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The episode was the latest in tourists disrespecting landmark sites in the ancient Italian city.

The man behind the alleged act of vandalism on Rome's Colosseum has apologised to "the Italians" and to "the world", after apparently "learning" how significant the monument is.

The visitor who allegedly scratched "Ivan+Hayley 23" on a brick wall has been identified.

Italy's culture minister is calling for a man to be "identified and sanctioned" after he was filmed allegedly carving his and his fiancée's names into the Colosseum in Rome.

His surgeon says the pontiff is now "better than before" the hospitalisation.

Climate activists in Italy dumped charcoal in Rome's famous Trevi Fountain on Sunday.

The pontiff renewed calls for global peace during the high point of the Christian calendar.

You don't have to be an experienced traveller to recognise some of the world's most iconic landmarks. But can you identify them from above?

Despite the cardinal calling Francis' papacy a "catastrophe", the pontiff imparted a final blessing in St. Peter's Basilica for the once high-ranking Vatican prelate.

A new study has discovered that ancient roman cement has self-healing capabilities, leading to long-lasting structures.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI 's body, his head resting on a pair of crimson pillows, lay in state in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican as tens of thousands queued to pay tribute to the pontiff who shocked the world by retiring a decade ago.

Pope Francis has revealed in an interview published Sunday that shortly after being elected pontiff in 2013 he wrote a resignation letter in case medical problems impede him from carrying out his duties.

A marble bust that a Texas woman bought for nearly $50 from a Goodwill store is temporarily on display at a San Antonio museum after experts determined it was a centuries-old sculpture missing from Germany since World War II.

Italian Catholic and Jewish leaders on Tuesday condemned as outrageous an episode in which right-wing extremists put a flag with a swastika on a coffin outside a church after a religious funeral and gave Nazi salutes

For awhile there, it appeared we might be able to ring in New Year's Eve in major cities across the world, but the rapid spread of the new Omicron variant have dashed those hopes.

Leaders from 20 of the world's largest economies have endorsed a global tax minimum of 15 per cent for large corporations on the first day of the G20 summit in Rome

At three-and-a-half metres the puppet, who was made to depict a Syrian refugee girl, stands tall to symbolise millions of displaced children

Along the cost of Spain, two beginner free divers found a large pile of ancient coins believed to be from the Roman Empire.

Rome is grappling with an invasion of rubbish-seeking wild boars.

Pope Francis has undergone planned intestinal surgery at a Rome hospital, the Vatican has announced.

As the coronavirus pandemic unfolded, Associated Press photographers had the 'privilege and horror' of witnessing the crisis up close. This is what they saw.

A jug of silver coins dating back to the founding years of the Roman Empire have been unearthed in Turkey.

The Pope has been warned by Australian health authorities of potential coronavirus exposure, with Canberra's new case being revealed as the Vatican's ambassador to Australia.

It was the first meeting between the Pontiff and Cardinal Pell since the Australian's child abuse convictions were overturned in April.

Infringers risk 400 euros fine and local police were on Sunday already warning those not wearing masks that they will have to outside as well as inside.

Half a world away from his home nation, where he was this year acquitted of child sex abuse allegations, Cardinal George Pell was heckled upon his return to Rome.

It is believed Pell has arranged a private meeting with Pope Francis, which could take place shortly after he departs Rome's international airport.

Cardinal George Pell is on his way to Rome to return to the Vatican for the first time since being cleared of child sexual abuse charges.

Rome's international airport scored points for having easy-to-read signage in multiple languages, a strict mask wearing policy, visibly present cleaning staff and rapid virus testing facilities.

The damaged statue is the original plaster cast model from which Canova carved a marble statue that is housed in the Borghese Gallery in Rome.

Researchers using advanced ground-penetrating radar have been able to map an entire city buried beneath the ground for the first time.

Thousands of people took to the streets of European cities to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Pope Francis celebrated Palm Sunday Mass in the shelter of St Peter's Basilica without the public because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Archaeologists have discovered a shrine dedicated to the legendary founder of Rome, Romulus, during an excavation of the Roman Forum.

The heat from the ancient volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy was so hot that it turned one victim's brains to glass.

A fragment of wood believed to be from Jesus' manger is back in the Holy Land just in time for Christmas.

Christians have celebrated the return to the Holy Land of a tiny wooden relic they believe was part of Jesus' manger nearly 1,400 years after it was sent to Rome as a gift to the pope.

Italian police said Saturday two 19-year-old American tourists have confessed to fatally stabbing an Italian paramilitary policeman who was investigating the theft of a bag with a cellphone.

The mystery of the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee took yet another twist following excavations this week at a Vatican City cemetery.

Rome's famous cobblestone streets are to be ripped up and replaced with asphalt.

Archaeologists in Rome have discovered a 2,000-year-old large marble head from an ancient god

Pope Francis has sparked outrage for refusing to accept the resignation of a French cardinal convicted of failing to report a known predator priest.

The Vatican has launched an investigation into a small Chilean religious order of nuns after some sisters denounced sexual abuse at the hands of priests and mistreatment by their superiors.

Emanuela Orlandi, 15, left her home in Vatican City in 1983 for a music lesson and never returned.

Russian football fans are among at least 24 people injured after an escalator collapsed.

After centuries of neglect, the walls that were built to protect Ancient Rome are at risk of being lost forever.

Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failure to stop child molesters in the priesthood triggered the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died Wednesday in Rome at age 86.

The Vatican and Australia's Catholic leaders say they will seriously consider a royal commission's call for sweeping reforms, although archbishops refuse to break the seal of confession to reveal child abuse.

Pope Francis has dismissed the church's chief of doctrine, Cardinal Gerhard Mueller - one of the most powerful cardinals at the Vatican - and appointed a Spanish archbishop to the role, the Vatican said today.

Archaeologists uncovered a 2,300-year-old aqueduct in Rome's historic city centre during the excavation phase of the city's new metro line construction.