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A jogger has done in a park in Rome and lurid discovery. Under the foliage in Tre Fontane lay the charred and burning body of a woman. The police assume a murder.

The leader of the Italian Five Star Movement (M5S) sees opportunities to form a government with the right-wing populist Lega. M5S leader Luigi Di Maio reiterated, however, that he did not want to enter into a covenant with the political partners of the Lega, including the party Forza Italia of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella has called on the President of the Senate to speed up the search for a new government. Maria Casellati was invited to sit down with the parties to see who could cooperate.

A brutal robbery in an archaeological museum in Rome. Two armed robbers decided to raid the Central Montemartini museum on Sunday while the visitors lined up. They managed to earn 10,000 euros.

The ambulance and the plane are ready to take Alfie Evans to a hospital in Rome. But according to a British judge, the two-year-old boy from Liverpool is incurably ill at the beginning of next month, and it is in his interest to stop the treatment and let the boy die.

According to the Italian president Sergio Mattarella, there is still no shot in the talks about a new coalition government. He spoke with party leaders for two days, but on Thursday Mattarella said that there is no combination on the table that has a majority in the parliament. His attempts ' to form a government that lasts for five years \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; continue next week.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella today receives the four most important political party leaders, hoping to finally get more clarity about possible cabinet formation. In theory, he could then designate a cabinet reformer.

Pope Francis has called for peace in the Holy Land in his Easter message. He said that this is now being affected by conflicts that 'do not spare the defenseless.'

Italian authorities hold their hearts for Easter attacks, the most important feast for Christianity. The outgoing Minister of the Interior Marco Minniti warns that Muslim terrorists have Rome in their sights.

Just before Easter, Pope Francis caused panic among many believers by saying in an interview with the Italian newspaper la Repubblica that hell does not exist.

The Italian police rolled up a terror cell that was in contact with the perpetrator of the attack on the Christmas market in Berlin, Anis Amri. The police arrested five suspects in Rome and nearby Latina.

The many coins that are lying at the bottom of the world-famous Trevi Fountain thanks to the masses of tourists in Rome are a fierce struggle between the municipality of Rome and the Roman Catholic organization Caritas.

The united front of the European Union against Russia may soon be severely dented. The Italian elections on 4 March have one big winner: Vladimir Putin.

Criminal art dealers have luxury villas for tourists on the Amalfi Coast, south of Naples, decorated with sometimes ancient stolen paintings. The Italian Marechaussee has seized a total of 37 works of great cultural-historical value.

Luigi Di Maio, leader of the Five Star movement, said that his party is open to talks with the other political parties. The protest party of Di Maio achieved the most votes (32 percent) according to the preliminary results.

Matteo Renzi, leader of the Democratic Party in Italy, has decided to resign. His party suffered a considerable loss during the national elections. That reports the Italian news agency Ansa.

After counting the votes in most constituencies, it is clear that the populist and Eurosceptic parties are the big winners of the Italian parliamentary elections.

The exit polls of the Italian parliamentary elections show that the Five Star movement has clearly become the largest party, with around 30% of the votes. In the second place, afterwards, the center-left governmental party PD with some more than 20%.

The changing of the electoral system, incorrectly printed or incorrectly delivered ballots and a good turnout have resulted in long queues for polling stations in some places in Italy on Sunday. In Palermo, approximately two hundred polling stations were open hours later than intended, because the ballots were not virtuous and had to be printed and delivered again.

The attendance at the parliamentary elections in Italy appears to be higher on Sunday than at the ballot box in 2013. Italian media reported that at 12 noon more than 19 percent of voters had voted. Five years ago that was almost 15 percent.

When he cast his vote for the Italian elections, 81-year-old Silvio Berlusconi was surprised by a topless activist. The woman called for not to vote for Berlusconi. 'His time is over', was written on the body of the activist.

An economic lagging Italy since the crisis is going to choose a parliament on Sunday that probably will not be able to take away the disappointment of many voters. Party leaders have promised to throw money and get out to the EU, the euro and illegal immigration. But the question is whether there will be a stable government from the colorful collection of parties and occasional coalitions that will tackle the underlying problems after the polls.

Young and old face each other in the Italian elections tomorrow. The generation gap that divides Italy in social and economic terms will also be reflected in the ballot box.

More than fifty million Italian voters are threatening to choose a parliament on Sunday that can not form a stable government because of divisions. The country changed the electoral system last year to create some order. With a threshold of 3 percent and some changes in the way parliamentary seats are achieved, a stable government with a majority could come. Whoever obtains about 40 percent of the votes, would have a majority on Monday.

The first arrests show that the murdered Slovak journalist Jan Kuciak was on the right track when he investigated ties between the powerful crime organization 'ndrangheta' and the corruption in Slovakia.

The fourth economy of Europe would become uncontrollable by the elections on 4 March, leave the EU and discharge the euro. The new government is almost certainly moving to the right, while extremes on the left and right are trumpeting loudly. But worries on financial markets over Italy are declining drastically.

A week before the parliamentary elections in Italy, tens of thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday in different cities of the country. Significantly more people than expected took part in an anti-fascist demonstration in Rome despite the bad weather. The protest was peaceful, said a spokesperson for the police in the evening.

A new training course for devil exorcers has been organized in the Sicilian capital of Palermo. It is badly needed, because there is a huge demand for exorcists in Italy.

In the abusive scandal around the Chilean bishop Juan Barros, Charles Scicluna, the Vatican's envoy, heard the first testimony of an abuse victim.

Italian former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he was the most important architect of the end of the Cold War.