ROME—Loro Piana, a luxury goods company based in Italy, has secured a significant share in Sanin SA, an Argentinian organisation which possesses the right to carry out the safe and controlled shearing of wild vicunas, a highly lucrative breed for poachers in South America.

MILAN-- Milano Food Week is far more than what you may expect.

ROME-- Both Italian and UK news headlines have been tainted this month by the recent re-application of the Gelmini law, which has seen the salaries of up to 91 foreign lecturers, or lettori as they are known in Italian, being slashed by up to sixty per cent.

ROME-- The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) signed in Rome a €600 million loan for rebuilding industrial infrastructure in areas hit by the earthquake in Emilia-Romagna one year ago.

ROME–Prime Minister Enrico Letta faces mounting pressure over discrimination against UK lecturers working in Italian universities with a question tabled in the House of Commons on the pay cuts.

ROME-- MEISSEN® ITALIA,  a new Italian luxury group and the daughter of MEISSEN® Manufactory which has over 300 years of history, has just announced the launch of its new brand of couture.

ROME -- Former Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti died at his home in the Italian capital Monday, his family said. He was 94.

ROME-- On Wednesday the Pitigliani Centre in Rome hosted a conference “For Ferramonti. Memoria 70x25” organised by Anna Longo from the RAI and Teresa Grande from the University of Calabria.

 ROME -- These last few days as Enrico Letta became the favourite for prime minister, the question from all but serious political nerds was “Who is Letta?

ROME– Silvio Berlusconi’s “dauphin” Angelino Alfano was named interior minister in Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s cabinet Sunday, Radical stalwart Emma Bonino is foreign minister and ex central bank

 ROME– A gunman fired shots at Palazzo Chigi, the office of Prime Minister Enrico Letta, Sunday, wounding two Carabinieri paramilitary police and a passer by as Italy's new Government was sworn in.

 ROME - Prime Minister delegate Enrico Letta conferred with President Napolitano Saturday over his cabinet as horsetrading between the Democratic Party and Freedom Alliance over key jobs continued.

ROME– A self-syled secret agent who claims he helped kidnap Vatican schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi was convicted for killing in 1983 the son of a Uruguayan official at the UN food agency IFAD, police

ROME-- For a brief moment, the helterskelter is in a trough, calm and waiting for the next climb to be followed inevitably by another downward hurtle.

 ROME -- Italian President Giorgio Napolitano was re-elected for a second term as head of state Saturday, becoming the first politician to serve twice leading the republic at the Quirinal Palace.