Fiat factory workers in Italy can think of a few things they’d rather see their owner spend $130 million on than Cristiano Ronaldo.

Italy will commit as much as 17 billion euros ($19 billion) to clean up two failed banks in one of its wealthiest regions, the nation’s biggest rescue on record.

Two powerful earthquakes Wednesday struck central Italy about 50 miles north of the site of a deadly August quake that killed nearly 300 people, the US Geological Survey said.

Nandanee Soornack dissimule avec peine son contentement. La demande du gouvernement mauricien pour son extradition d’Italie parce qu’elle est soupçonnée de blanchiment et d’entente délictueuse ayant été rejetée par la Cour d’appel de Bologne jeudi, l’amie de l’ex-Premier ministre Navin Ramgoolam se laisse enfin aller à des confidences.

At least 73 people were reported killed and dozens more were missing or feared dead Wednesday after a magnitude-6.2 earthquake and a series of aftershocks struck several towns in central Italy, toppling scores of buildings, according to Italy’s civil protection agency.