Pope Francis said on Friday he had no wish to live in the apostolic apartments inhabited by previous pontiffs, “for psychiatric reasons”.

The Vatican on Tuesday played down a report by Italian Catholic media that Pope Francis had carried out an exorcism on a young disabled man on Sunday that made world news.

Michael Mann, creator of the hit Miami Vice cop show, was selected as jury president for this year’s Venice Film Festival.

Hollywood billionaire director Steven Spielberg excused himself and paid a fine after he was cited for violating boating rules while on vacation on the Italian island of Sardinia.

The 2,400-year-old ancient Egyptian Avenue of the Sphinxes will be opened to the public in October after a painstaking five-year project to restore the historic route to its original splendour, the antiquities ministry has announced.

The Italian police in Milan on Wednesday recovered 6 million euros worth of jewels that once belonged to Argentine Eva Peron around two years after they were stolen from a store in Spain.

A 25-year-old Palestinian refugee on Monday won a United Nations competition with his short film based on the story of a Palestinian refugee family returning to their ruined home in a conflict-ravaged

Archaeologists in Florence have uncovered at skeleton they believe could be the 500-year-old remains of the noblewoman who allegedly posed for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa masterpiece.

Film director Sofia Coppola and her French pop singer boyfriend Thomas Mars plan to get married in the ancestral southern Italian town of the filmmaker’s great grandfather.

The tourism and antiquities police have recovered four ancient bronze statuettes stolen from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and elsewhere, Egypt’s top antiquities body said in a statement.