Italian parliament meets to seek way out of election gridlock

ROME (Reuters) - The Italian parliament convened on Friday for the first time since last month's deadlocked election with no sign of a deal to end the stalemate and yield a new government able to tackle reforms in the euro zone's troubled third-largest economy.

The parties have so far failed to find a way out of the impasse created by the election, which left the centre left with a majority in the lower house but without the numbers to control the Senate and form a government.