Italy Pm Enrico Letta

• New Italy PM Matteo Renzi wins confidence vote, vows 'radical change'

  Prime Minister Matteo Renzi called for a "radical and immediate change" in recession-hit Italy as he outlined his new government's reform agenda before winning a crucial confidence vote in the Senate early on Tuesday.

• Italy's new PM Matteo Renzi faces first parliamentary test

  Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi faces his first test before a fractious national parliament when he goes before the Senate on Monday.

• Italy's Matteo Renzi to be PM nominee after Enrico Letta resigns

  Italian President Giorgio Napolitano began meeting political leaders on Friday after Prime Minister Enrico Letta's resignation, with leftist leader Matteo Renzi virtually certain to win the nomination to succeed him.

• Italy PM apologises for youth brain drain

  Prime Minister Enrico Letta on Sunday issued an apology to the young Italians who have found themselves forced to leave the recession-hit country in the face of record-high youth unemployment.

• Barack Obama congratulates Italy's new prime minister Enrico Letta

  President Barack Obama "warmly" congratulated Italy's Prime Minister Enrico Letta, the White House said on Sunday, with the United States looking forward to working with his new government.

• New Italy Prime Minister to unveil programme for change

  Italy's new Prime Minister Enrico Letta was set to unveil his coalition government's programme on Monday, under the watchful gaze of international markets and European partners.

• Two police officers shot as Italian government sworn in

  Two Italian police officers were shot and wounded on Sunday outside the prime minister's office in Rome just as new premier Enrico Letta's government was being sworn in just a kilometre (mile) away.