Pope Francis has defrocked an Italian priest found guilty of the sexual abuse of minors, reversing an earlier decision to reduce his punishment, the diocese at the heart of the scandal said Wednesday. Mauro Inzoli, 67, was defrocked in 2012 after he was first accused ofxa0paedophilia, but that decis...

The Italian gove ment has asked its ambassador in Brussels to formerly present a request for help and express its inability to cope alone with the current migration crisis, according to Ansa, Repubblica and several other news outlets. Meeting with the European Commissioner for Migrationxa0Dimitris A...

Cardinal George Pell, one of the most powerful figures in the Vatican and Australia's most senior Catholic, was Thursday charged with historical sex offences, which he "strenuously denied". Pell, the Vatican's finance chief and the highest-ranking Catholic clericxa0to face such charges, had been int...

Memorial to early 1990s war in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Clay Gilliland, CC BY-SAWith peak season approaching for refugees making treacherous jou eys to and through Europe, don’t be surprised if we are told again that this is unprecedented. In fact, Europe has coped with comparable situations – not leas

A dog ordered to be put down in Denmark has been allowed to retu to her home country of Italy, after Italians mobilized to save the pet. It took the intervention of politicians, a pop singer, and a petition with hundreds of thousands of signatures, to ensure the happy ending to the story.Iceberg t

A 10-year-old boy in Sardinia has been diagnosed with tetanus. "It's an incredibly rare case," Giovani Zanda, head of the pediatric ward at San Martino Di Oristano Hospital in weste Sardinia,xa0told Corriere della Sera.xa0It is the first registered case of tetanus in a child in Italy for 30 years, a...

The EU urged Italy on Thursday to allow more time to discuss its threat to suddenly stop vessels from other countries disembarking migrants in Italian ports, after rescuing them in the Mediterranean. Brussels said it was ready to give Italy fresh financial support to dealxa0with the crisis but said ...

A police officer has shot and killed his deputy commander in San Donato Milanese, on the outskirts of Milan. The perpetrator shot himself soon after killing his superior. The incident occurred at around 3pm today on June 29. Both men died in hospital from their injuries.xa0 Repubblica reports that i...

Exactly 150 years after Sicilian Nobel laureate Luigi Pirandello's birth, fellow Sicilian and contemporary crime writer Andrea Camilleri recalls the strange jou ey the playwright's ashes undertook over the years. Several events in the city of Agrigento in Sicily are set to commemorate the 150th ann

High-ranking current and former members of the Aosta council are accused of deliberate fraud in the management of a casino. Twenty two people are being investigated, including former Valle d'Aosta gove or Augusto Rollandin and members of the Aosta council from 2012 to 2015 in an investigation into

Five-time European Cup-winning footballer Paolo Maldini's tennis career ended abruptly on his debut on Tuesday when the AC Milan legend lost 6-1, 6-1 in a first-round doubles match. Maldini stepped onto the court at the Milan challenger event as its mostxa0decorated sportsman. But the 49-year-old It...

The police officer was found with kilograms of hashish in his car and more at home. A 54-year-old police officer in Naples was stopped and arrested for drug trafficking at a road block near Frosinone in Lazio. A team of carabinieri and police officials stopped the officer at a roadblock and found 13

Meet the sons of Naples' murderers, racketeers, extortionists and mob leaders. They too deal, steal and shoot, albeit with no financial necessity. The money they ea buys them the luxury items they need to maintain their image. Most have never been to school and cannot read or write, let alone spea

England's Under xa021s are hoping to follow in the success of their Under 20 counterparts and reach a major footfall final for only the third time ever.xa0 Andy Boothroyd's team face arch sport nemesis Germany in their semi final in Tychy, Poland, this evening for a place in the tou ament's final. I...

Despite a dispute about the actual date of birth of the 50cc 'bees', people across Italy are already celebrating the anniversary of the iconic vehicle's birth. They can be seen buzzing down (often the middle) of many an Italian country lane but these days are just as likely to make an appearance, re

More than 8,000 migrants have been rescued in waters off Libya during the past 48 hours in difficult weather conditions, Italy's coastguard said Tuesday. "On Monday, we rescued about 5,000 people from four large boats, onexa0smaller one and 18 rubber dinghies," a spokesman told AFP. People were pull...

A 36-year-old Brazilian cleaner on the Msc Musica has been declared missing after the cruise ship sailed from Venice and docked in Brindisi on June 19th. The prosecutor's office in Brindisi has opened a murder inquiry. Simone Scheuer Souza was reported missing as the ship docked for a stop in Pescar

China said Tuesday it opposed outside interference after the Vatican reported that one of its bishops in the country was being held at an undisclosed location after he was forcibly removed from his diocese. It was the latest dispute in a decades-long argument over who in thexa0Communist country has ...

Budget airline Ryanair is ready to make a bid for a majority stake in Italy's Alitalia if administrators of the troubled carrier undertake four key reform steps, its CEO said Tuesday. "If significant changes are implemented we are interested in making anxa0offer," Michael O'Leary told reporters in R...

Two councils declared a state of emergency while others reported extreme floods, hailstorms and damage to infrastructure over the weekend across northe Italy. A teenage boy is missing too after being dragged away by strong currents in the Adda River. Torrential rains, storms, hailstorms and strong