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Emilia-Romagna floods kill at least 14 people.
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday travelled home a day early from the G7 summit in Japan to visit the northern Emilia-Romagna region devastated by floods....
Springsteen comes to Rome amid controversy over Ferrara concert.
Final preparations are underway in Rome ahead of a sold-out concert by Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band at the Circus Maximus on Sunday.
Springs...
Michelangelo's David make news headlines again after Florida school controversy.
An advertising poster created by an Italian restaurant in Glasgow featuring Michelangelo's David has been rejected by the company that man...
Open House Roma takes place from 20-28 May.
Rome hosts a bumper edition of the Open House initiative which opens the doors of more than 200 of the city’s most fascinating buildings, both ancient and modern, over the cou...
Formula One Grand Prix cancelled due to floods.
Ferrari has donated €1 million towards relief efforts in Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region in the wake of the devastating floods that have caused the deaths of at lea...
Italian cabinet to meet to discuss emergency situation.
The death toll from the devastating floods in Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region rose to 13 on Thursday, Italian media reported, as thousands of evacuated peop...
Vatican police fired shot at vehicle.
A man was arrested on Thursday evening after he drove at high speed through one of the gates into Vatican City, forcing his way through two checkpoints and reaching a central courty...
Decision to postpone strike comes as death toll from Emilia-Romagna floods rises to 11.
A strike by airport ground handling staff in Italy scheduled for Friday 19 May has been postponed until Sunday 4 June, transport mi...
Interview with Kacie Rose Burns, the Florence-based content creator with almost a million followers on TikTok.
by Elizabeth Djinis
Kacie Rose Burns, 29, couldn’t quite have imagined how much her solo trip to Italy an...
The American University of Rome (AUR) will confer honorary doctoral degrees.
The American University of Rome (AUR) will confer honorary doctoral degrees on Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and Carlo Pe...
Death toll from floods in northern Italy rises to nine.
This weekend's Formula One Grand Prix in Imola has been called off due to severe flooding in Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region where at least nine people have...
Rome's Stadio Olimpico was inaugurated 70 years ago today, on 17 May 1953.
However the stadium's history dates back to 1928 when construction began on a smaller structure – known as the Stadio dei Cipressi – built on th...
Hundreds evacuated in Emilia-Romagna region.
At least two people have died and several are missing in Italy's north-eastern Emilia-Romagna region after heavy rains caused severe flooding on Tuesday.
One man drowned i...
Rome investigation follows new probe by Vatican.
Rome prosecutors have opened a new investigation into the case of Emanuela Orlandi who disappeared aged 15 on her way home to Vatican City after a music lesson on 22 June...
Free visits to Italy's castles, villas and gardens on 21 May.
Italy sees the return of the National Day of the Italian Historic Houses Association (ADSI), now in its 13th edition, on Sunday 21 May.
More than 500 cas...
New UK embassy building to reinforce relationship with Holy See.
UK minister for Europe, Leo Docherty, on Thursday opened new offices of the British embassy to the Holy See, together with Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagh...
Zelensky visit has not been confirmed by Rome or Kyiv.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to visit Rome this weekend for talks with Pope Francis and Italy's premier Giorgia Meloni, sources told Italian new...
Riccardo Scamarcio to play Modigliani in movie.
Johnny Depp is to direct a new film about the artist Amedeo Modigliani with Italian star Riccardo Scamarcio in the title role alongside Hollywood legend Al Pacino and Fren...
Starbucks to open at Termini Station in coming days.
A queue of tourists and Italians on Thursday waited to enter Italy's newest Starbucks, located on a small side street opposite the Italian parliament in the historic...
Borromini e Bernini. Sfida alla perfezione in Italian cinemas for three days.
Cinemas in Italy will show a film documenting the rivalry between Baroque masters Francesco Borromini and Gian Lorenzo Bernini for three days...
Italian jogger was killed by male bear, not female, new DNA test claims.
Animal rights activists have called for the immediate release of the female bear accused of killing a jogger in Italy's northern Trento province o...
Rome mayor slams latest "senseless" stunt.
Italian climate activists poured black liquid into the waters of Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in Rome's central Piazza Navona on Saturday afternoon.
The four activi...
The Boss to play three concerts in Italy in 2023.
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band return to Italy with three concerts on a 19-date tour of Europe.
In between concerts in Ferrara on 18 May and Monza on 25 July...
Cardinal Parolin to make history by attending coronation.
The Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, is to represent Pope Francis at the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in Westminster Ab...
Napoli celebrates third Scudetto win.
Naples erupted in fireworks on Thursday night after local team Napoli claimed their first Serie A title in 33 years, earning the final point they needed in a 1-1 draw against northe...
Bridget Riley ceiling mural 'Verve' unveiled on 4 May.
The British School at Rome (BSR) unveiled the first ceiling painting by Bridget Riley, the celebrated English artist known for her op art paintings, on 4 May.
Ri...
Protesters block traffic in central Rome.
Six climate activists linked to the Ultima Generazione group stopped traffic in the centre of Rome on Thursday morning by stripping off and lying down across Via del Tritone....
A look at three landmark embassy buildings in Rome.When an out-of-pocket diplomat named Niccolò Machiavelli came to Rome in 1503, the city was a hotspot of intrigue, information gathering and spying.
Here, he would have...
Baths of Diocletian hosts L’istante e l’eternità. Tra noi e gli antichi from 4 May until 30 July.
An ancient ceremonial carriage discovered at Civita Giuliana near Pompeii is one of the star attractions in a major new e...
Starbucks set to open in centre of Rome on 11 May.
Starbucks is preparing to open a new outlet opposite the Italian parliament in central Rome, as the American multinational coffee chain continues to expand in Italy....
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