'Antibiotics are used far more in some countries than in others, a survey by the World Health Organization showed on Monday, suggesting that urgent action was needed to slash unnecessary consumption of the medicines.'

'Deputy Chief Minister, Dr Joseph Garcia, launched Professor John Hattendorf’s book, ‘Putting cargoes through: The US Navy at Gibraltar during the First World War 1917-1919’ at the John Mackintosh Hall last Friday.'

'The Chief Minister will lead a Gibraltar delegation to London this week for high-level talks with UK ministers on Brexit, against the backdrop of reports that the UK and the EU are poised to seal a deal on withdrawal and transitional arrangements.'

'Turkey pulled out of Libya crisis talks on Tuesday in Italy's Palermo province due to its exclusion from a meeting of key players on the conference sidelines.'

'Brexit negotiations have gripped the eurozone over the last few months as the UK and Brussels struggle to reach an agreement, with traders keeping an eye on what leaving the EU means for their money.'

'Federico Bernardeschi has picked up an abductor injury and is set to return to Turin from Florence where he had been training with Italy national team.'

'A major trio of Lakes—Como, Garda and Iseo—cluster around the city of Milan and Italy’s Northern Veneto region. They are home to rich Milan residents’ country homes, Southern Germans' second houses and a wonderful space and place to spend some time if you have a quick trip planned to Milan or Verona.'

'Another eurozone sovereign debt crisis is inevitable unless the confrontational approach of the European Commission to Italy’s debt problem gives way to greater co-operation.'

'When Angelo Ogbonna joined West Ham for €11m in the summer of 2015, the Italian centre-back had little way of telling that the following year would mark his last international appearance for nearly another three years at a minimum. Ogbonna last played for Italy in 2016, being a part of the squad for Euro 2016 and playing just once, in a 1-0 group stage defeat to Ireland.'

'The centre-back has been capped 13 times by his country, but hasn’t made an appearance since 2016.'

'In Nine, the curious musical in which Daniel Day-Lewis (convincingly) pretends to be Italian, his director-in-crisis character eventually flees from Rome to Anguillara Sabazia.'

'One of the bestselling books in Italy right now is a novel based on the life of Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator who invented fascism. “M” by Antonio Scurati aims to be the first in a trilogy. '

'Italian diplomats have scrambled to inject momentum into a high-profile summit on the future of Libya which has opened in disarray.'

'Italy’s desperate need for a financial shot in the arm is palpable at all levels of the economy, from the entrepreneurs in the industrial north who are hungry for tax breaks and a streamlined bureaucracy to the welfare seekers in the poverty-stricken south, with its dizzying levels of youth unemployment.'

'The coalition had been given time to change its 2019 plans but insists an anti-austerity approach will help kickstart growth in the eurozone's third largest economy, and consequently reduce the public debt and deficit.'

'Riccardo Bernardini, 24, suffered head injuries after being set upon following a match between Virtus Olympia and Atletico Terranova in the Promozione league – the sixth tier of the Italian league system – which ended with two red cards and a goal in stoppage time.'

'The Italian government is expected to snub a request to present a revised draft budget for 2019 to the European commission, as it defiantly pursues its big-spending strategy.'

'Illegal finch trapping has made a huge comeback since the government opened the legal trapping season for Song Thrush and Golden Plover last October, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) said today.'

'Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has vowed to take cryptocurrencies “out of the wild wild west” in a pitch for his country’s raft of laws for Blockchain technology and digital currencies.'

'Spain’s maritime rescue services and the Civil Guard rescued 258 people from the coast of Andalusia, in the south of the country, this weekend. The rescued migrants were taken to different cities in the southern region: 139 were transferred to the ports of Málaga, 41 and Almería and 15 to Vélez-Málaga.'

'Remembrance Sunday coincided with Armistice Day, exactly 100 years after the end of World War One. Some 9.7 million soldiers and 10 million civilians died from 1914 to 1918.'