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.

Rome - Italy and Algeria, "both victims of illegal immigration" are to hold a summit to discuss ways to control migratory flows and work closer on curbing terrorism, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Tuesday.

Frattini made the remarks during a joint news conference with his Algerian counterpart, Mourad Medelci, in Rome.

The summit would be held Algiers in the "coming weeks" and would also focus on closer economic ties between the two Mediterranean nations, Frattini said.

Washington- US President George W Bush and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met on Monday vowing to take steps to prevent broader economic fallout caused by the financial crisis and to ensure US and European government continue to cooperate.