ROME: Italy s highest court dealt a potentially fatal blow to the trial of 26 Americans accused of involvement in the alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect in Milan in 2003.
Siding with the government, the Constitutional Court said (...)
If you are craving a kebab, tandoori chicken or Peking duck you may go hungry in the small Tuscan city of Lucca, which has just barred new ethnic restaurants from opening in its historic medieval center.
Officials say new rules passed last week (...)
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Christmas Midnight Mass early Thursday by sending out an appeal for children who are abused, forced to live on the street or serve as soldiers.
In the splendor of St. Peter s Basilica, Benedict marked (...)
ROME: An art museum in northern Italy said it will continue displaying a sculpture portraying a green frog nailed to a cross that has angered Pope Benedict XVI and local officials.
The board of the foundation of the Museion in the city of Bolzano (...)
ROME: Telecommunications mogul Naguib Sawiris is under investigation for alleged corruption in a probe over the 2005 acquisition of Italian mobile phone operator Wind SpA, Italy's financial police said Thursday.
The probe concerns consultancy (...)
It's a new Da Vinci code, but this time it could be for real.
An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's ''Last Supper,'' raising the possibility that the Renaissance genius (...)
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ROME: A recording of a conversation between two arrested secret agents implicates the head of Italy s military intelligence in the alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan, the lawyer for one of the agents said (...)