Vatican City, July 2 - The Catholic Church risks approaching modern science with the same prejudices that resulted in it rejecting the theories of Galileo, a Vatican official warned Thursday. Presenting a new edition of documents relating to the tri
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Viareggio, July 2 - The toll from Tuesday's gas train explosion in the Tuscan town of Viareggio rose to 19 Thursday as a woman died in hospital. About ten of the burns patients from the disaster are fighting for their lives, hospitals said. Italian
Rome, July 2 - Culture Minister Sandro Bondi on Thursday presented 14 antiquities returned to Italy by the Cleveland Museum of Art after the government proved that the works had been looted or stolen. The returns include a bronze statuette of an arc
Rome, July 2 - Italy cracked down on illegal immigration and crime with a new law Thursday. For the first time, illegal immigration becomes a crime and Italians are encouraged to report illegals. The controversial law, which passed by 157 votes to 1
by Denis Greenan. Rome, July 2 - Defenders of wartime pope Pius XII have ''nice surprises'' in store, the keeper of the Vatican's secret archives said Thursday. The controversial pope, who has been criticised for not speaking out clearly against th
Naples, July 2 - A sweep against organised crime north of Naples Thursday netted 15 suspected members of the Neapolitan mafia clan denounced by writer Roberto Saviano in his bestseller Gomorra.Police said the operation mopped up feuding factions of
Rome, July 2 - Vincenzo Montella, the striker who helped AS Roma to the scudetto on 2001, is hanging up his boots, sources close to the Roman club said Thursday. Montella, 35, a nippy centre-foward known as The Little Aeroplane because of his wheeli
Rome, July 1 - The Vatican has spent over three million euros restoring the last frescoes ever painted by Michelangelo which may have unveiled a new self-portrait by the Renaissance genius. Restorers spent seven years cleaning up the frescoes of the
Rome, July 1 - Italy came under fire for its controversial immigration policy again on Wednesday as it returned another boatload of would-be migrants intercepted in the Mediterranean back to Libya. On Tuesday night 89 migrants, including nine women
Rome, July 1 - The death toll from Tuesday's gas train explosion in Viareggio rose to 17 Wednesday as two small children and a man died in hospital. Transport Minister Altero Matteoli told parliament that 20 of the 31 people injured are in critical
Milan, July 1 - The wife of a Muslim cleric allegedly snatched by the CIA from Italy to Egypt in 2003 is to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against state secrecy rules which have muzzled prosecutors here. Nabila Ghali, the second wife o
Vatican City, July 1 - Pope Benedict XVI's third encyclical will be presented on July 7, the Vatican said Wednesday. In the encyclical, Caritas in Veritate Charity in Truth, the pontiff discusses economics, globalisation and the need to rise above m
Rome, July 1 - Protests in Iran over the outcome of the recent presidential elections will continue, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini predicted on Wednesday. ''I am convinced they will continue.What is important is that the right to protest
Bologna, July 1 - Bologna on Wednesday denied reports that Calciopoli match-fixing figure Luciano Moggi was set to become a consultant for the Serie A club. ''I've been speaking to Moggi for months but he doesn't want to come to Bologna and I don't
Madrid, June 30 - Chamber of Deputies Speaker Gianfranco Fini on Tuesday said repatriating illegal immigrants without distinguishing them from asylum seekers was ''immoral''. Fini's comments at a forum organised by Spanish daily El Mundo appeared to
Rome, June 30 - Francesca Schiavone on Tuesday failed in her bid to become Italy's first Wimbledon semi-finalist - and its first Grand Slam semi-finalist of the Open Era. Unseeded Schiavone, 29, fell 6-2 6-2 to fourth seed Elena Dementieva of Russia
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