CABBIES' SCAM CRACKDOWN Rome's largest taxi cooperative is trying to improve the bad name of the city's cabbies, notorious among tourists to one of the world's best loved cities.
A ride from either of Rome's airports to the centre of the Italian capital can cost twice what it should, with drivers often squabbling over the right to carry apparently inexperienced visitors and inventing excuses not to pick up locals.
AUTHOR IS TOPS FOR BAD SEX Jonathan Littell, who won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2006 for his book The Kindly Ones, has picked up another prize for the same work -- the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
Runners-up included literary heavyweights Philip Roth for The Humbling, John Banville for The Infinites and Paul Theroux for A Dead Hand.
