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Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, erupted early on Monday morning, sending plumes of ash and smoke into the air above Sicily.

Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural mass attracted tens of thousands, where he connected with the faithful from around the world, blessing babies and emphasising joy and unity.

Pope allegedly used derogatory term for gay people Pope Francis reportedly used highly derogatory language in a private meeting at…

Europe’s ‘coffee capital’ is a hidden gem Italian city with flights for just £48 Aperitifs at sundown, quaint streets, and…

The investigation conducted by the Carabinieri Investigative Unit and the prosecutor’s office in Catania has uncovered a pact between some…

The National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, Giovanni Melillo, has called for no further reductions in sentences for inmates convicted of mafia and…

France’s top court on Tuesday annulled a lower court decision to extradite Edgardo Greco, a convicted mafia killer-turned-pizza chef who has been on the run since 2006, to Italy.

Condemning the ‘commercialisation’ of pregnancy, he said the life of an unborn child must not be ‘suppressed or turned into an object of trafficking’.

A Vatican tribunal on Saturday convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 ½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state’s dirty laundry and tested its justice system.

“This is the first cardinal to be prosecuted in a Vatican criminal court”, said FRANCE 24’s correspondent in Rome, Italy, Seema Gupta.” Cardinal Angelo Becciu is the most senior Vatican official to face such charges; “the 75-year-old cardinal was a former advisor to Pope Francis, so he was somebody who would meet with the pope and he was seen as a papal contender”.