The Italian audit court has rejected government support for ReiThera COVID-19 vaccine outlets.
Italy's dreams of developing its own COVID-19 vaccine have been dashed after the state audit court dismissed a bid to invest public funds in local...
Why the Pope’s visit to Iraq is of symbolic importance
Pope Francis’s trip to the Middle East has illustrated the drive for coexistence that is possible in the region. During a visit to Iraq, the...
Pope Francis visits Holocaust survivor in Rome
On Saturday, Pope Francis made a visit to Edith Bruck, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, at her home in Rome. Vatican News reported the pope reading...
Italy’s parties enthuse over Draghi, 5-Star postpones online vote
Italy’s political parties on the left and right enthused at the prospect of backing a Mario Draghi government after meeting the prime minister-designate on Tuesday...
Italy’s president calls on Draghi to save country from crisis
Italian President Sergio Mattarella looks set to ask former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi to form a government of national unity to tackle the...
Renzi or bust? Italian parties’ options narrow in government crisis
Italy’s ruling parties are reluctantly coming to terms with the prospect of having to forge a new deal with the centrist Italia Viva party which...
Italy PM to resign on Tuesday after cabinet meeting – cabinet office
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will hand in his resignation to the head of state on Tuesday after convening the cabinet to inform ministers of...
Italy sends warning letter to Pfizer over COVID vaccine delays
The Italian government on Monday sent a letter of formal notice to Pfizer calling on the drug company to respect its contractual commitments over its...
Italy PM Conte to resign on Tuesday, seek fresh mandate
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will hand in his resignation to the head of state on Tuesday after a morning cabinet meeting to inform his...
Parts of Sydney may be too hot to live in ‘within decades’
As the planet warms and summers become longer and less bearable, severe heatwaves are coming to represent an existential threat to the Australian suburbs. Sydney...
Pope to miss events due to new flare up of leg pain -Vatican
Pope Francis has suffered a renewed flare-up of a sciatica condition that causes pain in his leg, forcing him to miss three events in the...
Italy reports 488 coronavirus deaths and 13,331 new cases
Italy reported 488 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday, up from 472 the day before, while the daily tally of new infections fell further to 13,331 from...
Italy tells TikTok to block users after death of young girl
The Italian data privacy watchdog ordered video app TikTok on Friday to block the accounts of any users in Italy whose age it could not...
Former head of Vatican bank guilty of embezzlement, money laundering
Caloia, 81, was president of the bank, officially known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR) between 1999 and 2009. A Swiss Guard is...
Italy thrown into political crisis as Renzi sinks government
Italy's former premier Matteo Renzi pulled his small party out of government, stripping the ruling coalition of its parliamentary majority and triggering political chaos, even...
Italy kicks off vaccinations against COVID-19 in Rome
Almost 10 months after the first Italian patient tested positive for the new coronavirus, Italy on Sunday vaccinated the first residents against COVID-19. Three health...
Pompeii: Ancient ‘fast food’ counter to open to the public
A "fast food" shop from the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in a volcanic eruption almost 2000 years ago, is to open...
Archaeologists uncover ancient street food shop in Pompeii
Archaeologists in Pompeii, the city buried in a volcanic eruption in 79 AD, have made the extraordinary find of a frescoed hot food and drinks...
Vatican permits use of COVID-19 vaccines made using aborted fetal tissue
The Vatican told Roman Catholics on Monday that it was morally acceptable to use COVID-19 vaccines even if their production employed cell lines drawn from...
Vatican permits use of COVID-19 vaccines made using aborted fetal tissue
The Vatican told Roman Catholics on Monday that it was morally acceptable to use COVID-19 vaccines even if their production employed cell lines drawn from...
Pope snubs Vatican’s sci-fi Nativity scene, directs visitors to others
Pope Francis on Sunday appeared to add his own thumbs-down to widespread criticism of an unorthodox nativity scene in St. Peter’s Square, telling visitors to...
Italy has patient with new strain of virus found in Britain
Italy has detected a patient infected with the new strain of the coronavirus also found in Britain, the health ministry said on Sunday. The patient...
Italy’s COVID-19 death toll passes 60,000, with 564 new deaths
Italy reported 564 COVID-related deaths on Sunday, down from 662 a day earlier and taking the official toll since the outbreak began in February above...
Pope cancels traditional pre-Christmas ceremony due to COVID-19
Thousands of people usually line the streets near the area to see the pope and pray with him. The Vatican City is seen on August...
Pope installs new cardinals, including first African-American
Pope Francis on Saturday installed 13 new cardinals, including the first African-American to hold the high rank, further expanding the pontiff’s impact on the group...
Italy calls in warzone doctor to sort out Calabria COVID-19 health crisis
The Italian government on Monday called upon one of the country’s leading emergency healthcare experts, who usually operates in warzones, to help sort out a...
Coronavirus emerged in Italy earlier than thought, Italian study shows
The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy since September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows,...
After McCarrick report, pope vows to ‘uproot evil’ of clerical sexual abuse
Pope Francis, in his first public comment after the release of an explosive report on the Vatican’s mishandling of the case of ex-U.S. Cardinal Theodore...
Coronavirus forces storied Rome barber to hang up his scissors
In nearly seven decades in the barber business, Luigi Pinzo has seen Italy go through some bad times, from myriad recessions to political assassinations, but...
Italy locks down financial capital Milan and much of industrial north
Italy’s latest restrictions to try to rein in the coronavirus include a partial lockdown of its richest and most populous region Lombardy around the financial...
Italy unveils new COVID-19 restrictions as daily infections climb
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte gave mayors the power to shut public squares from 9 p.m. to halt gatherings as he unveiled a further package...
COVID-19 case confirmed in pope’s Vatican residence
Three Vatican residents who tested positive recently have recovered, Saturday's statement added. Pope Francis arrives for the first weekly general audience to readmit the public...
‘Cardinal’s woman’ arrested in Italy after 500,000-euro payment
The payments to Cecilia Marogna came from Cardinal Angelo Becciu, whom Pope Francis abruptly removed from his role last month over suspected misuse of funds...
Italian woman in Vatican financial scandal investigation arrested
A 39-year-old Italian woman was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the Vatican’s latest financial scandal, police said. Cecilia Marogna had worked for Cardinal Angelo...
Four Vatican Swiss Guards test positive for COVID-19
Four members of the Vatican Swiss Guards, the elite and colourfully dressed corps that protects the pope, have tested positive for COVID-19, the Vatican said...
Italy prepares new restrictions to fight spike in coronavirus cases
Italy is preparing fresh nationwide restrictions, including on private parties, in response to a recent spike in new coronavirus cases, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said...
Seven bodies found in northern Italy, France after violent storms
Seven bodies were found in a region straddling the French-Italian border near Nice on Sunday after torrential rains swept houses and roads away, officials in...
Italy defies virus for vote as far-right plots seismic change
Former interior minister Matteo Salvini and Lega party leader is a part of a centre-right coalition fighting the regional elections AFP Italians head to the...
Referendum and regional votes test Italy’s coalition parties
Italy holds seven regional elections and a constitutional referendum on Sunday and Monday, with an alliance of rightist parties looking certain to make gains at...
Italy announces international search for new Pompeii head
Houses by the cobbled Via di Nola at the world-famous archaeological site of Pompeii . Filippo MONTEFORTE AFP/File The world-famous archaeological site of Pompeii could...
Italian MP nominates Netanyahu for Nobel Prize
The Young Likud group on Monday wrote to the 2005 Nobel economics laureate, Yisrael Aumann, who is known for his right-wing views, asking him to...
Migrants rescued by Danish tanker land in Italy after 40 days at sea
A group of migrants who had been blocked aboard a tanker in the Mediterranean for more than a month were allowed to land in Sicily...
Italian prosecutor set for ‘historic’ anti-mafia court battle
Italy's anti-mafia prosecutor Nicola Gratteri, who has spent three decades under police protection, talks of a war against the 'Ndrangheta TIZIANA FABI AFP/File After years...
Putin to set up inquiry into Navalny poisoning: Italy’s PM
FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, gestures during a news conference at a field hospital built by Italian military in Hadath, Lebanon September 8,...
Italy antitrust opens inquiry into Google, Apple, Dropbox on cloud computing
Italy’s antitrust authority said on Monday it had opened an inquiry into Google Inc, Apple Inc and Dropbox Inc over cloud computing services. “The proceedings...
Italian GP: Ferrari suffers worst qualifying performance since 1984
Bystander: Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel looks on during the qualifying MIGUEL MEDINA POOL/AFP Ferrari's worst fears were realised on Saturday when they failed to qualify at...
Italy’s former PM Berlusconi in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus
Silvio Berlusconi, 83, pictured in Ravenna, Italy, on January 24, 2020. © Flavio Lo Scalzo, REUTERS Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been diagnosed with the...
Italy’s former PM Berlusconi tests positive for coronavirus
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi vowed to carry on with political activities ahead of local elections in September after testing positive for COVID-19 on...
At least three migrants die as boat catches fire off Italy
Emergency services carry a body at the dock of Le Castella after a migrant boat caught fire during rescue operations off the coast of Crotone,...
Boat carrying nearly 370 migrants reaches Italy’s Lampedusa
Children and women rescued from the MV Louise Michel, a migrants search and rescue ship financed by British street artist Banksy, stand on the dock...