Italy News

In this Aug. 12, 2000 file photo, The Holy Shroud, a 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, is shown at the Cathedral of Turin, Italy.

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 again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.

'Brenda', a transsexual prostitute linked to a sex and drugs scandal which brought down the prominent Italian politician Piero Marrazzo, has been found burned to death in her apartment.

'Preliminary assessments for our 11 major banks suggest credit losses of 11 billion euros on the period from January to September.

When the hostess agency put out the call for attractive, well-dressed women, under the age of 35 and over 1.7 metres tall, it was inundated with responses from hundreds of Roman women.

The 200 women who answered a Rome modeling agency's advertisement for tall, attractive party guests thought they would be attending an elegant soiree on Sunday.

A drifter jailed for killing British student Meredith Kercher yesterday claimed he heard her rowing with flatmate Amanda Knox about missing money minutes before she was murdered.

Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt attend the 'Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans' premiere at the Sala Grande during the 66th Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2009 in Venice, Italy.

The absence of leaders from the world's wealthiest states undermined the UN Hunger Summit, reducing it to a "technical" forum, the head of the UN food agency said Wednesday.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ruled out early elections today, rejecting a warning by the Senate speaker that splits in the government threatened its ability to stay in power.

The head of a U.N. food agency expressed regret Wednesday that an anti-hunger summit failed to result in precise promises of funding, and critics said the meeting had only thrown crumbs to the world's 1 billion people without enough to eat.

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2009 file photo, Janet Jackson arrives for the amfAR charity dinner during the fashion week in Milan, Italy.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger attends a meeting of the world's 15 most innovative regions in Milan, Italy, Wednesday, Nov.

Actor Nicolas Cage attends the 'Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans' premiere at the Sala Grande during the 66th Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2009 in Venice, Italy.

Milan , Saturday 14th November: the 2009 World Superbike Championship may be over but this does not mean that the work for Noriyuki Haga and Michel Fabrizio has finished! This week the Ducati Xerox riders have been kept busy with appearances at the 67th edition of the EICMA International Motorcycle Exhibition in Milano.

Chrysler Group LLC, in a step that will help Fiat SpA increase its controlling stake, plans to invest $179 million in the next five years in a Dundee factory to build the Italian company's 4-cylinder, 1.4-liter engines.

Joseph Rago, Chicago area attorney unsuccessfully tried to stop the Scurrilous and Defamatory "Fuggedaboudit: A Little Mobster Comedy" , a play that was staged by the Batavia Middle School "Bada Bing Players", that was written by the Jewish drama and communications teacher, Matthew Myers, and supported by the Jewish Batavia District Superintendent Jack Barshinger.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, blamed for plunging his people into starvation, used his platform as Tuesday's opening speaker at the U.N. anti-hunger summit to decry what he called his neocolonialist foes.

Pope Benedict XVI spoke Monday at a United Nations summit meeting in Rome. Sixty leaders attended the meeting, but apart from Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy there were no leaders from the wealthiest nations.

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.