London, Jul 4 : Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has been going through a divorce, has decided to solve the problem of not having a First Lady to play host to other leaders' spouses by appointing a former topless model to play the...

New Delhi, July 4 : The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has picked three children to represent India at the J8 summit, a confluence of young people from countries participating in the G8 summit....

AC Milan are targeting Real Madrid striker Klaas Jan Huntelaar and Sevilla's Luis Fabiano, chief executive Adriano Galliani told reporters late on...

ROME: A strong tremor struck L'Aquila, the Italian town that will host next week's G8 summit of world leaders, on Friday, shaking buildings, setting off car alarms and startling residents who lived...

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will have an audience with the Pope next week when he travels to Europe to take part in crucial talks on climate change. Mr Rudd will leave on Monday for the six-day trip...

ROME — A restaurant in Rome which presented a Japanese tourist with a bill for 695 euros (nearly 100,000 yen) after a meal with his fiancee has been closed down by the authorities, Il...

The Civil Protection said about a dozen of the injured remained in serious condition. A train carrying liquefied gas derailed around midnight Monday in the seaside town of Viareggio, setting off a...

Investigations by the Vatican into whether the lives American nuns are leading are too modern have been met with trepidation by some of those under scrutiny. Photo / Jim...

Zenit.org ).- A former director of Vatican Radio, Jesuit Father Pasquale Borgomeo, died Thursday in Rome after a long illness. He was 76.Father Borgomeo was with Vatican Radio for 35 years, and died...

Italy's parliament has passed a law that criminalises illegal immigration and allows citizen patrols to help the police keep order. More than 36,000 migrants landed on the shores of Italy last year...

On a clear day you can see right down the length of Italy to the boot tip from the balcony of the Santa Caterina. The hotel hugs a cliff just outside the ravishing Mediterranean resort town of...

Silvio Berlusconi’s domestic troubles have caused a serious headache for planners of next week’s G8 summit. Normally the wife of the Prime Minister would be the host for a series of...

Italy's center-right coalition adopted a tough law against illegal immigration Thursday despite fierce criticism from the opposition, rights groups and the Vatican. The law makes illegal immigration...

Munich - The axle of a railway tanker car which broke and set off a lethal fireball this week in an Italian coastal town was German-made, a news magazine said Friday in Munich. Focus quoted Alberto...

Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani remains unconcerned about his club's failure to sign a new striker, arguing that the club has plenty of time to find the right...

The Vatican newspaper Friday praised influential French Protestant John Calvin, a critic of the Roman Catholic Church, hailing him an "extraordinary" figure. The Osservatore Romano, on the 500th...

ANOTHER earthquake shook the Italian town of L'Aquila today, days before a summit of the G8 is to open there, civil defence authorities...

ROME, July 3 (RIA Novosti) - Italy's council of ministers approved imposing a state of emergency on Friday in the Italian town of Viareggio hit by a powerful gas blast late on Monday. The state of...

The first Milan derby of the season will take place in Boston in the United States where Inter Milan and AC Milan will play a friendly on July 26. ROME (AFP) - The first Milan derby of the season...

Berlusconi is 100% correct. . I still think that the media contributed significantly to the current economic challenges. It's true the wizards of wall street contributed but the media put the fear...

MILAN (Reuters) - Treasure Hunting will go fully digital on Friday night when players chase a mysterious oriental wand with special powers along the narrow streets and bridges of...

MOSCOW, July 3 (RIA Novosti) - The G8 summit in Italy next week will involve some 30 countries and focus on the global financial crisis, tackling terrorism, climate change and regional security, a...

Posted on: Friday, 3 July 2009, 07:45 CDT A Vatican official said on Thursday that the Catholic Church should not fear scientific progress and risk repeating the errors it made in condemning...

Italy that no break-in was staged in the apartment where a Briton was slain in 2007. The testimony casts doubt on a key prosecution argument. Prosecutors say Amanda Knox and co-defendant Raffaele...

L'Aquila, Italy - Several tremors on Friday prompted frightened office workers to rush outdoors in the central Italian city L'Aquila, just days before it is scheduled to host a Group of Eight (G8)...

-(Dow Jones)- Chinese President Hu Jintao will sign a string of agreements Monday with his Italian counterpart about fostering cooperation in areas including high-technology, agribusiness, and...

-- The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize - a previously unknown self-portrait of the...

Rome, July 3 : The toll in the gas explosion at a railroad station in northern Italy rose to 20 after two people injured in the accident died at a hospital, a health spokesman said...

Rome - Italian anti-terrorist police arrested two alleged anarchists early on Friday as they were about to sabotage a railway line in the north-east of the country, a spokesperson said. The...

A necklace and a pair of earrings from the Clouds range. ITALIANS have a reputation for being a very passionate people. They are full of spirit and seem to have no qualms displaying their passion to...

ROME: Tough new measures to fight illegal immigration and crime became law in Italy yesterday after the Senate gave the green light to a bill contested by the center-left opposition and the Catholic...

An electric cable is attached to the side of a car. Renault-Nissan will hold large-scale tests for its new electric cars in the Paris and Milan regions next year ahead of planned mass production from...

VERNON, N.J. — A northwestern New Jersey man said he was mugged in his driveway by a sandwich-craving bear. Henry Rouwendal said he was packing his car last Friday when he was hit from behind...

Zenit.org ).- A new edition of the investigations into the Galileo case has been released by the Vatican Secret Archives.The volume, "I ducomenti vaticani del processo di Galileo Galilei”...

The new results, which rely on hospitalization databases that track major breast surgeries rather than official estimations computed using statistical models, appear in The Journal of Experimental...

Fulham have signalled that they would be ready to match Peter Crouch's £70,000-a-week wages but there is also interest in the Portsmouth forward from Milan in Serie A. The England striker is...

The Catholic Church should not fear scientific progress and possibly repeat the mistake it made when it condemned astronomer Galileo in the 17th century, a Vatican official said in a rare ...

Italy has unveiled 14 artifacts, including a bronze statue of an archer and a pair of Etruscan silver bracelets, returned by the Cleveland Museum of Art after it was discovered they had once been...

Vote VATICAN CITY (AP) — The restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel may have produced a special prize — a previously unknown self-portrait of the...

ROME - Italian authorities have shut down a historic Roman restaurant days after it charged a Japanese couple nearly 700 euros ($987.70) for a seafood lunch to become an unwitting symbol of tourist...

Silvio Berlusconi is steeped in a new scandal over a dinner he had at the home of a constitutional court judge who will rule on whether to grant him immunity from prosecution while in...

The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are the targets of a doctrinal...

The host of the G8 summit, Silvio Berlusconi, faces many lurid scandals at home. But the biggest should be his refusal to accept the extent of Italy’s economic...

Blank Rome became the latest large Philadelphia law firm to slash associate salaries late Wednesday. Effective July 17, entry-level associates in Philadelphia and Princeton, N.J., will have their...

ROME » They were looking for a bit of La Dolce Vita but what two Japanese tourists got in a restaurant in Rome left a bad taste in their mouths. The couple was handed a euro695 ($980)...

Rome - Italian lawmakers on Thursday gave final approval to controversial legislation that makes illegal immigration a punishable offence and allows mayors to form civilian anti-crime patrols in...

Vote When soccer clubs Chelsea and AC Milan come to Baltimore this month as part of the World Football Challenge, they'll be playing soccer...

Berlin - German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged Thursday to help the Italian village of Onna recover from a devastating earthquake three months ago. Germany will pay for the reconstruction of the...

KABUL, 2 July 2009 (IRIN) - An Italian NGO called Emergency, which runs three hospitals and 28 healthcare centres for war victims in Afghanistan, is planning to cut back its activities due to...

MILAN - The Italian public deficit jumped to 9.3 percent of output in the first quarter of the year, the highest level for at least 10 years, official data showed on...