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Non Una di Meno demonstration to be held in Rome on 26 November.
Numerous initiatives are being held in Rome to mark the UN-backed International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on 25 November.
The...
City orders closure of Rome park at night following rape of Australian woman.
The Colle Oppio park near Rome's Colosseum is to be closed at night following the recent rape and robbery of an Australian woman, city auth...
Sexual assault and robbery took place in Colle Oppio area of Rome.
A police investigation is underway after a 49-year-old Australian woman was raped, beaten and robbed late on 2 October in the Colle Oppio district of...
Autopsy rules out possibility that student was already dead when pushed into Tiber.
The results of an official autopsy cite drowning as the cause of death of Beau Solomon, the 19-year-old American student whose body w...
Rome drain covers and fountain tops sold to illegal scrap merchants.
Dozens of cast-iron manhole covers have been stolen recently in Rome's suburbs, with about 50 alone taken from along Viadotto Gronchi, in the north-...
European court accepts case brought by Amanda Knox against Italy.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has accepted an appeal against Italy by Amanda Knox, the American woman acquitted last year by Italy's highe...
One prisoner gave himself up, the other arrested outside Rome.
Two prisoners who escaped from Rome's Rebibbia jail on 14 February are back in custody after one gave himself up on the afternoon of 17 February and the o...
Inmates remain at large after breaking out of Rome prison.
A police manhunt is in operation in the greater Rome area for two prisoners who broke out of the city's Rebibbia jail during the evening of 14 February.
Th...
Death of Italian student strains normally close Italo-Egyptian relations.
Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi has called for the body of missing Italian student Giulio Regeni to be returned to Italy as soon as possibl...
Rome supports International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
A total of 152 women were murdered in Italy in 2014, with 94 per cent of the deaths attributed to men, according to a report into femicide...
Rome's ex right-wing mayor Gianni Alemanno accused of corruption.
Prosecutors in Rome have sought an indictment for the city's former mayor Gianni Alemanno on accusations of corruption, in connection with the so-calle...
46 defendants in Rome's mafia trial.
The first hearing in the so-called Mafia Capitale trial, the result of the biggest investigation into organised crime in Rome's modern history, opened at the criminal courts in t...
Over half of stolen cars never recovered.
Over 300 cars are stolen a day in Italy, according to a report from the ministry of the interior.
But it is not the luxury cars that are disappearing. It is the smaller one...
Former chief of Rome's AMA rubbish agency faces corruption charges.
The first part of the Mafia Capitale trial into alleged criminal infiltration of Rome's city hall opens on 20 October when the former chief of the ci...
Capital stands up to organised crime following lavish Mafia funeral.
Politicians, trade unions and civil society associations are staging an anti-mafia protest at Piazza Don Bosco in Rome's Cinecittà district at 18.00...
Sit-in set for 3 September.
A demonstration to protest the ostentatious funeral of the mafia boss, Vittorio Casamonica, is being called for 3 September.
The heads of Rome's 15 municipal districts have said that th...
Assets of €400 million seized at port in Ostia
Rome's provincial finance police have impounded assets at Ostia's Porto Turistico di Roma marina, including yachts, car parks, offices and shops worth a total of around €...
Latest act of vandalism by tourists at Rome monument.
A Lebanese tourist was caught defacing a pillar at Rome's Colosseum on the afternoon of 11 July, according to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.
The 22-...
Rome mayor refuses to resign.
Police arrested five people on 9 June as part of an ever-widening investigation into a mafia syndicate allegedly operating within Rome's city administration.
The five, most of whom are...
Junior government minister under investigation over alleged Mafia links.
Italian premier Matteo Renzi has intervened following an investigation into a junior government minister as part of the burgeoning case involvin...
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