Mediterranean countries Cyprus, Greece, Israel and Italy on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding to build the world's longest underwater natural gas pipeline to supply Europe.
Italian police detained dozens of politicians and businessmen around Naples on Wednesday in a swoop that revealed the local mafia has got its tentacles into archaeology and the crematorium business.
Two boys were injured in Milan on Friday morning when part of the roof of their school caved in - the second collapsed school roof in the region this week.
Iraq announced on Tuesday that it has awarded Italian firm Trevi a contract to repair and maintain the country's largest
dam, which is in danger of catastrophic collapse.
An Italian construction group said on Tuesday it had signed a preliminary agreement with Iran to build five hospitals, just
after the lifting of economic sanctions against Tehran in a deal over its nuclear programme.
Libyan security forces searching for four
Italians kidnapped west of the capital this week have so far made no progress
in finding them, an official said Friday.
Renovators who restored pop legend Sting's Tuscan villa and the Uffizi Gallery in Florence were allegedly linked to an organized crime syndicate, Italian media reports said on Thursday, citing a police investigation.
Energy giants Enel and ArcelorMittal will pull out of the construction of two nuclear reactors in Romania after a
Chinese company entered the deal, Romanian officials said on Monday.
A Romanian worker's body was dumped by his boss after he died on an Italian building site, police said Friday, underlining Italy's record as one of Europe's worst for workplace deaths.
Italian police on Friday placed 14 people under house arrest as part of a major investigation into alleged corruption in contracts to build a giant water barrier to protect Venice from flooding.
