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With fraud and corruption trials looming, Premier Silvio Berlusconi is sparring with Italy's magistrates, who threatened on Thursday to go on strike to protest his branding them as communists targeting a billionaire.
It's an enduring problem in the eternal city — seemingly endless baggage delays at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport.
They go by such nicknames as "Fat Cat" and "Tomboy." Their simmering power struggles once drove them into the streets, guns blazing. They rule their crime families with steely determination, and also raise the kids and stir the pasta.
Italy has launched a full-throttled assault on the Naples mob, carrying out a flurry of raids and making dozens of arrests over the past month. But like an octopus regrowing its arms, the Camorra has shown a knack for replacing lost leaders and soldiering on.
The ex-boyfriend of an 18-year-old woman at the heart of a scandal involving Premier Silvio Berlusconi has apologized for having fueled speculation about a presumed relationship between the two.
Italian police arrested one of the country's "most-dangerous" fugitives in raids early Tuesday that netted at least 70 suspected members of the the Naples-based Camorra crime syndicate. The search for dozens more was still under way, police said.
Italy returned more than 200 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean Sea to Libya on Thursday, defying the United Nations refugee agency but claiming a major victory in its crackdown on illegal immigration.
A peeved Premier Silvio Berlusconi has demanded a public apology from his wife, who announced she was seeking a divorce from the billionaire media magnate because she was fed up with his roving eye for younger women.
Pope Benedict XVI and Prince Charles discussed their mutual concern for the environment as the heir to the British throne brought his campaign to fight climate change to the Vatican on Monday.
While businesses around the world are hunkering down for survival, the Italian mob is living a golden moment.
The Holy See and the Arab League have agreed to work together to promote peace and justice in the world, the Vatican said Friday, after a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the league's secretary-general.
Even before all the debris from Italy's latest devastating earthquake is cleaned up, investigators fear that organized crime is poised to profit from contracts worth billions of dollars to rebuild schools, hospitals, courthouses and homes.
Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday praised this week's U.N. anti-racism conference and urged countries to join forces to eliminate intolerance, as the Vatican appeared to distance itself from the U.S. boycott of the meeting.
About 140 migrants arrived on Italian territory after being stranded aboard a cargo ship amid a standoff with Malta over who would take them, officials said Monday.
The father of an American suspect on trial in Italy for the slaying of her British roommate said Friday that his daughter is "getting anxious to testify."
Pope Benedict XVI carried a tall, lit candle symbolizing hope into a darkened St. Peter's Basilica packed with faithful Saturday night in the traditional start of the Vatican's vigil Mass on the eve of Easter.
Pope Benedict XVI presided over a torch-lit Way of the Cross procession at the Colosseum on Good Friday and said he was praying so that people who suffered losses in Italy's devastating quake can see the light of hope in their dark hour.
Pope Benedict XVI sent ceremonial oils blessed on Holy Thursday to Italy's devastated quake zone in a sign of solidarity with the survivors.
The Vatican appealed Wednesday to experts worldwide to volunteer to restore paintings and other treasures from churches devastated in quakes this week in central Italy.
Italy is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world, but the vast majority of buildings in its most vulnerable regions don't meet modern seismic safety standards, experts say. Scientists say that is why Monday's temblor near L'Aquila took such a devastating toll.
An influential prelate said Brazilian doctors didn't deserve excommunication for aborting the twin fetuses of a 9-year-old child who was allegedly raped by her stepfather because the doctors were saving her life.
Pope Benedict XVI has sent a letter to Roman Catholic bishops around the globe saying the Vatican made "mistakes" in its handling of the recent lifting of the excommunication of a Holocaust-denying cleric, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
For the father of Italian painting, Rome is putting on a mother of all shows.
A staunchly conservative religious order favored by Pope John Paul II said Wednesday that there had been unspecified misconduct by its founder.
The 20,000 additional troops sought by American commanders for the NATO mission in Afghanistan would come from the United States, with any additional increase supplied by allies, the U.S. general who oversees the Afghan war said Tuesday.
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