BRUSSELS -- The European Union has approved (EURO)670 million ($850 million) to help Italy's Emilia Romagna region recover from this year's back-to-ba...
BRUSSELS — The head of the European Parliament on Monday decried as shameful the delay by some countries in approving (EURO)670 million ($850.5 ...
2012 has been a tough year for science. It took a direct hit in Italy, escaped, temporarily, in North Carolina and had a minor set back in Virginia.
Italy has convicted six scientists of manslaughter for not predicting an earthquake that killed 300 people. Consider that maybe that this was a failure of communication, or of transparency, rather than negligence. Not exactly criminal, but out of synch with our age.
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 10/22/2012 02:36 PM EDT on LiveScience Seismologists are condemning a manslaughter verd...
ROME — Experts from a Venetian island famous for its glass-making are trying to save and restore four century-old crystal chandeliers caught up ...
It really seems that our country is being affected by all kinds of tragedies. And for this reason I really cannot see why we should spend the public money right now.
ROME — Earthquakes in Italy, like the twin temblors that claimed 24 lives this month in northern Italy, trigger a sense of terror and dread but ...
SAN FELICE SUL PANARO, Italy — Workers at the small machinery company had just returned for their first shift following Italy's powerful and dea...
It was a weekend of fear and mourning in Italy. Early this Sunday morning, an earthquake struck near Bologna. And on Saturday morning, a bomb exploded in front of a high school, killing a 16-year-old and injuring several other students seriously.
SANT'AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy — Cheese producer Oriano Caretti woke up to the shaking earth, and then to the roar of some 30,000 39-kilogram ...
By Stephen Jewkes FINALE EMILIA, Italy, May 21 (Reuters) - Thousands of people in northern Italy slept in tents and cars overnight as ...
SANT'AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy — A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook several small towns in northeast Italy, killing four people, knocking down a ...
* Quake, strongest in Italy in three years, hit when most slept * Castle, churches, other cultural sites damaged * Up t...
ROME — A 5.4-magnitude earthquake shook northern Italy on Friday, the second such temblor this week, but there were no reports of injuries or si...
ROME -- Seven scientists and other experts went on trial on manslaughter charges Tuesday for allegedly failing to sufficiently warn residents before a...
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Pope Benedict XVI has spent the morning in central Italy visiting survivors of the earthquake that struck on 6 April....
Silvio Berlusconi said today that he would move the G8 summit in July from Sardinia to L'Aquila, the centre of the Abruzzo earthquake, and divert the ...
The April 6 earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy, damaged more than just homes and buildings, it affected the culture of the region. Old churches and school...
ROME — Organized crime syndicates have already moved into the central Italian region devastated by a quake this month and are looking to profit ...
FOSSA, Italy — More than 65 years after villagers provided shelter to Italian Jews fleeing from the Nazis, a group of those who evaded capture r...
Berlusconi suggested that the residents leave the wreckage of their homes, and "go to the coast, it's Easter." His comments are a worrying sign of the disconnect with reality that power creates.
L'AQUILA, Italy — It was a scene that moved a nation: mourners clinging to one another and sobbing over neat rows of more than 200 coffins, some...
PACENTRO, Italy — The Material Girl is giving something back to the land of her ancestors. Madonna has promised $500,000 to help victims of Ita...
