ROME - Mayor Giuseppe Restiani and seven of the ten municipal councillors (four majority and three opposition) have resigned after a political earthquake involving a sadomasochist themed party.

 ROME - Francesco Spano, the chief of staff to Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, has resigned.

 ROME – A Toyota factory in Bologna has closed until further notice following the deaths of two workers caught in an explosion on Wednesday.

 PALERMO - It was definitely unexpected. It seemed that Palermo arte galleries golden age had passed irrevocably.

 ROME - Emanuele Tufano was shot dead at around 2 a.m. on Thursday in Naples on Corso Umberto.

  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 – After months of trials and tribulations, the Kurdish-Iranian activist Maysoon Majidi has been released from prison in Calabria, where she was detained for allegedly facilitating illegal imm

 ROME - Tuesday’s Champions League action saw three Italian teams face off in the third match week of the tournament.

 ROME - it is not just Emilia Romagna which has been ravaged by torrential rainfall this weekend; yesterday, in Calabria, officials requested that a state of emergency be declared after burst river

 ROME - On Tuesday, more than 1,500 buyers, importers and distributors had the chance to get to know 1,650 labels from in excess of 230 wineries based in seven regions of Italy – Calabria, Campania

 ROME - On Monday in Medellin great relief was felt internationally when Colombian police arrested Italian Mafia boss Gustavo Nocella, thus bringing to an end the six month operation trying to trac

   MILAN - Two Chinese citizens confronted a man stealing dozens of lottery tickets from their bar in Milan.

 ROME - Milan's State Police are in the process of carrying out investigations across Italy into a 'national network' of neo-Nazi minors, according to police sources. 

 Rome - The Eni Award ceremony took place at the Quirinale Palace, in the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Eni Giuseppe Zafaran

 ROME - Ulbaldo Manuali was sentenced to 9 years and 10 months for rape by impersonating American actor Keanu Reeves on social media in order to lure women.

;ROME - 2024's Tiramisu' World Cup, hosted this year in Treviso from Oct. 10-13, was an Italian competition with an international reach. 

 ROME - Police investigations are underway in Florence to determine the identity of a man who has allegedly raped an 18-year-old American exchange student in the streets (source: Florence Police Fo

 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