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.

 ROME  -- Former European Commission chief Romano Prodi was catapulted into the race for Italian President Friday but failed to win an absolute majority after MP5 protest party electors denied him

BRUSSELS -A European Parliament leader has told Europe's Commission “finally" to punish Italy for discriminating against UK lecturers in universities in a “race law” recalling Fascist anti-semitism

ROME-- New information is emerging about the Capaci massacre which killed Judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesa Morvillo and three bodyguards as the Anti-Mafia Investigation launches a fresh series of probes and searches.

ROME-- One of the plagues afflicting Italy at the moment is a dramatic increase in betting – scratch cards, the lottery and on line Texas Hold’em. But despite the national gambling obsession, no one is putting any money on who is going to form the next government, or when it will be formed.