In this edition

• Bedbugs Ground a Qantas Dreamliner in Rome, and Puglia Asks About Its Own Season

  A bedbug infestation aboard a Qantas Boeing 787 has put aircraft disinfection and airport pest control back on the agenda for Italy's tourism regions.

  Francesca Lazzari · 520 words

• Storm Alerts Across Southern Italy as an Unusually Warm October Holds

  Southern Italy was placed under storm alerts on Tuesday, with the unsettled pattern expected to give way to warmer, more stable conditions.

  Francesca Lazzari · 430 words

Recent headlines from this bureau

• Storm Alerts Across Southern Italy as an Unusually Warm October Holds
• Bedbugs Ground a Qantas Dreamliner in Rome, and Puglia Asks About Its Own Season
• Sicily's Waterspouts Put Puglia's Storm Season on Notice
• Berlin and Rome Ask Brussels for a Brake on New EU Laws
• Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery as Vatican Confirms Early-Stage Nodule
• Puglia's Housing Squeeze and the Spanish Mirror
• A Piedmont Chemicals Trial, Read From Taranto's Steel Coast
• Waterspouts Strike Western Sicily, and the Adriatic Takes Note

Geography & climate

Hot Mediterranean; dry summers, mild winters.

The long flat heel — olive plains, the Salento, the trulli of the Itria valley, two seas.

Economy & culture

Olive oil and agriculture, tourism, the Taranto steelworks, ports, renewable energy.

Trulli and whitewashed towns, the pizzica, a Greek and Norman past, an Adriatic gateway.