Italy's Monti faces confidence vote on austerity

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government faces a confidence vote in parliament on Friday, a move to speed up approval of a 33-billion euro (27.7 billion pound) austerity package intended to restore market confidence in the euro zone's third largest economy. Mario Monti's government of unelected technocrats has an overwhelming majority in both houses of parliament and the vote, to be held in the Chamber of Deputies in the afternoon, should pass easily. ...