HELSINKI - Finnish crane company, Konecranes, has acquired Italian Trevolution Service SRL, one of Italy’s largest independent crane service companies specializing in crane maintenance, repairs, m

 LODI – A child of four fell from a second-floor balcony but was caught by a 20-year-old.

  ROME – Following the death of four farm workers by drowning in a sewage tank, wider concerns about a rash of accident

 ROME – Passengers evacuated train carriages and walked hundreds of metres along the subway tunnel following “technical problems” on Rome’s Metro B, train commuters said on Friday.

 ROME – As the Ocean Viking migrant rescue ship awaits a green light for a safe port to dock, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is confident of a “prompt solution” following his meeting with Eu

 ROME – Three people have been arrested and six suspended as part of the ongoing investigations following the Morandi bridge disaster.

 BERLIN – Germany’s support for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is crucial for continued assistance to millions of Syrians inside and outside the country, said the UN

 TURIN – Planting 60 million trees – one for every Italian citizen – as soon as possible throughout the country is the challenge set by Slow Food movement guru Carlo Petrini in the fight against cl

 NAPLES – A top Chinese model has had two and a half million dollars’ worth of jewellery stolen while a wedding guest in Capri.

 ROME – 600,000 Italian students dropped out of school in the academic year 2018 to 2019, reports Il Fatto Quotidiano.

 GENOA – The local government of Genoa, which has come under fire for sponsoring an anti-stalking event, has denied supporting an “Apertif with the stalker,” local sources said on Thursday.

 NAPLES – The “Naples Naples: Of Lava, Porcelain and Music” exhibition is opening September 21, at the Museum and Royal Forest of Capodimonte. 

 ROME – The Ocean Viking migrant-rescue ship carrying 84 migrants "must enter, no ifs or buts," Democratic Party (PD) leader Nicola Zingaretti said in a television interview late on Tuesday, when a

 ROME – New Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte was meeting with EU officials on Wednesday to discuss issues of budgets, funding and migration, after winning confidence votes in the two chambers

 PIACENZA – Forty-five-year-old Massimo Sebastini, who confessed to strangling Elisa Pomarelli, 28, has admitted to watching over and sleeping near his victim’s lifeless body, Il Messaggero 

 VENICE – The new minister for Cultural Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, has committed to end the presence of large cruise ships in Venice.

 ROME – Stefano Delle Chiaie, neo-fascist terrorist and former fugitive implicated in the 1980 Bologna massacre that killed 85 people, has died overnight in Rome’s Vannini hospital aged 82, local s

 ROME – The Run for Peace is helping to fund charity work in aid of the victims of domestic violence.

 NAPLES – Not only are Rome’s relations with Moscow being tested over the arrest in Italy of a Russian executive suspected of industrial espionage, the case marks one of the first challenges facing