PRATO - Prosecutors in the Tuscan town of Prato have begun a manslaughter investigation after a fire at a Chinese-owned garment factory killed at least seven people.

ROME -- The Italian Senate approved the expulsion of Silvio Berlusconi from parliament Wednesday following his conviction and sentence for tax fraud, officials said.

MILAN – Italy at last has agreed to seek a solution to long-running discrimination against foreign lecturers in Italy's universities in what UK Europe Minister David Lidington calls “real progress,