Italy Conflict & Tragedy News

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...

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...

Rescue teams were on Friday frantically looking for survivors in several towns in the southern Italian province of Messina, Sicily, after mudslides killed at least six people and left 20 others missing following heavy rains. Many others were injured, and...

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,...

The wife and the lawyer who is representing an Egyptian cleric allegedly kidnapped in the northern Italian city of Milan and later tortured in 2003 by the CIA are seeking millions of euros in compensation. Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr's wife...

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...

The late Ted Kennedy was brother to the United States' only Catholic president. He received his first Communion from Pope Pius XII, and was married by the Archbishop of New York. He championed social causes such as civil rights and...

If there is a perfect artist to stir controversy that is Amedeo Modigliani. Just to say, is one of the most forged artists from the 'mockery' of the famous heads. So much so that at the end of June, the...

According to Pope Benedict XVI, his fall and ensuing broken wrist was the will of the Almighty. He stated on Wednesday, "Perhaps the Lord wanted to teach me more patience and humility, give me more time for prayer and meditation,"...