The final stage of the Giro d’Italia, scheduled for Sunday, June 1, will feature a historic passage through Vatican City, ...

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A selection by Reuters editors of some of the photos from Pope Francis' funeral with comments by photographers ...

Duquesne University students spending the summer in Rome have a front row seat to history as the world mourns the death of Pope Francis.

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The Italian Resistance offered an entire generation the chance to make radical choices, to decide not only on their deeds but ...

Italian grape and wine domestication took 7,000 years. Seeds show a shift from wild to cultivated types. Sardinia played a key role early.

The pope’s portrait is everywhere these days. Here, we found it in a store of liturgical paraphernalia in central Rome. There were also many other symbols around, as a testament to how religion and ...

Thousands of people gathered Thursday for a glimpse of Pope Francis’s body on the second day of public tributes, after St ...

Rome Prize winners. Rome Prize architecture winners are: Akima Brackeen of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and Cory ...

Had enough of the crowds? Once you’ve seen Rome, consider a day trip to these lesser known but no less beautiful towns for ...

The faithful will be flocking to Rome to honor the death of Pope Francis, who died on April 21, with his funeral scheduled ...