Rome -Former Mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno has been placed under investigation on suspicion of involvement in a mafia style organisation using public funds in the capital that has led to 37 arrests

ROME – The drawn out fight of foreign lecturers for equal rights in Italy has been revived by the revelation of an error by the European Commission in its approval of the shameful Gelmini law.

ROME – Fabrizio, a 50-year-old Sicilian doctor has become the first Italian to become infected with Ebola, and is to be transported to Rome for treatment, Italian officials confirmed on Monday. 

FLORENCE - The seventh edition of the BTO “Buy Tourism Online” conference is due to start on Dec 2 at Fortezza da Basso in Florence.

ROME – Samantha Cristoforetti has fulfilled her dream of becoming the first Italian woman in space after she travelled to the International Space Station on Monday.

ROME – Prime Minister Renzi has denounced the choice of Italy’s two biggest trade unions, the CGIL and UIL, to stage a strike on Dec 12 against the Jobs Act labor reform.

MILAN – A two-year investigation into the ‘Ndrangheta organised crime syndicate which culminated in 40 arrests on Tuesday managed to record a notorious “swearing in ceremony” for the first time. 

ROME - The Emiglia Romagna civil protection agency has warned that severe overflowing from the water basins of several large rivers is likely. 

ROME – Clashes between police and protestors in Padua and Milan have coincided with major public transport closures in Friday’s nationwide, so called “social”, strike.

ROME - A new law was introduced by the Senate this week reducing VAT to 10 percent for moorings in Marina Resorts to encourage marine lodging.

ROME- Clashes took place between police and residents protesting against a new refugee centre in the Tor Sapienza surburb on Tuesday night.

GENOA –Severe weather warnings in place until Wednesday as prosecutors open a manslaughter inquiry into the deaths of an elderly couple in Leivi.

ROME – Thursday’s storms have left Rome in disarray with a possible tornado on the way in Sicily.

ROME – “The worst is yet to come” warns Roman mayor Ignazio Marino as the city remains on red-alert for further flooding.