Travel chaos expected in Italy on Friday 20 June due to nationwide strike action.. Italy is braced for a 24-hour national general strike on 20 Friday June that is set to affect air, rail and local ...

An elderly motorist was stopped by police in Rome as he drove down a long stretch of the Spanish Steps landmark in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Fast food mosaic gets mixed reaction in Rome. A mysterious "ancient Roman" mosaic unveiled in central Rome this week features a banquet scene whose protagonists are dining on what appears to be fast ...

Tourist stopped on street near Villa Borghese. Rome police detained a German tourist as he cruised down a street on a rented electric scooter with the marble base of a Roman column between his feet.

Italy set for pivotal referendums affecting citizenship and labour laws.. Political tensions are mounting in Italy ahead of five upcoming referendums, including a landmark vote on easing the nation's ...

Until now, Italy required medium-sized and large dogs to fly in the cargo hold. Not anymore.. Italy is expanding its air travel rules to allow pet owners to take larger dogs on board flights, in the ...

All eyes turn to Rome as the conclave to elect the 267th pope begins. The papal conclave, the solemn and secretive process in which cardinals convene to choose a successor to Pope Francis, gets ...

Francis chose the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore as his final resting place and will become the first pope in more than a century not to be buried in St Peter's.. Pope Francis, who died on Monday ...

Meloni says the Italian government will do all it can to avoid trade war. Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni was among the first world leaders to criticise US President Donald Trump's introduction ...

17 car destroyed in dawn blaze at Tesla dealership. Police in Italy are investigating a major fire that engulfed a Tesla dealership and completely destroyed 17 cars in the eastern outskirts of Rome in ...

Naples lies in the shadow of Vesuvius and next to Campi Flegrei.. Mount Vesuvius, the volcano responsible for the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 AD, remains one of the most dangerous ...