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Tour of Vatican Museums shows evangelising power of art
Unfrescoed wall next to House of Apollo the Lyre-player has collapsed at the Pompeii archaeological site, ANSA sources said Friday.
The number of bodies recovered from the ruins of an Italian hotel buried by an avalanche rose to 24 on Wednesday, local authorities said.
Italy's constitutional court on Wednesday overhauled a contested electoral law, presenting a new system based on proportional representation that could open the way for early elections in 2017.
Last year, 181,000 migrants reached Italy by sea, crossing the Mediterranean at the risk of their lives. More are expected to come this year. But Italy, with its sluggish economy, is struggling to host those migrants, especially asylum seekers who are guaranteed six months of free housing and meals under Italian law.
A new smartphone app is trying to help consumers distinguish between products that are genuinely "made in Italy" and those that may be fraudulently using the label.
An Italian rescue helicopter has crashed in the mountains near the site of a deadly avalanche that killed more than a dozen people last week, according to local media.
Hopes began to fade Tuesday that any more survivors would be found from a devastating avalanche, as the death toll climbed to 15 and rescue crews were hit with another tragedy nearby: reports of a downed helicopter ferrying an injured skier off the slopes.
The boss of BT's Continental European operation is to resign after the firm was forced to write down the value of its Italian unit by £530m after years of "inappropriate behaviour".
A teacher credited with saving many pupils from a burning bus after it crashed in northern Italy lost his own children in the fire, officials say.