ROME – As many as four Italian universities' faculties are rated in the world’s top 10 for their teaching according to QS World University Rankings by Subject published Thursday. 

 ROME — Venice mayor Luigi Brugnaro answered questions about his city’s new access contribution, designed to manage the influx of tourists, and its associated communication campaign at Rome’s Palazzo Grazioli, the new headquarters of the Association of the Foreign Press in Italy. 

 Venice budget councilor Michele Zuin, tourism councilor Simone Venturini, and the operational director of transportation company Vela SPA Fabrizio D'Oria appeared alongside the mayor. 

 ROME – An explosion in the centre of a hydroelectric power station in Bargi, near Bologna, has left several people dead and others trapped underground with "not much hope" of finding them alive, emergency services said.

 At least seven people are feared dead, after three deaths were confirmed by rescue services, with four workers still missing and another five seriously injured. This makes it one of Italy's worst industrial accidents in recent years. 

 ROME – An ISIS member was arrested in Leonardo di Vinci airport near Fiumicino, Rome, after trying to enter Italy with a fake passport, police said.

 Ikhomi Sayrakhmonzoda, 32, from Tajikistan was the subject of an international “red notice”, with a warrant out for his arrest for “having joined the ranks of the Islamic State and having gone to Syria to fight in 2014.” Interpol said he had fought against the local Syrian government as “an active member of the terrorist faction of ISIS.” This comes weeks after the terrorist attack in Moscow which was perpetrated by Tajiks.