Italy Conflict & Tragedy News

King Umberto 1 of Italy made a trip to Monza on July 28, 1900. That evening he went to a restaurant to eat and was surprised to find that the owner of the restaurant was a virtual double of himself....

A lot of news coverage on Amanda Knox has people questioning just who are our neighbors, the ones we go to church with, the ones we converse with in the supermarkets. If someone as sweet, young, and angelic as her...

Italian tax police seized works by Van Gogh, Picasso, Cezanne, and other giants of art in a crackdown on assets hidden by the disgraced founder of the collapsed dairy company Parmalat. Authorities estimated the 19 masterpieces stashed away in attics...

When Italy's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, returned from the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh on Sunday to Milan and dropped this gem, "I have greetings from someone tan, what's his name? Barack Obama! You will not believe it, but the two...

A proposal from the right-wing Northern League for a referendum banning Islamic minarets in Italy was rejected on Tuesday by allies in the center-right government. Seizing on the vote in Switzerland this weekend, which came out favor of banning the...

Summing up the case on Friday against Knox and her then boyfriend, Italian engineering student Raffael Sollecito, prosecutor Giuliani Mignini depicted the native of Seattle, Washington, as the driving force in a scenario involving two other youths. Knox, now 22,...

Amanda Knox , the U.S. college student charged with killing her housemate, deserves a life sentence, an Italian prosecutor said Saturday. Giuliano Mignini called Knox "narcissistic, aggressive, manipulative and theatrical" in his closing argument to the court in Perugia, The...

As defense lawyers have throughout the entire trial, he cast doubt on DNA evidence prosecutors claim shows Knox's DNA on the handle of the alleged murder weapon. The defense has claimed the knife doesn't match Kercher's wounds or an imprint...

Claude Alvin Simmons, Jr., 54, and Christopher Shun Scott, 39, were convicted in October 1997 for the death of Alfonso Aguilar. Also Online Aguilar, 41, was fatally shot in the chest during a robbery in the 4600 block of Hopkins...