Italy - Italy's paramilitary police, the Carabinieri, are no longer allowed to engage in any extramarital affairs following a court ruling by Italy's highest court.

According to Reuters, the ruling was passed after one Carabinieri member was sentenced to four months in jail for insulting and threatening to throw a desk at his boss after he was asked to break off an affair with a married woman.

Even though Italy's Court of Cassation agreed that any affair is a private matter, military police are to display "exemplary conduct" and cannot bring "discredit to the armed forces with extramarital relationships."

Ironically, the Carabinieri's motto is, "Faithful through the centuries".