Italy

 ROME—Do you want to heal past trauma, overcome addictive behavior, and awaken to your true nature in a spiritually healing island paradise?

ROME – Here's my recipe: buy a cheap ticket to Italy, wrap up your day-dreaming, take your four wheels (I mean your wheelchair, not your Ferrari), cram in ambitions, surround with inspiring people.

ROME --Economic Development Minister Flavio Zanonato has visited the Maserati plant in Grugliasco where the new Quattroporte and Maserati Ghibli, to be launched this August, are produced.

ROME – A rare mix between a zebra and a donkey has been born in an animal reserve in Florence, owners have confirmed.

ROME – Police have seized 36 manuscripts and thousands of letters, drawings and notes made by Giovanni Verga in an operation conducted by the Cultural Heritage Protection Department.

ROME -- The world’s largest expat survey has been launched this week, offering participants the chance to win £1,000 in cash.

ROME – The crew of an RAF bomber discovered nearly 70 years after it was shot down by anti-aircraft gunfire have been buried at an official ceremony in Italy.

PISA- Set in 1928 in the region known as Tuscia, this mystery novel by American author Linda Lappin will intrigue you with the vista it opens on part of Italy that deserves to be better known.

ROME – Celebrated Italian screenwriter Vincenzo Cerami has died at the age of 72 following a long illness, his family has confirmed.

ROME -- The Interior Minister's Private Secretary Giuseppe Procaccini has anounced his resignation over the controversial deportation of the wife and child of a prominent Kazakh dissident.

ROME – As the contentious restoration works in the area surrounding the Colosseum proceed, the city is bracing itself for a new and hotly-debated traffic scheme.

ROME – Italian police seized undisclosed substances from suites in which Jamaican sprinters Sherone Simpson and Asafa Powell were staying after testing positive for banned stimulants.

ROME -- Britain could consider suspending the Erasmus scheme for Italy in retaliation for discrimination against UK lecturers, Minister for Europe David Lidington said Friday.