Last Updated: Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 01:42
Pope Francis as superman, flying through the air with his white cape billowing out behind him, the image graffitied by an anonymous artist onto a wall in Rome was tweeted by the Vatican.
Last Updated: Sunday, January 26, 2014, 18:58
Pope Francis prayed Sunday for an end to violence in Kiev, calling for dialogue between the Ukraine government and opposition amid fears fierce protests could develop into a wider civil conflict.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 25, 2014, 17:50
The Italian mafia plotted to blow up the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa among other monuments in the country.
Last Updated: Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 00:23
An Italian court on Tuesday sentenced to 16 years in prison a man who opened fire on police guarding Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta`s office in Rome on the day of his swearing-in ceremony last year.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 21, 2014, 15:31
Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, a former top Vatican accountant now on trial for money smuggling, was further charged with money laundering on Tuesday, police officials and his lawyer said.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 18, 2014, 20:58
Italy will take up at the "international level" the trial of two marines in India for the killing of two Indian fishermen, Premier Enrico Letta has said.
Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 22:13
The Costa Concordia cruise ship wreck will be removed in June from its watery graveyard off Tuscany and taken to a port to be dismantled, the final phase of an unprecedented USD 817 million salvage effort.
Last Updated: Saturday, January 4, 2014, 18:18
Former pope Benedict XVI secretly left his residence in the Vatican to visit his brother in hospital in Rome, La Stampa daily said Saturday.
Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 18:02
Pope Francis held a mass on Friday to celebrate the sainthood of Pierre Favre, an early Jesuit priest the pontiff has said particularly inspired him.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 2, 2014, 18:45
India has immortalised its legend Milkha Singh by making a movie on his life, but in Jand Awan village, family members of Abdul Khaliq, known as the `Flying Bird of Asia`, ask, "Has Khaliq run in vain"?
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 24, 2013, 17:15
Italy on Tuesday transferred migrants from a centre on the tiny island of Lampedusa at the heart of a controversy over unsanitary conditions and mistreatment, as protests continued in other facilities.
Last Updated: Sunday, December 22, 2013, 22:43
A 51-year-old man who set himself alight in St Peter`s Square in Vatican City earlier this week died of his injuries in hospital on Sunday, local media said.
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