Pope Considers Possibility of Women Deacons

The Roman Curia remains cautious: “Let’s wait and see”

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What Italy’s New Civil Unions Law Entails

Duty to provide support and right to a survivor’s pension, but no to stepchild adoptions and no obligation to remain faithful: the most controversial points of the law

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Terrorist Investigations Lead to Arrest of Three Refugees

Coded messages used to ask for weapons: “I need two slings”. Phone taps from investigation in Bari lead to the arrest of three refugees in Puglia and Milan: “A mujahidin wants to be a martyr ... the wonderful jihad has arrived”. Phone calls also provide details on migrant smuggling

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Banca Etruria Staff Told to Sell Risky Bonds to Customers

Investigators uncover circular from top management. Two executives investigated and searched. Bonds recommended to various clients as safe investments, on a par with straight bonds and government securities. Customers encouraged to “disinvest”

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Italian Economist Mistaken for Terrorist

Guido Menzio, 40, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, noted that: “All they had to do was look me up on Google, but they didn’t ask me a single question before handing me over to security”

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Psychologist in Fortuna Case Talks of Children’s Courage

Rosetta Cappelluccio was one of the first to visit Parco Verde after the girl’s death. “I realised that child abuse had been going even before forensic tests confirmed it”

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Regeni’s E-mail and Google Profile Accessed from Egypt

Mysterious intrusion a month after his death, although Cairo has always denied hacking into his account. Italian investigators ask for help from Google

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Chinese Police in Rome “Keen to Understand Italian Law”

Four officers are working on the streets alongside Italian Police and Carabinieri to assist Chinese tourists in Rome and Milan. One wrote: “I attended middle school in Modena, so I feel at home here”

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Renzi Launches Nationwide Campaign Ahead of Referendum

Prime Minister launches tour in support of October’s referendum on constitutional reform, speaking at the Niccolini Theatre in Florence. “Parliament has woken up; the spell has been broken”

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“Don’t Come to Syria, Blow Yourself up in Italy”

Investigators examine WhatsApp voice messages used to enlist terrorists: “Italy is the land of crusaders, and you know that if you attack there it will be a great deed.” Jihadist boxer: “If I can get my family to safety, I swear I’ll carry out an attack in the Vatican”

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Officers from Beijing to Patrol Chinatowns in Milan and Rome

Go-ahead for Interior Ministry’s experimental project. In Milan, Chinese officers will work in the centre and Via Paolo Sarpi; in Rome, around Piazza Vittorio, Termini station and Santa Maria Maggiore

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Migrants: Where the Welfare System Went Wrong

Room and board with no obligations to work or study: this is the approach to welfare taken in Italian refugee centres, and is the exact opposite of the German model. The Interior Ministry has written to mayors asking them to have asylum seekers do small jobs for the council, but so far without any result

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Intern at Court Was Serving 30-Year Sentence for Murder

Post-graduate school offering professional qualification courses was unaware of his identity, and gave him access to offices and confidential information of investigating magistrates in Milan

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Tito Italys Oldest Sauropod Came over from Africa

Three fossilized dinosaur bones made it possible to reconstruct the Titanosaurs’ oldest representative in southern Europe, which lived 112 million years ago

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Gun-Toting Teenage Neapolitan Mobsters Pose on Facebook

Guns shown off for the enjoyment of friends, and posts expressing contempt for the police and carabinieri

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Turnout of 31.18% as Referendum Fails to Stop Drilling

Renzi: “Playing to the crowd doesn’t pay.” A quorum was still far off when polling stations closed their doors at 11 pm on Sunday night, and according to the latest figures, only Basilicata went over the 50% threshold required for a valid vote. Lowest turnouts in Trentino Alto Adige, Campania, Sicily and Calabria

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Champions League Final: Hotel Rooms at €4000 for Two Nights

Hotels are already 85% full, and owners argue that price rises are normal in a free market

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Padoan Dismisses Discrepancies in GDP Forecasts

The Economy Minister, talking in the United States, focused on the discrepancies between the forecasts contained in Italy’s economic programme and the less rosy view taken by IMF economists: “Our forecasts have a very low margin of error, and we’ll see who is right, us or the IMF”

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Umbrella Killer Back in Jail for Posting Photos on Facebook

On 26 April 2007, Doina Matei killed Vanessa Russo by striking her in the eye with an umbrella after a heated argument in a Rome metro station

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Austria Builds Wall in Brenner Pass to Stop Migrants

Decision made without consulting Bolzano, that reopens wounds from 70 years ago. The Brenner Pass and the border that symbolises South Tyrolean discontent, as governor seeks help from Rome

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