Over 5,000 people a month in Italy seek help from the Catholic relief organization Caritas because they are poor, according to a report presented by t…
Trajan's Markets reopened to the public Thursday after two and a half years of work shoring up the famed complex and stocking up its glittering new Mu…
Italian screen icons Monica Bellucci and Sophia Loren kicked off the Rome Cinema Festival on Thursday.Bellucci was first on the Red Carpet for her fes…
A pizza in the Vatican colours, a massive image of Benedict XVI on the cathedral and 14 kilometres of crush barriers are among the props being readied…
Italy won't be playing for the draw against Scotland that would be enough to see them through to Euro 2008, coach Roberto Donadoni said after Scotland…
Suzuki announced on Thursday that it will not renew the contract of Italian rider Max Biaggi for the 2008 Superbike season.Biaggi, a former Grand Prix…
Flash News - A mysterious foam has been floating for several weeks on northern Italy's Lago Maggiore and experts are at a loss to explain what it is a…
Rome's first solo show on Paul Gauguin looks at the resonance of the Eternal city's myths and legend in the the art of French post-Impressionist paint…
Factbox - The pope on Wednesday named the following 23 new cardinals, whose appointments will be formalised at a ceremony in the Vatican on November 2…
Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday named 23 new cardinals, including 18 who will join the group of 'princes of the Church' who must elect a successor when…
Juventus greats Marco Tardelli, Franco Causio and Roberto Boninsegna on Wednesday hailed club icon Alessandro Del Piero's long-sought deal to extend h…
Alitalia and Air France-KLM will open talks in the coming weeks regarding a possible sale of a controlling stake in the Italian airline to the French-…
The first step in a plan to tackle Milan's smog problem by making the worst polluters pay got under way on Tuesday.Under the scheme, drivers will even…
Legends and myths about the order of the Knights Templar, especially after Dan Brown's series of books on the subject, abound - so the relatively rece…
This southern Italian island's famous dessert wine Passito risks becoming extinct over the next decade unless the constant drop in production is rever…
Pope Benedict XVI marked World Food Day on Tuesday with a message urging all countries of the world to consider food a universal human right to be pro…
Italy coach Roberto Donadoni is set to field a largely experimental team in Wednesday's friendly against World Cup hosts South Africa in Siena - a key…
