ROME — Prominent members of the Serbian community in Italy marked 130 years of diplomatic relations between Belgrade and Rome Friday at a glittering reception in the Serb Embassy residence in  fashionable Monti Parioli. The party may be one of the last Serbian Ambassador Sanda Raskovic-Ivic plays hostess to in the imposing building which likely will pass to Slovenia or Croatia under agreements to divide up property belonging to the former Yugoslavia, diplomatic sources say.

TRIPOLI, Libya — Many Libyans rejoiced after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s landmark meeting with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi last week, but a power struggle among the strongman’s sons could plunge the oil-rich nation into chaos if the66year-old leader died suddenly.

ROME --When the need to make out was urgent, not weighed against getting a night’s sleep, my Italian boyfriend and I did what everyone in Italy without their own place does when in need of sex. We drove to one of the well-known parking spots around the city and proceeded to steam up the windows.

While making out in cars is hardly unique to Italy , it’s far more widespread than across the Atlantic . Italians know all too well that how, where and when sex takes place is an issue of space.