The Bank of Italy has suspended all bank card payments in the Vatican including for tickets to its famous museum until further notice because of a failure to fully implement anti money laundering legislation, Italian media reported on Thursday. The payments have been suspended since January 1 after the Bank…
Tipped off by the strong smell wafting into a suburban street, police in Rome have discovered a massive underground marijuana plantation in a disused railway tunnel built by Mussolini. Police seized 340kg of marijuana – with a street value of €3m (£2.36m) – from the plantation, which was lit by…