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Italian police arrested nine people including the president of Italian football club Potenza SC on Monday in a match-fixing investigation.

A transwoman known only as Brenda was found murdered in her burned apartment. Brenda had been filmed having sex with a high-ranking Italian politician; the subsequent scandal ended the politician's career.

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

New book by Patrizia D'Addario adds lesbian dimension to alleged escapades at home of Italian prime minister Patrizia Da TMAddario says in her new book that she met two lesbians at the home of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.

POPE John Paul II regularly whipped himself in a sign of 'remorse for his sins', a nun has disclosed.

A hundred pieces arrived in Mexico as part of the exhibition Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples.

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox reacts prior to the start of a hearing at Perugia's court, Italy, Saturday, Nov.

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By Jacques Van Der Westhuyzen Udine Following the fiasco of Ras Dumisani's butchering of South Africa's national anthem in Toulouse, the management of the Springboks are leaving nothing to chance for Saturday's match against Italy here at the Stadio Friuli.

The U.N. World Summit on Food Security ended Wednesday in Rome with Food and Agriculture Organization  head Jacques Diouf calling for the global community to shift the fight against global hunger from "words to action,"  Agence France-Press reports.

A cameraman films the bullet riddled wall outside Nariman House after a multi-faith candle light... A cameraman films the bullet riddled wall outside Nariman House after a multi-faith candle light vigil to commemorate last year's terror attacks at the house in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Nov.

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.