GENOA – A judge in Genoa has acquitted Brazilian ballerina Alessia Mendes of murdering her husband, whom she stabbed 12 times, on the grounds of self-defence.

 A Genoese court heard that Mendes had endured years of abuse at the hands of Alessio Rossi and eventually, in a confrontation in October 2017, took a kitchen knife and stabbed Rossi to death at their home in the Campasso quarter of Genoa.

ROME - Italian high-tech company Leonardo announced Thursday that the Portuguese Ministry of Defence has selected the AW119Kx as its new multirole single engine helicopter. The multinational enterprise has insisted the new model will provide greater versatility and performance compared to the current Portuguese Air Force fleet of single engine aircraft.

ROME - In an interview with Il Quotidiano Nazionale, Chancellor of the Scuola Normale Superiore Vincenzo Barone spoke out about the discrimination faced by female professors at the university. While “preparation, merit and ability alone should be taken into consideration when assessing a professor,” he claims to have received “offensive, vulgar and defamatory feedback, littered with sexual references” about female professors.

 “Every time we put forward a woman for a new teaching position, all hell breaks loose,” he declared.

TARANTO – A 22-year-old migrant has taken his own life in Castellaneta Marina after his request for asylum was denied, sources have confirmed.

 Amadou Jawo had come to Italy from Gambia two years previously but received a rejection of his political asylum request a few days ago. Tragically, he then hung himself in the house he had been staying in, in the Taranto region.