Former Fox News jou alist Greg Burke is the new head of the Vatican press office. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPPope Francis on Monday named a former Fox News correspondent to head up the Vatican press office and appointed the tiny state's first-ever female deputy spokesperson. American Greg Burke, 56, ...

Italian Minister of Economy and Finance Pier Carlo Padoan (L) talks with Dutch Finance Minister and president of Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem. Photo: John Thys/AFPEurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem on Monday said there was still time to solve the crisis affecting banks in Italy that is raising fear...

L'Italo Americano, in Milan, will host its first nudist night on Friday July 15th. Photo: L'Italo AmericanoUntil 2006, nudists sites were illegal in Italy. Ten years on, the country is about to host its first ever nudist dinner. For all those who like the idea of eating naked, all the while surround...

An aerial view of the baths. Photo: Archaeological Superintendency RomeAn ancient Roman bath-house and series of tombs have been unearthed during an attempt to build a new Orthodox church in a working-class suburb of Rome. Works to build the church got underway in Casal Be occhi more than a year ago...

Halex Hale, 24, is assigned to the Aviano Air Base in northeaste Italy. Photo: US Air Force/AFPItalian authorities have called off the search for an American airman who was last seen more than a week ago. Staff sergeant Halex Hale, 24, went missing from his base in Aviano, northeaste Italy, on July ...

Emmanuele Chidi Nnamdi, 36, and his wife, Chinyere, fled to Italy from Nigeria last year.Hundreds of mou ers attended the funeral on Sunday of a Nigerian migrant who was killed by a right-wing football fan in a racist attack which has sparked widespread soul-searching in Italy. "He came to live in p...

The United States has transferred Saudi-bo Yemeni inmate Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman to Italy. Photo: Paul J RichardsThe United States has transferred Saudi-bo Yemeni inmate Fayiz Ahmad Yahia Suleiman to Italy, the Pentagon announced on Sunday, as President Barack Obama seeks to close the reviled Ame...

The spread of fast food is to blame for a decline in the intake of the Mediterranean diet. Photo: Moyan BrennIt may be on the Unesco heritage list, but global experts wa the Mediterranean diet, prized for its health benefits, is losing so much ground to the fast food culture that the decline may be ...

The Argentine pontiff's "motu proprio" reverses a 2014 bill. Photo: AFPPope Francis issued a decree on Saturday aimed at boosting transparency over Vatican finances, which have been under scrutiny since leaks of secret documents revealed serious irregularities that may have masked corruption. The mo...

Bank of Italy chief, Ignazio Visco. Toru Yamanaka/AFPBank of Italy Gove or Ignazio Visco said on Friday that public intervention in the country's banks was not to be ruled out amid growing fears the sector's €360 billion ($398 billion) in bad debt would trigger a potentially contagious banking crisi...

The one-year-old child weighed as much as three-month-old should. Photo: Joe Radele/AFP/Getty ImagesA one-year-old boy in Milan, allegedly being raised on a strict vegan diet, has been taken away from his parents after being hospitalized weighing just five kilograms. The boy was taken to Milan's Fat...

Italy had the lowest birth rate in the EU in 2015. Photo: Joel Saget/AFPItaly had the lowest rate of births in the EU last year, with just eight babies bo for every 1,000 residents, according to figures published by Eurostat on Friday. The country’s birth rate has more halved since the ‘baby boom’ o...

Lazio boss Marcelo Bielsa has walked out on the club after just 48 hours in charge. Photo: Be ard Landlais/AFPFormer Argentina boss Marcelo Bielsa has abruptly pulled out of coaching Lazio in a shock move which the club said could result in legal action. "We note with amazement the resignation of Ma...

The skull was found in Calabria's Grotta del Romito. Photo: Twitter/ComunicarebeneThe discovery of a 17,000-year-old skull in southe Italy has allowed a team of scientists to accurately recreate the brain of mans' ancient ancestors for the very first time. The skull belonged to boy of between 10 and...

The roses were rejected, and given to a passerby. Photo: Joanne SweenyThey say love conquers all, but no amount of red roses or free dinners were able to woo the ex girlfriend of a romantic Italian man, who is now on trial in Turin for stalking. Apart from treating her to her favourite meal of chick...

They say entrepreneurial spirit flourishes in the face of great adversity and Barikamà, an organic yoghurt business which employs six former asylum seekers in Rome, is the perfect example. Each month the staff at Barikamà produce 200 litres of organic yoghurt which they deliver to customers by bicyc...

Models present creations by Fendi during a fashion show at the Trevi Fountain in Rome on Thursday. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFPShimmering models wearing the latest creations by Fendi appeared to walk on water Thursday at a fairytale show in Rome's Trevi fountain to mark the luxury fashion house's 90th an...

Emanuele Filiberto in his new food truck. Photo: Prince of Venice Food Truck/FacebookThe grandson of Italy's last king has embarked on a new business venture, which sees him selling pasta from a food truck on the streets of Califo ia. Emanuele Filiberto, 44, is the only male line heir to Italy's exi...

The body of Beau Solomon was found in Rome's river Tiber on Monday. Photo: FacebookA homeless man, suspected of pushing 19-year-old American student Beau Solomon to his death in Rome’s Tiber river, will remain in custody until trial, a preliminary investigative judge ruled on Thursday. Massimo Galio...

Jou alists Gianluigi Nuzzi (L) and Emiliano Fittipaldi were acquitted on Thursday. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFPTwo investigative jou alists at the heart of a controversial leaks trial at the Vatican were acquitted on Thursday after judges ruled they did not have the authority to examine their cases. I...