An elaborate restoration of a ruin once home to gladiators in the hours before they embarked on bouts to the death has got underway in Pompeii, five years after its collapse raised serious questions about the management of the famous Unesco site.
An Italian set himself on fire on Monday in front of the house of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and was rushed to hospital in a serious but stable condition, Italian media said.
UPDATED: The Vatican has begun preparing for a landmark trial of a disgraced former archbishop at the centre of one of the Catholic Church's most damaging child sex abuse cases.
A man in the northern Italian city of Vicenza was alarmed to discover a First World War bomb, which experts said could still explode, hidden in the home he recently inherited from his aunt.
Italian households might be poorer than the French, but they are richer than the Germans when it comes to average wealth, according to a report released on Wednesday by Credit Suisse.
