Dozens of firefighters have been battling around the clock to extinguish a major wildfire raging on Mount Vesuvius in the southern Campania region of Italy.

Francis Ford Coppola, the acclaimed Italian-American director best known for The Godfather, was hospitalised in Rome on Tuesday for scheduled heart surgery.

Around one million young people from all over the world gathered in the outskirts of Rome this weekend for a prayer vigil as part of the Jubilee of Youth.

Italy's Campi Flegrei, a highly seismic zone near Naples, was shaken on Friday by a 4-magnitude earthquake. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

Air travellers in Italy face disruption to flights on Saturday 26 July due to nationwide strike action by airport ground staff and Volotea cabin crews.

Italian senators on Wednesday passed new legislation aimed at combatting femicide and gender-based violence, giving the bill their unanimous approval.

Rome landmark records more than five million tourists in the first half of this year. Visitors to the Trevi Fountain could soon be charged €2 to see the iconic Rome landmark as a contentious plan by ...

Palermo public prosecutors file an appeal to the court of cassation against the acquittal of Italian deputy premier Matteo Salvini in the Open Arms case.

Italy's premier Giorgia Meloni has condemned an Israeli strike that hit the only Catholic church in Gaza, killing two people and injuring several others.

Rome will turn off the lights in the Trevi Fountain for one hour on the night of Friday 18 July in a symbolic act to call for an end to Israel's war in Gaza.