DNA tests have confirmed that a body found by the Italian authorities is that of missing Limerick pensioner Mairead Geary.

FEARS for the wellbeing of an elderly Limerick widow increased last night at an Italian lake resort where she has been missing since last Friday.

Police in northern Italy are continuing to search for an elderly Irish woman who has been missing since last Friday.

MICHAEL Lowry’s accountant, Denis O’Connor, flatly denied he knew anything when the Moriarty Tribunal queried him about a British property dispute in which he played a significant role, it emerged yesterday.

A gunman hiding in his family’s home in a small town in northern Italy sprayed gunfire on passing cars and police, killing at least three people, including an officer, the Carabinieri paramilitary police said.

The heir to the Agnelli dynasty, John Elkann, married today in an intimate ceremony on an Italian island followed by a sumptuous reception.

A mudslide set off by heavy rain caused injuries and damaged parts of Schlans, a village in eastern Switzerland, police said. It appeared by evening that there were no fatalities.

The stolen body of the man who was Italy’s most powerful banker was found in a hayloft a few hours after the arrest of a steelworker trying to collect a multi-million pound ransom from bank officials.

Investigators are looking into a ransom demand for the body of Italy’s most powerful banker, which was stolen from the family tomb last week, newspapers said today.