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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.

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.

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.

Several cities in northern and central Italy, including Bergamo, Florence and Milan, record major blackouts as the nation grapples with an intense heatwave.

An elderly motorist was stopped by police in Rome as he drove down a long stretch of the Spanish Steps landmark in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Short-term rental giant Airbnb is to give funding to Rome's Peter Pan charitable association which supports families with children suffering from cancer.

A police investigation is underway in Rome after the bodies of a baby girl and a woman were found in bushes in the city's Villa Pamphilj park on Saturday.

The 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III will be the subject of a new film titled Captivated starring Al Pacino and Katie Holmes, set to be filmed in Rome.

A 47-year-old tourist was seriously injured when he became impaled on railings around the Colosseum after attempting to scale a fence at the Rome landmark.

Pope Francis, who died on Monday aged 88, is to be buried in the Rome Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore following his funeral at Saint Peter's on Saturday.

King Charles and Queen Camilla were received by Pope Francis in a private meeting at the Vatican on Wednesday, the third day of their state visit to Italy.