Barilla to invest €100 million in new Foggia pasta hub
The Barilla Group is restructuring its southern Italy operations, with two other plants set to pass to industrial partners under multi-year supply deals.
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Rome teacher recovering after pupil attack at Centocelle school
The 66-year-old literature teacher, in her final year before retirement, is in shock but not in a life-threatening condition. A 13-year-old pupil has been identified as the attacker.
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No damage to Uffizi paintings after Florence storm leak
A skylight leak at the Uffizi sent water splashing onto the case protecting Caravaggio’s Bacchus during Thursday’s flash flood, but inspections confirm the works themselves came through unscathed.
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Mancini names over 70 players in first squad call-up
The returning coach, Roberto Mancini, has cast a wide net ahead of a demanding run of four Nations League fixtures in eleven days.
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Giorgetti: Italy’s debt burden rising at “alarming rate”
Speaking from Dublin, the economy minister points to global shocks and rising borrowing costs as Italy’s public debt burden grows alarmingly.
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Government to scrap road tax for 14.5 million vehicles from 2027
Rome moves to axe the hated bollo auto (road tax) for all motorcycles and over 70% of all cars on the road ahead of elections. It is part of a wider package to shore up household spending power.
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Trajan’s Baths open to the public on Rome’s Oppian Hill
The ruins of Emperor Trajan’s Baths have opened to visitors on Rome’s Oppian Hill. A restored underground gallery on the Oppian Hill reveals the largest mosaic ever found in the city and a fresco using perspective seven centuries before Brunelleschi.
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Mafia considered blaming the Left for 1992-93 bombing campaign
Former Cosa Nostra boss tells Milan court the Sicilian Mafia considered pinning its bombing campaign on the political Left as a favour to Silvio Berlusconi. He claims a veiled threat of further attacks was sent if he failed to help.
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Off-grid family assigned new social worker
According to reports, Giuseppina Tittaferrante takes over the case of the British-Australian couple and their three children, known as the ‘family of the woods’. The Abruzzo Order of Social Workers opens proceedings against their previous social worker who removed the children from their off-grid family.
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Italian politicians split sharply over AfD Saxony-Anhalt win
Deputy premiers Tajani and Salvini take opposing views on the regional election victory in Germany of far-right party AfD. Opposition figures warn of a wider European reckoning.
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