A card-carrying member of Italy’s anti-immigration Northern League has been elected the country’s first black mayor. Sandy Cane, a 47-year-old Italian-American, becomes the mayor of the northern town of Viggiu, near Varese, east of Milan, after winning 30 per cent of votes cast by the town’s 5,000 residents. The translator and hotel director, who has a black American father and an Italian mother,... 

The winner in Italy’s national elections, Silvio Berlusconi, has promised to form a streamlined Cabinet that could get to work quickly to tackle the country’s problems. After his center-right coalition emerged with a large enough majority to govern, the former prime minister said he will select a team of people who know the problems with the machinery of the government. Conservative media...