Two Italian prosecutors who staked their reputations on securing a life sentence for US student Amanda Knox after claiming she killed Briton Meredith Kercher are now themselves being investigated over a video they put to jurors during the trial.
Italian police seized about $1.5 billion worth of assets last week from the family of dead former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in response to a request by international prosecutors in The Hague.
Leading Italian mergers and acquisitions specialist Andrea Carta Mantiglia is to take over the top slot in his firm's London office, Rome and Milan-based Bonelli Erede Pappalardo has announced.
When he took the reins from Silvio Berlusconi as Italy's prime minister, Mario Monti was hailed as the technocrat wizard who would achieve what no elected politician has managed for decades - to get a grip on the country's finances.