Vivian Spohr, wife of Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr, has left Italy and flown back to Germany after a hit-and-run case

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Farmers in Italy's northeastern Po Delta region are battling an unusual pest: flamingos. These birds have been invading rice paddies and damaging crops while searching for food like mollusks and insects.

An Italian court has upheld in part an appeal by UniCredit against the conditions the government has imposed to clear the bank's $16 billion bid for rival Banco BPM , the court's ruling published on Saturday showed.

Flamingos have settled into the rice fields of Ferrara, a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, threatening the signature Italian dish of risotto.

A US citizen charged with the murder of an infant girl and her mother in Rome was extradited to Italy from Greece on Friday morning.

Italy said on Thursday that firms that have helped Russia fund its war on Ukraine by doing business with the country should be excluded from profiting from Ukraine's reconstruction. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said earlier that participants at a Rome conference on the economic recovery of Ukraine had pledged more than 10 billion euros ($11.