Investigators say senior Catholic has evidence about 1983 disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi.
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Italy’s high-speed train line under the Alps gathers pace
After 20 years of protest against the tunnel, excavation for the TAV rail scheme is due to begin in the Susa valley near Turin.
Italy’s Northern League: Bossi booted
IT is the most sensational, and perhaps the most significant, development in Italian politics since the fall of Silvio Berlusconi’s government last November: this afternoon Umberto Bossi resigned as leader of the Northern League, the ostensibly separatist movement he founded 21 years earlier.
Umberto Bossi’s Northern League at centre of Italian corruption allegations
Silvio Berlusconi defends former ally after prosecutors claim taxpayers’ money used for improvements to party leader’s home.
Eurozone crisis live: Spain announces €27bn of Budget savings
1.05pm: John Hooper in Rome has sent in this dispatch reminding us that the euro crisis is not just about bond spreads and GDP.
Gaddafi family assets worth more than €1bn seized in Italy
Late dictator, his son and intelligence chief owned property, shares in football clubs, and a Harley-Davidson motorbike.
Italy’s reforms: Monti’s labour-law tangle
The government of Mario Monti is pressing ahead with labour reforms over union objections and threats of strikes.
Italy’s jobs minister fears for life as labour market shaken up
The last full-scale attempt to free up Italy’s labour market was 10 years ago. The man behind that reform was Marco Biagi who was shot dead by the self-styled New Red Brigades.
Eurozone crisis live: Italy’s new employment laws
11.42am: John Hooper, our Rome correspondent, has been looking at the controversy around Italy’s new employment laws, which form the centrepiece of Mario Monti’s government’s programme for boosting its moribund economy.
Rocking the Holy See
A string of leaked documents is shaking things up at the Vatican.