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Art crime is big business with an estimated $6 billion in losses annually! Here's a list of the FBI's Top 10 art crimes at the moment.. Iraqi Looted and Stolen Artifacts - The significant Statue of Entemena was recovered in 2006 but there are still many pieces missing.

Palermo, Italy is the capital of Sicily making it the perfect tourist destination.

Brittany Sligar, 21, of Shannon, is the manager at the Sterling Cost Cutters in Northland Mall.

Venice, June 10 - Oscar-winning Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore's latest film Baaria will inaugurate this year's Venice Film Festival on September 2, the director said on Wednesday.

PALERMO, Italy, May 27 - Eastern Europe has been a major source of trafficking for sexual labour since the fall of communism.

Students have signed up in their hundreds for Italy's first ever course in Mafia studies, launched last week at Rome University's faculty of Law.

Serious Eats contributor Daniel Zemans checks in with another piece of intel on the Windy City pizza scene.

More than 500 people were evacuated in lifeboats from an Italian ferry on Friday after a fire broke out in the car hold, officials said.

Sarah Goetz and Jessica Cooper, both dancers and teachers at Dance Theatre Fairbanks, got bit by the dancing bug at the age of 3. Now 17 and 25 respectively, they will take a big step in their dance careers when they attend the American Ballet Theatre dance educator program in July.

PALERMO, Italy, May 26 - The condition of victims of forced labour worldwide may be unrecognised because many states and organisations see it only in the light of a fight against prostitution.

PALERMO, Italy, May 25 - A flawed political and economic order that has failed to create effective migration policies is behind the rise of trafficking in persons and the difficulties in tackling it effectively, leading campaigners say.

Cobalt nanostructures have been prepared by a chemical route based on the Co reduction in the confined space of cobalt bis sulfosuccinate 2) reverse micelles dispersed in n-heptane. This procedure involves the rapid formation of surfactant softly coated Co nanostructures followed by a slow separation process of the magnetic-field responsive ...

UNITED NATIONS, May 14 - The U.N. General Assembly discussed ways of taking stronger collective action to end human trafficking on Wednesday, with delegates debating the need for and form of a "global plan of action" to end this form of modern slavery.

Putting confiscated Mafia property to good use, the Italian government is re-allocating property once owned by the Mafia in Palermo Italy into use by producing pasta, olive oil, wine, honey and other products, which are sold at the Coop supermarkets.

High serum ferritin, being a hallmark of hereditary hemochromatosis , is frequently found in chronic hepatitis C, alcoholic or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients .

The economic downturn in Italy has brought an increase in opportunities for organised crime, particularly in construction ) Good times or bad times, it is business as usual for Italy's mafia .

WINE, OLIVE oil, pasta, tomato sauce: for any food lover, organic produce ripened under the Sicilian sun is a guarantee of quality in itself.

Is it or isn't it a Michelangelo? That is the question being pondered by art experts after the Italian state spent 3.3 million euros, or $4.2 million, last year to buy a small wooden crucifix attributed to that Renaissance genius.

The Holy Father accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Suwon, Korea, presented by Bishop Paul Choi Deok-ki, in accordance with canon 401 para.

SALISBURY -- Joseph Bellia, 82, of Salisbury died Tuesday, March 24, 2009, at Peninsula Regional Medical Center.