ROME – Roman taxi drivers are to be offered lessons “courtesy, hospitality, language, and excellence” by the department of tourism.

 Taxi drivers are something of a wildcard when it comes to tourists, you never know what to expect. While there are, like any city, bad actors, some confrontations with foreigners arise from cultural misunderstandings; this is made all the more problematic by the fact that they are often the first Italian that these people meet.

ROME - Don Contin, the parish priest from Padua with a secret perversion, has been dragged back into the limelight after another investigation has been launched concerning domestic violence.

 Previously, Don Contin was allegedly embroiled in a sex scandal after a jilted lover, one of his parishioners, turned to the Carabinieri after her shocking stories were ignored by church authorities, and this is what she had to say:

ROME - Marco Filippeschi, the Mayor of Pisa, has denounced state neglect of the Coltano radio centre as "a national scandal", in comments to Il Fatto Quotidiano on the site from where inventor and Nobel prize recipient, Guglielmo Marconi, sent the first wireless longwave transmission.

 The mayor pointed out that he had made many attempts in his ten years in charge to have the site properly repaired, including writing to the current president, Sergio Mattarella, but that he "had lost hope" of progress being made.