The Italian police has arrested an advisor to Italian defence and aerospace giant Finmeccanica and Italy’s former industry minister is being investigated in a widening international graft probe of the

legendary Italian car designer Sergio Pininfarina, whose company has designed Ferraris for decades, died in the early hours of Tuesday after a long illness.

The Catholic Church, God and a “surprise” are all in the mix at Madonna’s concert in the Italian capital on Tuesday, the popstar told La Repubblica daily in an interview.

Mario Monicelli, the celebrated film director of the Italian comedy, took his own life by leaping from the fifth-floor balcony of a Rome hospital where he was being treated for cancer. He was 95.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is reportedly considering the purchase of a luxury villa for his daughter in the exclusive community of Olgiata, north of Rome.
Adnkronos has learned that Mr Berlusconi travelled to the town 25 km north of the city for secret talks late on Thursday.

Lisbon, May 11: Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday described the clerical sexual abuse scandal as “the greatest persecution of the Church,” while acknowledging it arose from sins inside the Church.