Source: Independent.co.uk
The Mafia is now the biggest business in Italy, with organised crime netting Mob bosses more than £63bn a year, or 7 per cent of the country's gross domestic product, from drugs, extortion and prostitution.And you thought that crime didn't pay...
Source: horror tale by richard davies
an artist makes the ultimate sacrifice to create his masterpiece.
Source: Italy Travel Notes
Written by Douglas Scott and published on Italy Travel Notes - Naples, Napoli in Italian, is the third most-populated city in Italy and the biggest city in Southern Italy. Its close proximity to many interesting sites, such as Pompeii and the Bay of Naples, makes it a good base.
Source: short story by Richard Davies.
how far would an artist go to create a masterpiece?
Source: short story -richard davies
Tale of horror from Victorian England. An artist might do anything to create a masterpiece.
Source: My European Vacations
Situated in the southern part of Italy, between two volcanic areas, Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei, Naples is unofficially called the capital of the south and for good reason.
Source: BBC News
Residents of the Italian city of Naples have been torching piles of rotting rubbish in the steets amid a worsening refuse crisis. Most of the area's landfill sites are full, meaning that rubbish collectors have not been doing their rounds.
Source: ansa.it
CASERTA (ANSA) - Train services between Rome and Naples were severely disrupted on Wednesday by protesting buffalo breeders, who have been ordered to slaughter more than a third of their mozzarella-milk-producing cattle in a health scare.
Source: ansa.it
A new train service will whisk tourists to the top of Vesuvius more than 50 years after the famous funicular railway closed down. The funicular, a Naples landmark that inspired the famous song Funiculi', funicala' was shut down after irreparable damage in a 1944 earthquake.
Source: ansa.it
Eight Serie A match officials are expected to face criminal charges after prosecutors wrapped up the Naples end of the Calciopoli match-fixing probe Thursday.
Source: PhysOrg.com
Researchers at Italy's Geophysical National Institute and Volcanology Observatory report the volcanic area, which had its last eruption in 1538, started a new uplift episode in November 2004. That uplift began at a low rate but has slowly and steadily increased.
Source: Reuters
Mario Scaramella, the Italian contact of the dead former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, was arrested on Sunday in connection with an investigation into arms trafficking, a judicial source said.
Source: Discovery.com
The mountains of garbage that often fill the streets in the Italian city of Naples and surrounding areas aren't just a modern-day problem, suggest ancient wall inscriptions.
Source: BBC News
The Italian justice minister, Clemente Mastella, says he is considering sending the army into Naples to deal with an upsurge of violent crime. "Before this was a taboo for me, but now I am open to discussing it," said Mr Mastella.
Source: Local 6
Fla. Bus Driver Gets Life For Sex With Student
Source: FOXNews.com
From the article: Police arrested 40 people in cities throughout Italy in raids on Muslim gathering places in a security crackdown after Britain thwarted an alleged terror plot, the Interior Ministry said Friday, as Pakistani intelligence agents claimed there was an Al Qaeda conn …
Source: BBC News
The tourist, Matthew Godfrey, 25, from Utah, was attacked, after trying to pursue two men who stole his camera and fled on a scooter. Instead of helping him, a group of bystanders punched and kicked him, allowing the muggers to escape.