ROME--  Lazio captain Stefano Mauri was amongst 19 people arrested in the latest police action against corruption and match fixing in Italian football.

ROME -- International Italian car company Fiat supports the international efforts for a diplomatic solution of the issues relating to the relations with Iran.

ROME-- Investigators are questioning nine people regarding the deaths of four workers killed in building collapses in the earthquake that hit North Italy at the weekend.

A 36-year old Parma woman who stabbed herself to death on the beach at Ostia said in a note that she wanted to see Rome before she died.

ROME-- At a ceremony to commemorate 160 years of the national police force, the President of the Republic thanked officers and spoke of the importance of staying on “high alert.”

ROME -- 1992 was a traumatic year for Italy. This year has seen a wave of commemorations of those events.

ROME-- The new head of employers’ union Confindustria, Giorgio Squinzi, has called the “tax burden” in Italy “intolerable” and questioned the current programme of reforms.

ROME – One of Italy’s top criminal lawyers, Enzo Fragala, was brutally beaten to death by the Mafia as a warning to MPs who fail to carry out Cosa Nostra orders, a senior magistrate has disclosed.

ROME-- Two people, one of them a 15-year-old boy, have been shot and killed and another wounded in a bloody night of violence in the southern city of Naples, police say.

 ROME-- The Brindisi school which was the scene of the bombing which killed one girl and wounded more reopened as police hunt the killer using video footage of the attack.

BOLOGNA-- Thousands spent a cold and wet night in tents in the aftermath of an earthquake that killed seven people on Sunday.

ROME -- A former rector of a Basilica where a mob boss was buried is under investigation on suspicion of involvement in the murky 1983 kidnap of Emanuela Orlandi, a Vatican schoolgirl.

ROME-- Regional councils will be given the right to impose a tax on pet ownership in a new series of measures soon to go into effect.

ROME – Police in Sicily have issued arrest warrants for 14 Italians and Egyptians suspected of running a large-scale illegal immigrant trafficking operation, police say.

 ROME-- As many as 14,000 people are under surveillance in Italy, Interior Minister Anna Maria Cancellieri has disclosed.

ROME – Police have seized hotel properties worth 20 million euros belonging to former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

ROME -- Three women and eight men have been arrested in connection with a Romanian prostitution ring operating in Tivoli, just outside the capital.

ROME -- “Long live the revolution, bring on the revolution – this is the right moment,” Alfredo Davanzo, member of the leftist terrorist group the New Red Brigades shouted in court.

ROME – Almost one quarter of Italian children are at risk of poverty according to record figures announced by Save the Children.

PISA – Yet again, suicide has hit the headlines in Italy after a 40-year-old woman jumped to her death from the fourth storey of the Tower of Pisa.

ROME – Unidentified human remains have been found near the body of Rome gang boss Enrico De Pedis, suspected of being involved in the disappearance of Vatican schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi.

 ROME-- Thousands participated in an anti-abortion ‘March for Life’ in Rome on Mother’s Day, joined by Mayor Giorgio Alemanno.

ROME-- An anarchist group has claimed responsibility for the kneecapping of a nuclear boss in Genoa last week, and threatened further attacks.

ROME - Six thousand musicians aged between 12 and 25 will be travelling from 25 European countries to attend one of the most important musical events for young people.