NAPLES RESIDENTS BURN DOWN GYPSY CAMPS (ANSA) - Naples, May 13 - Residents in a Naples suburb on Wednesday set fire to a series of gypsy camps as anger mounted over the attempted kidnapping of a baby by a Roma gypsy earlier this week. Around 400 gypsies in the neighbourhood east of the city have been forced to flee over the... > Full news story

CIA SNATCH TRIAL ADJOURNED TO MAY 28 (see previous) (ANSA) - Milan, May 14 - A landmark Italian trial into the CIA abduction of a Muslim cleric from Milan in 2003 was adjourned Wednesday until May 28. Bruno Megale, head of the Milan unit of Italy's anti-terrorist Digos police, will on that date testify on the kidnapping of Hassan Mustaf... > Full news story

GIRO: TIRED RIDERS GET SHORTER STAGE (ANSA) - Salerno, May 14 - Giro d'Italia riders, tired and stressed by bad weather and a string of mass falls, have managed to get what would have been the race's longest stage cut short to ease their weary legs. ''By mutual consent with the riders and in view of the complaints of the ... > Full news story

ANIMAL STINK WOMAN RAPPED (ANSA) - Rome, May 14 - Italy's highest court on Wednesday upheld a conviction against a woman adjudged to have allowed her animals to turn her garden into a dung heap. The Cassation Court said the case of the woman and her 30 cats and dogs was covered by Italy's law against noxious e... > Full news story

TUSCANY: REGIONAL EXPERIMENT AGAINST DRUG DEPENDENCE (ANSA) - Florence, May 14 - The largest anti-dependency programme in Europe is beginning in Tuscany. The unprecedented experiment will involve 200 patients to be treated with two promising new drugs, aripiprazole and ropinirole. The leader of the experiment is Pisa's Asl 5, who, al... > Full news story

ROMA IN PENSIONER SEX SCAM (ANSA) - Turin, May 14 - Romanian sex slaves belonging to a Roma gang drugged and robbed northern Italian pensioners after promising them sex, Italian police said Wednesday. Two Roma men were arrested after four Turin pensioners went to the police. The sting is believed to have had... > Full news story

TUSCANY: WINE: FIFTY YEARS OF SORBAIANO (ANSA) - Florence, May 14 - Sorbaiano's 50th birthday brings a change in image. The Montecatini Val di Cecina winery celebrates its anniversary by changing its graphic style for its labels, including Rosso delle Miniere, Sorbaiano Rosso Doc, Pian del Conte, Sorbaiano Bianco Doc, Lucestraia... > Full news story

TEMPORARY WORKERS RISK IMPOTENCE, DOCTOR SAYS (ANSA) - Roma, May 14 - Italian men on temporary job contracts may have to worry about impotence as well as paying the bills, a leading urologist said on Wednesday. Speaking ahead of a national urology conference, Florence Urology Clinic Director Marco Carini said not having a permanen... > Full news story