Italy
Italy banks seen matching earlier ECB tender uptake
* Italy banks took nearly a quarter of total funds in Dec
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CORRECTED-Italy consumer morale rises more than expected to 94.2
(Corrects headline to remove reference to morale diving)
UPDATE 1-Snam, Fluxys buy Eni assets to build gas network
* Eni selling non-core assets (Adds detail, background, shares)
Fondiaria battle heats up as funds table offer
* Axa eyeing assets from Fondiaria-Unipol tie-up - sources
AXA looking to buy Fondiaria assets-source
* Axa eyeing assets from Fondiaria-Unipol tie-up - sources
Cashmere maker Cucinelli eyes IPO in early May
MILAN - Cashmere maker Brunello Cucinelli aims to float on the Milan stock exchange by early May, in what would be the third share offering of an Italian luxury company in less than a year.
Rome expands cruise ship probe as bodies found
FLORENCE, Italy - Italian prosecutors placed four ship's officers and three company executives under investigation Wednesday in connection with the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster as divers found eight more bodies on the wreck including that of a 5-year-old girl.
UPDATE 2-Rome expands cruise ship probe as bodies found
* Prosecutors add 7 employees of ship's operator to probe (Adds details on investigation, updates total of bodies found)
Flyhalf Botes among four Italy changes
- Flyhalf Tobias Botes will make his first Italy start in Saturday's Six Nations championship clash with Ireland in Dublin after coach Jacques Brunel made four changes from the team who lost to England.
UPDATE 1-Fresh writedowns hit Mediobanca in Q2
MILAN, Feb 22 - Net profit at Italian investment bank Mediobanca shrank to 6.6 million euros in the second quarter, hit by fresh writedowns on Greek bonds and Italian assets during the most acute phase of the euro zone crisis.
Assad forces renew barrage on Syria's Homs
AMMAN/BEIRUT - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces bombarded opposition Sunni Muslim districts in the city of Homs for the 20th day on Thursday, activists said, despite international outrage over the reported killing of more than 80 people on Wednesday. | Video
Greeks on the street
Greeks smashing windows and setting fire to shops and banks in a fury of opposition to yet more austerity is gripping, but not unique. There are underlying elements than make such uprisings more common in Greece than elsewhere.
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