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.

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.

Around 70 Spanish pilgrims were locked inside a Rome train station on Tuesday night after arriving in the Italian capital for the Vatican's Jubilee of Youth.

The Italian cabinet has approved a bill to give the city of Rome legislative powers governing planning, transport, tourism, culture and the environment.

Rome will host the Jubilee of Youth, the largest event of the Vatican's ongoing Jubilee Year, with hundreds of thousands of pilgrims expected.

Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has been featured on the cover of Time magazine and is the focus of the lead article in the influential publication.

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.

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.

Italy's culture ministry announces the new 'super-directors' of five major Italian state museums and archaeological sites, including the Colosseum in Rome.

Swimming along the river Tiber could become the newest way to experience the Eternal City, and cool off in the summer, under plans launched by Rome's mayor.

An Italian referendum on citizenship and labour reform failed to reach the required quorum, in a win for premier Giorgia Meloni who urged voters to abstain.