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Italian police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani father and son who allegedly spent just over $200 to set up a reliable and untraceable phone network that was used by the militants who carried out last year's terror attacks in Mumbai, India. Complete Story...
Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.
Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. said Thursday it will temporarily idle production at its two smelters in Italy, affecting about 2,000 workers, after a decision by the European Union left the company's ability to secure electricity for the plants at low rates uncertain.
A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery.
The Dalai Lama said Wednesday there will be a setback in the Tibetan cause when he dies, but that he has faith in the next generation of his followers.
Prosecutors on Saturday requested life in prison for an American student and her ex-boyfriend accused in the fatal stabbing of her British roommate during a drug-fueled sex game — charges the U.S. woman dismissed as "pure fantasy."
The historic Biblioteca Ambrosiana on Tuesday unveiled 280 drawings by such masters as Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci collected by a 17th-century friar that have just returned from a Florence studio where they were restored for years.
Benito Mussolini was a fierce anti-Semite, who proudly said that his hatred for Jews preceded Adolf Hitler's and vowed to "destroy them all," according to previously unpublished diaries by the Fascist dictator's longtime mistress.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi hosted a soiree in Rome for some 200 young Italian women, but instead of the party they expected the women were given a lecture on Islam and copies of the Quran, a news report said Monday.
The trial of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on a tax fraud charge reopened Monday after a year, but was immediately adjourned until January to allow the premier to attend.
Police captured one of Sicily's top Mafia fugitives on Sunday, dealing a stiff blow to the island's Cosa Nostra crime syndicate, Italian officials said.
A dozen gondolas snaked down the Grand Canal on Saturday in a mock funeral procession bemoaning Venice's approach to the dreaded status of living museum, with a population now below 60,000.
Italy is opening its first national museum for contemporary arts and architecture in a bid to shed its image as merely a keeper of a glorious artistic past.
In a decade-long journey, the Tunisian went from drug pusher on the streets of Milan, to Islamic militant trained in Afghanistan to kill Americans, to potential key witness against Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Italy's top security official said Thursday that authorities have smashed an international terror cell with the arrest in Italy and elsewhere in Europe of 17 Algerians who were raising money to finance terrorism.
The Italian Olympic Committee has rejected a bid by Bari for the 2020 Summer Games.
An Italian company that helped build a communications satellite for Iran said Wednesday there are no plans to launch it, denying an announcement made in Tehran this week.
Pope Benedict XVI sings and prays along to a mix of modern music and ancient church chants in a new album presented Tuesday before its release at the end of the month.
Intesa Sanpaolo SpA, Italy's second-largest bank, announced Tuesday it would resume dividend payments after reporting flat third-quarter earnings.
Italy's parliament was considering a controversial bill Thursday that would limit the length of trials, with critics saying it was drafted to help Premier Silvio Berlusconi with his legal problems.
Italy on Sunday hailed the capture of a wig-disguised mobster who had been on the list of the country's top 30 fugitives.
The United States expressed disappointment over an Italian court's conviction of 23 Americans in absentia of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street.
An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program.
The Vatican on Tuesday denounced a ruling by the European court of human rights that said the display of crucifixes in Italian public schools violates religious and education freedoms.
Italian news reports say Premier Silvio Berlusconi is seeking to postpone the resumption of his fraud trial in Milan.
Mumbai attack suspects arrested by Italian policeItalian police have arrested two Pakistanis suspected of providing logistical support for last year's attacks in Mumbai.
Camminare nelle Dolomiti Italiane This fall we had a wonderful vacation in Italy. Among other fun adventures, we spent a week hiking in the Dolomite mountains north of Venice.
Chocolate wars: now the ambassador's favourite and a US giant eye CadburyItalian firm Ferrero and the US giant Hershey have been linked to a new bid for British chocolate maker Cadbury
Immigrants to get 100,000 kroner incentive to leave DenmarkThe Danish People's Party (DF) has strengthened its immigration stance by securing an agreement to pay 'anti-social' foreigners 100,000 kroner to leave Denmark.
Heavy metal monk hangs up his micItaly's "Brother Metal", a 63-year-old monk who became famous for singing in a heavy metal band - habit and all - is leaving the limelight, saying the devil made him too much of a celebrity for his own good.
Our Debt to ItalyThe United States of America owes much of the hope it has right now of remaining what John Adams called "a nation of laws, not men" to Italian law enforcement.
Expunging Christ: The Crucifix and the NationThe principle of the European Union's court to override Italy's constitution and laws is a disturbing sign for us here in the USA. There is a powerful lesson in precedent concerning what a nation is and how the Bible treats the nation's place in our lives.
114 countries voted for the UN General Assembly Resolution on the Richard Goldstone Report on Gaza, 18 voted against, 44 abstained, and 16 were absent.
We "broke the law," admits CIA agent convicted of renditionOne of the Americans convicted in absentia by an Italian court for her part in the 2003 abduction of a Muslim cleric by CIA operatives has acknowledged they "broke the law" and complained she was given insufficient protection by her superiors in Washington.
Berlusconi says crucifix ruling denies Europe's rootsSecularism run amuck. Italians don't have the same separation of Church and State that we have in the United States. There other people are imposing a minority view point on everyone.
Dutch 'among lowest cannabis users'THE Dutch are among the lowest users of marijuana or cannabis in Europe despite the Netherlands' well-known tolerance of the drug, according to a regional study.
Italian Judge Convicts 23 Americans in Renditions CaseThis decision is symbolic; I doubt any penalties will be paid, nor that any prison sentences will be served.
C.I.A. Rendition Trial Nears VerdictMILAN — A verdict is expected as soon as Wednesday in a landmark case in which 26 American officials are charged with kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan more than six years ago.
Inside Leonardo's Notebook World-famous as a capital of fashion and design, Italy's second city has a more modest reputation for cultural heritage. Here in the country's business and financial center, local pride focuses on contemporary success rather than past glory.
Italy raid nets two mafia bosses Italian police say they have arrested two more suspected mafia bosses, a day after seizing their brother in a raid near the southern city of Naples. They say Pasquale and Carmine Russo were detained in Sperone, some 30km (20 miles) east of Naples.
Italian paparazzo Fabrizio Corona charged over blackmail photosIt is a tangled tale of sex, greed, ambition and blackmail in Silvio Berlusconi's celebrity-obsessed Italy.
Napoleon's Dynamite - Or Why The President should 'dither'PARIS — He's in there somewhere, under the gilded dome of Les Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. The Emperor of the French, Napoleon Bonaparte, is entombed by six coffins in what has to be the most spectacular sarcophagus in all the City of Light.
Swine flu in some italian mayorsThere is a strange virus that affects some time Italian mayors, after that of...
Renditions Case: Milan Trial Could Expose Italian Role in CIA Kidnapping - A public prosecutor in Milan has completed a five-year investigation into the CIA and their Italian counterparts. The case of the extraordinary renditions kidnapping of Egyptian suspected terrorist Abu Omar is also a test of judicial independence in Italy.
Italian Left in turmoil after governor quits because of transsexual prostitute blackmail caseItaly's main opposition party was in turmoil yesterday as its supporters voted in a primary to select a new leader after one of its high profile politicians was forced to step down because of a video apparently showing him with a transsexual prostitute.
The Bomber Next Door: Who Is Behind Him? Mohammed Game, the Libyan alleged "lone wolf" suicide bomber who attempted to blow himself up at the military barracks in Milan on October the 12th, is now in a coma and cannot be questioned by the Italian authorities. In the meantime, his two partners were arrested.
NATO cool to adding troops in AfghanistanItalian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa told the newspaper Corriere della Sera he agreed with the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who requested tens of thousands more troops and beefed-up training of Afghan forces.
BBC NEWS | Europe | Rebuilding an education in quake-hit L'AquilaThe earthquake that struck L'Aquila last April destroyed many of the city's schools. For the last in our series Hunger to Learn, Duncan Kennedy has visited the Italian city to hear why pupils there no longer take education for granted.
Italy denies paying Taliban to keep peace in Afghan areaROME - Italy and NATO yesterday denied a newspaper report that Italian intelligence secretly paid the Taliban thousands of dollars to keep the peace in an Afghan area under Italian control.
Rival coffin-makers fight to the death over who invented idea of scantily clad models in casket calendarItalian makers Cofanifunebri launched a raunchy calender this month claiming to be the first in the world with the dust to bust idea. But Polish casket experts Lindner have branded them grave robbers and say them came up with the calender idea years ago.
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