Pope Francis has traveled to southern Italy to close out an Italian church congress that coincided with Italy’s national election

Giorgia Meloni could become the first female prime minister in the history of Italy as Italians head to the polls.

Italians vote in election that could take far-right to power

Italian voters cast ballots on Sunday in an election that has been billed as crucial as Europe reels from the repercussions of war in Ukraine

Italy could be on the verge of electing its first woman premier

Flash floods triggered by heavy rain have swept through towns in a hilly central Italy

A drug-sniffing dog has led frontier police at a Milan airport to discover some 13 kilograms (nearly 30 pounds) of cocaine stuffed into the upholstery of a motorized wheelchair, whose user was immediately arrested

For director and actor Olivia Wilde, the dream of the Venice International Film Festival was woven into the fabric of her new film, “Don’t Worry Darling.”

Cardinals who are under the age of 80 can vote to elect the next pope when time comes, and Pope Francis has now appointed more than 60% of those electors.

Outgoing Italian Premier Mario Draghi said the country is less vulnerable to interruptions of Russian natural gas supplies because of its moved rapidly to reduce dependence on Moscow

A 20-year-old American service member was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence and killing a 15-year-old boy on a cycle path.

Italy's Coast Guard shared this video of a 131-foot superyacht that sank about 9 miles off the coast of Catanzaro.

The 22-year-old king of TikTok finally has another title: Italian

Two marches have taken place through one of Italy's Adriatic beach towns, both seeking justice in the brutal daylight killing of a Nigerian man at the hands of an Italian stranger

Discoveries are enriching knowledge about middle-class households in Pompeii.

The fatal attack played out in public as bystanders watched, some filming.

Draghi’s national unity government has collapsed.

Italy's political turmoil is making life harder for the European Central Bank as it hikes interest rates and raising bad memories of the eurozone debt crisis a decade ago

European leaders have ramped up their push to secure alternative energy supplies as fears escalate of a complete natural gas cutoff by Russia

She called the “archaic” theatrical practices “offensive" and "humiliating."

The news came hours after Premier Mario Draghi offered to step down.

An apartment building-sized chunk of a glacier detached, sparking an avalanche.

Fifty-nine people are on trial in Italy for the 2018 collapse of a Genoa bridge.

A judge in southern Italy has ruled that film director Paul Haggis should be released from detention at his hotel while prosecutors continue to investigate sex abuse allegations

A mayor in northern Italy signed an ordinance turning off public fountains.

Italy’s political landscape has shifted after Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio formalized his departure from the 5-Star Movement

Italy has been so successful in recovering illegally exported ancient artworks and artifacts that it has created a museum just for them

Venice’s Jewish ghetto is considered the first in Europe.

The helicopter crashed in a heavily forested, mountainous area during a storm.

Letizia Battaglia, an Italian photographer who documented the arrests of Mafia bosses and the bodies of their victims, has died in her native Sicilian city of Palermo

Pompeii, the ancient city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, is experiencing a kind of rebirth

President Sergio Mattarella received an astounding 55 rounds of applause from an otherwise divided Italian parliament Thursday during a wide-ranging speech that underlined the need for national unity after he was sworn in to a second term in office

Italian President Sergio Mattarella has been pulled away from his impending retirement and reelected to a second seven-year term as the country’s head of state, ending days of political impasse as party leaders struggled to pick his successor

Insistence by Italy's center-right bloc that their candidate becomes the nation's president has backfired

Lawmakers and regional representatives have failed again to find consensus on a new Italian president

A first round of voting to elect Italy's next president has failed as expected amid a political impasse

Former premier Silvio Berlusconi bowed out of Italy’s presidential election.

Italy is poised to elect a new president.

The Rome villa contains the only known ceiling painted by Caravaggio.

The discovery of African swine fever in northern Italy has pork producers fearing significant damages to a major agricultural export, and is also cutting short truffle hunting

Italy’s supreme court has faulted Italian prosecutors for withholding evidence benefiting the key suspect in the Vatican’s fraud and embezzlement trial in a parallel case in Italian courts

The Catholic Church in Rome is strongly condemning a funeral procession outside a local church in which the casket was draped in a Nazi flag and mourners gave the fascist salute

A moderate earthquake has rattled Milan

The building was occupied by nine members of an extended family.

A dentist in Italy faces possible criminal charges after trying to receive a coronavirus vaccine in a fake arm made of silicone

A white truffle weighing 830 grams sold for 103,000 euros at auction to an Italian chef who runs a restaurant in Hong Kong.

Police in Italy are conducting searches against 17 anti-vaccine activists.

A provocative exhibit by dissident Chinese artist Badiucao has opened in the industrial northern Italian city of Brescia despite pressure by the Chinese embassy in Rome to cancel it

Two German men have gone on trial in northern Italy in connection with a boat crash in Italy’s Lake Garda that killed two Italians who were also out on the lake that night

Dozens of former flight attendants from defunct Italian airline Alitalia have stripped off their uniforms, wearing only undergarments in a protest in central Rome