his twitter followers for prayers while on a spiritual retreat in Ariccia.  

VATICAN CITY—Priests and seminarians from around the world will descend on the pitches at the Pontificio Oratorio to compete in this tiny city state`s soccer championsh

ROME—Taxi drivers at Fiumicino airport refuse to pick up passengers in a strike against illegal practices in passenger transport industry.

Dear Anibal, Again, Italian politics is shifting- You, and many of my friends, have asked me to explain what is happening.

ROME--In a year marked by significant war anniversaries, the question of importance of remembrance and honouring the past seems more relevant than ever.

BRUSSELS -A UK MEP has demanded to know why Commissioner Andor wants sanctions on Switzerland over free movement but condones Italy's discrimination of foreign lettori.