ROME, Jan 31 (Reuters) - An angel in a church in central Rome has been restored to look like Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a national newspaper reported on Saturday, prompting the culture ministry to investigate and Meloni to laugh off the affair.

Members of Italy’s Ladin minority, which settled a millennium ago in the Dolomite mountain hamlet that's now an Olympic host city, are disappointed the Winter Games will not spotlight their culture

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni overnight called the release "an affront to the memory of the victims of the New Year's Eve tragedy and an insult to their families".

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she won’t immediately sign onto President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” charter, signaling that doing so would create legal risks.

Italy's prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, joked on Saturday she does not look like an angel, after a row blew up in the media over a restored fresco in a Rome church.But, after several opposition politicians complained,

Over the whole of 2025, the economy grew by 0.7% from the year earlier, when adjusted for the number of working days, ISTAT said. It will release on March 2 non-workday-adjusted growth data for last year, ​comparable with the government's 0.5% target.

Alessandro Bastoni is set to return to the starting line-up when Inter travel to face Cremonese on Sunday in Serie A.The news comes after the defender was rested during the recent Champions League

For years, a rumor has circulated online that U.S. President Donald Trump once claimed that Italy and the United States have been allies since Ancient Rome. As alleged proof, social media users pointed to an image supposedly showing a translator's reaction to Trump's comments.

CREMONA, Italy — Cremona, Italy — long considered the birthplace of the violin — continues to honor a musical tradition nearly 500 years old through its master craftsmen, historic cathedral and renowned violin museum.