NEW YORK - Fitch Ratings Friday downgraded the sovereign credit ratings of five euro currency countries - Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Belgium and Cyprus, contending they lack financing flexibility in the...

The owner of Costa Concordia has offered a flat 14,460 dollars in compensation to all uninjured survivors aboard its cruise ship that ran aground off the Italian coast two weeks ago.

The deal...

The Vatican has loaned to Cuba "as a great exception" and for one year an artefact considered the most ancient example of indigenous Christian art in the New World, having once belonged to the...

Italy must do more to protect women from violence and urgently address the underlying structural causes of gender inequality and discrimination, an independent United Nations human rights expert...

Passengers on the wrecked Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia will receive a compensation lump sum of 11,000 euros (around $14,000) each, the Italian Association of Tour Operators said in a statement...

A South American man working on the cruise ship that crashed earlier this month off the coast of Italy is seeking class action status for a federal lawsuit filed Thursday in Chicago against the...

Italian ship operator Costa Crociere SpA on Friday put the figure at $14,460 plus reimbursement for the cost of cruise tickets and extra travel expenses, seeking to cut a deal with as many uninjured...

The 30-th international tournament on Greco-Roman style wrestling dedicated to the memory of Vehbi Emre will be held on January 28 through 29, 2012 in Istanbul city of Turkey. It is of the nature...

AFP PHOTO / VINCENZO PINTO The cruise liner Costa Concordia aground in front of the harbour of the Isola del Giglio (Giglio island) after hitting underwater rocks on January 13. Italian rescuers...

The Vatican has rewritten its 2010 anti-money laundering law after European inspectors found that it did not fully meet their tough standards to combat the financing of terrorism.The new law requires...

VATICAN CITY -; The Vatican has rewritten its 2010 anti-money laundering law after European inspectors found that it didn't fully meet their tough standards to combat the financing of terrorism....

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A senior Vatican official who was transferred after he exposed a web of corruption begged to be allowed to continue his crusade and denounced a "vulgar and...

Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) -- International banks cut their loans to fellow lenders and governments in Italy, France and Spain in the third quarter, hoarding German, Japanese and U.S. bonds instead, data...

YOU could hear the buzz of the tattoo artist at work before you could see him. In a dark warehouse on the outskirts of Milan on Monday evening, black curtains separated the editors from the models in...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fitch downgraded the sovereign credit ratings of Belgium, Cyprus, Italy, Slovenia and Spain on Friday, indicating there was a 1-in-2 chance of further cuts in the next two...

In a statement, the ratings agency said that the affected countries were vulnerable in the near term to monetary and financial shocks. "Consequently, these sovereigns do not, in Fitch’s...

The Vatican has rewritten its 2010 anti-money laundering law after European inspectors found that it didn't fully meet their tough standards to combat the financing of...

GIGLIO, ITALY - Italian coastguards pleaded angrily with the captain of a stricken super-liner to return to his ship, according to recordings released on Tuesday as divers found five more bodies in...

The Vatican Museums broke attendance records in 2011 with just over 5 million people entering its doors."It is, in a particular way, objectively amazing," wrote Antonio Paolucci, Director...

Cardinal Robert Sarah, the head of the Vatican charity Cor Unum, promised to aid relief efforts by the Archdiocese of Lima in Manchay, one of the poorest suburbs of the Peruvian capital."I have...

VATICAN CITY -; The Vatican has rewritten its 2010 anti-money laundering law after European inspectors found that it didn't fully meet their tough standards to combat the financing of...

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Covering 180 miles of Oregon coast travel: Astoria, Seaside, Cannon Beach, Manzanita, Nehalem, Wheeler, Rockaway, Garibaldi, Tillamook, Oceanside, Pacific City, Lincoln City, Depoe Bay, Newport,...

PADDY AGNEW in RomeWas the secretary general so good at his job he made serious Holy See enemies?THIS IS a tale of corruption, dishonesty, poison-pen letters and fetid rivalry in the Holy See. At the...

Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The credit ratings of Italy, Spain and three other euro-area countries were cut by Fitch Ratings, which said the five nations lack financing flexibility in the face of the...

Separate earthquakes shook northern Italy and the Greek island of Crete, officials said. A 5.4-magnitude quake hit northern Italy Friday, the second quake in two days for the region, Italy's...

City criticised Milan for the way they had gone about trying to sign the Argentine striker, while Inter Milan and French Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain both withdrew from the race to sign Tevez...

The cars are lined up in a solid row from the hill of Vomero all the way down to Posillipo, and well into the deep green of the Park of Remembrance. "The girls never wanted to go there,"...

Italy 's six-month funding costs fell sharply on Friday to levels last seen before the country came to the fore of the euro zone debt crisis last summer, helping power a rally in its bonds ahead...

Italy's Monti alongside former PM Silvio Berlusconi - AFP/Getty Images via @daylife Fitch Ratings announced it was downgrading sovereign credit ratings for five European nations: Italy, Spain,...

NEW: 6 plaintiffs sue the cruise company, seeking hundreds of millions of dollars NEW: A lawyer says he represents "hundreds" of others who may make similar claims The lawsuit comes as...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has rewritten its 2010 anti-money laundering law after European inspectors found that it didn't fully meet their tough standards to combat the financing of...

San Francisco Business Times by Patrick Twohy, Senior Editor Date: Friday, January 27, 2012, 1:16pm PST - Last Modified: Friday, January 27, 2012, 4:11pm...

AC Milan CEO Adriano Galliani said the club had pulled out of the race to sign Manchester City striker Carlo Tevez. AC Milan CEO Adriano Galliani said the club had pulled out of the race to sign...

The official Vatican spokesman says an Italian television broadcast claiming to disclose financial corruption at the Vatican exaggerated the situation. Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., questioned the...

VATICAN CITY, 26 JAN 2012 (VIS) - At midday today the Holy See Press Office published a note written by its director, Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J., concerning a television programme, "Gli...