A strong earthquake measuring 6.6 magnitude struck central Italy on Sunday, causing the collapse of more buildings in small cities and towns already shaken by tremors in the past two months ...
Rome's ill-fated bid to host the 2024 Olympics was definitively buried on Thursday when the city council voted in favour of the new mayor's request to withdraw support for it.
An earthquake flattened towns in central Italy in the early hours of Wednesday, killing at least 120 people and burying some alive in their sleep, with volunteers and firefighters racing to free those trapped under mounds of rubble as darkness fell.
An Afghan migrant travelled 400 kilometres along an Italian highway strapped to the bottom of a lorry with leather belts, police said on Tuesday.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi was trounced by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement in local elections in Rome and Turin, clouding his chances of winning a do-or-die referendum in October.
Voters in the Italian capital went to the polls on Sunday with all signs indicating that they will elect Virginia Raggi as the first female mayor of the Eternal City.
A controversial Italian gynaecologist famed for helping women in their 60s to have children is under house arrest in Rome on suspicion of removing eggs from a patient's ovaries without her consent.
A judge in Colourado has sentenced a woman to 100 years in prison for cutting an eight-month-old baby from a stranger's womb with kitchen knives, local media reported.
Eighty-four migrants are still missing after an inflatable craft sank off the coast of Libya, according to survivors cited by the International Organization for Migrantion (IOM) ...
Two Italians kidnapped last July in Libya were freed on Friday in a raid on Islamic State group hideouts in a city near the capital, officials in Libya and Rome said.
HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani being received at Ciampino Military Airport in Rome yesterday. The Emir is on an official visit to the Italian Republic.
