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L'AQUILA, Italy -- Strong aftershocks Tuesday sent a fresh wave of fear across earthquake-shattered central Italy, and rescue crews pulled a young woman alive from a collapsed building about 42 [...]

Byline: MARTA FALCONI; Associated Press EARTHQUAKE IN ITALY Aftershocks continue to frighten residents, as death toll climbs to 235 L'AQUILA, ITALY -- Strong aftershocks yesterday sent a fresh wave of [...]

L'AQUILA, Italy -- Rescue workers using bare hands and buckets searched frantically for students believed buried in a wrecked dormitory after Italy's deadliest quake in nearly three decades struck this [...]

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican on Thursday rejected requests to immediately open its secret archives on wartime Pope Pius XII, who critics say did not speak out enough to save [...]

ROME World rice prices that have tripled in Asia over the course of the year may come down, but overall food prices will remain high for years to come, leaving [...]

PERUGIA, Italy For many college students, a year abroad is an experience of a lifetime an opportunity to learn a new language and live in a new culture. But it's [...]

ROME Rome marked the opening of its first 'Gay Street' with flags, banners and protests amid a row over a homosexual couple who claimed they were detained by police for [...]

Byline: MARTA FALCONI; Associated Press RAVELLO, ITALY -- Here along the Amalfi Coast, dramatic panoramas of rocky cliffs hanging over the sea are everywhere. But the views from the town [...]

ROME Tens of thousands of mothers, fathers, sons and daughters rallied Saturday to tell Italy that they alone should be counted as families, pressuring Parliament to reject legislation that would [...]

Byline: MARTA FALCONI; Associated Press ROME -- It's a rare chance to smell the scent of ancient history -- typically a mix of natural spices and olive oil -- thanks [...]

ROME The United States and much of Europe have reversed years of deforestation and are showing a net increase in wooded areas, while most developing countries continue to cut down [...]

ROME Caroline Hart chose a church convent for her stay in Rome this week instead of a hotel. She's also walking more and eating less. But it's not a spiritual [...]

ROME Anthropologists said they have pieced together Leonardo da Vinci's left index fingerprint a discovery that could help provide information on such matters as the food the artist ate and [...]

Byline: MARTA FALCONI; Associated Press BRACCIANO, ITALY -- This medieval lakeside town outside Rome spruced up for an onslaught of fans, celebrities and paparazzi yesterday, the eve of the eagerly [...]

Byline: MARTA FALCONI; Associated Press ROME -- The 15th-century Odescalchi Castle near Lake Bracciano -- the likely venue for the weekend wedding of actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes -- [...]

Byline: MARTA FALCONI; Associated Press ROME -- From George Clooney's estate on Lake Como to Mussolini's former home on Garda Lake, media speculation on where in Italy Hollywood's most high-profile [...]

ROME - Vincent Schiavelli, the droopy-eyed character actor who appeared in scores of movies, including 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and 'Ghost,' died Monday at his home in Sicily. [...]

ROME - A group of engineers and geology experts say they are considering injecting seawater under Venice to raise the waterlogged Italian city by one foot to rescue it from [...]

ROME - Art experts and conservative clerics are holding an unusual 'trial' in Leonardo da Vinci's hometown aimed at sorting out fact from fiction in the 'The Da Vinci Code' [...]

ROME - A fingerprint and stylistic touches uncovered during restoration of a disputed Renaissance masterpiece raises the possibility it may have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci, who sometimes left [...]

Byline: MARTA FALCONI; Associated Press ROME -- It's an artistic mystery whose hottest clue is a fingerprint. The Adoration of the Christ Child is attributed to Fra Bartolomeo, but a [...]