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.

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The mayor of a town near Rome assures residents that the panic caused by alleged sightings of a crocodile in recent days was the result of a false alarm.

An investigation is under way after a bus operated by Rome public transport company ATAC burst into flames in the Fleming district of the city on Tuesday.

Several cities in northern and central Italy, including Bergamo, Florence and Milan, record major blackouts as the nation grapples with an intense heatwave.

Rome is introducing a range of new tariffs for the city's public transport network from 1 July in a move that is set to affect tourists more than residents.

Short-term rental giant Airbnb is to give funding to Rome's Peter Pan charitable association which supports families with children suffering from cancer.

Italy is to expand its travel rules to allow pet owners to take larger dogs with them on board flights, in the cabin, the Italian transport ministry said.

The 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III will be the subject of a new film titled Captivated starring Al Pacino and Katie Holmes, set to be filmed in Rome.

A 47-year-old tourist was seriously injured when he became impaled on railings around the Colosseum after attempting to scale a fence at the Rome landmark.

Work got underway in the Vatican on Friday morning to mount a chimney over the Sistine Chapel ahead of the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis.