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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Agriflu for people ages 18 years and older to prevent disease caused by influenza virus subtypes A and B. Agriflu is not intended to protect against the 2009 H1N1 influenza.

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Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei s corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said on Friday.

Researchers are invited to contribute their abstracts to the World Congress on Osteoporosis 2010 , the largest global meeting devoted to all aspects of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis research and patient care.

Five people were killed in a plane crash near Pisa airport in northwestern Italy, the country's air force said on Monday.

A jar containing two of Galileo's missing fingers has been located. The jar containing the digits has been missing for more than a century.

Barbie, the iconic children's doll, is dressed in a traditional head-to-toe burka in her latest incarnation.

Florence, Italy And Seville, Spain - GE Oil & Gas' advanced steam turbine technology has won CSP Today's Best Applied Research and Development Award for innovation in concentrated solar power .

One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover - wearing a burkha.

Submitted Article The photo exhibit of Lucca and northern Italy currently on display at the Lyon County Courthouse Annex will be ending soon.

OBESE Michael Williment is having a specially designed council bungalow built for him to house his 39st.

An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum announced on Friday.

Rudy Guede, 22, was jailed for 30 years for knifing and sexually assaulting the 21-year-old victim at her home in Perugia, Italy, in 2007.

An Italian art expert says evidence suggests Leonardo da Vinci once painted a nude version of his famous Mona Lisa .

The historic Biblioteca Ambrosiana on Tuesday unveiled 280 drawings by such masters as Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci collected by a 17th-century friar that have just returned from a Florence studio where they were restored for years.

It was also home to a young assassin named Ezio, whose arsenal includes a hidden blade, repaired by Leonardo, that he'll use to avenge the deaths of his father and brothers.

Siena, Italy a ' In 1976, I was but a strip of a lad in the final year of my motor-vehicle apprenticeship.

A Marist college student has died after falling from a steep flight of stairs leading to an ancient church in Rome, Italy.

"Assassin's Creed 2," a new videogame from Ubisoft, hits stores on Tuesday in a hotly anticipated swirl of treachery, swordplay, history, and artistry set in scenic Renaissance Italy.