Aosta, Italy - Two people were killed and several injured Tuesday when a bus carrying fans of Italian football club Juventus crashed in Italy's north-western Alpine region, police said.

Rescuers had to cut through the vehicle's twisted wreckage to release the bodies of the victims, while ambulances took an unspecified number of injured to a hospital in nearby Aosta, Carabinieri police officer, Vincenzo Puzzo, told television news channel, SKY TG24.

Puzzo said the fans were travelling from Neuchatel, Switzerland to Turin where Juventus was to host Real Madrid in a European Champions League match later Tuesday.

Rome  - A German posing as an estate agent has been arrested for trying to sell the US embassy in Rome, Italian media reports said Saturday.

The 57-year-old man is also believed to have offered the building that houses the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome for sale to a German businessman, the reports said.

The man was already being sought under a European warrant by German authorities for serious fraud and falsified identification papers.

Luebeck, Germany - In a fresh case of spooked airline passengers petitioning an airline to step up safety, Ryanair faced a customer revolt this week on an Italy-bound flight, a German airport said Thursday.

Passengers demanded Ryanair arrange a full technical check of the Boeing 737 which was grounded before a flight Wednesday from Luebeck, Germany to Pisa, Italy.

Luebeck Airport said a technician had already been flying to the airport with a spare part when some of the 176 passengers began rounding up signatures.

Rome - Italian police arrested Thursday the boss of a mafia family which, with another criminal clan, is involved in a long-standing, bloody feud, including the so-called 2007 "Duisburg Massacre" in Germany, officials said.

The 46-year-old Antonio Pelle was captured in what police described as a specially-built underground bunker hideout on a farm near the southern town of Locri in the Calabria region.

Pelle, the head of the Pelle-Vottari family of the 'Ndrangheta, the Calabrian mafia, had been on the run since August 2007 in the aftermath of the killing that month of six Italians outside a restaurant in Duisburg.

Rome, Oct 16: Archaeologists, in Italy, have found the tomb of an ancient Roman aristocrat, who is believed to have inspired Russell Crowe’s character in the hit film Gladiator.

According to the news agency ANSA, the name of the ancient patrician was Marcus Nonius Macrinus, a proconsul who achieved major victories for Marcus Aurelius, emperor from 161 AD to his death in 180 AD.

Macrinus, a favourite of the emperor, is thought to have prompted the writers of the Ridley Scott film to imagine their “general who became a slave, slave who became a gladiator, gladiator who defied an emperor,” as the tag line to the 2000 epic said.

Russell Crowe won an Oscar in the title role of the Roman noble.

Rome - Climate change poses a health threat in Europe and central Asia, especially among the poor, experts from the United Nations and the European Union's food safety watchdog said Tuesday.

The warning came in a statement from a seminar in Rome on the health effects of climate change on food, water safety and nutrition.