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Inside the courthouse, dozens of cameramen, photographers and reporters elbow their way around to get the best view of Amanda Knox. Outside, TV satellite trucks line the cobblestone streets of this central Italian town.
Two years ago, as she waited to know whether she'd be found guilty of murdering her British roommate, Amanda Knox was so confident she thought she'd be flying home to Seattle within hours.
Meredith Kercher would have been 25. The British student would have finished her degree at Leeds University and perhaps been preparing for another Halloween, a day she loved.
American student Amanda Knox won another battle in her quest to overturn a conviction for murdering her British roommate in Italy when an appeals court rejected a prosecutor's request Wednesday for more DNA testing.
Italy's government approved euro45.5 billion ($64.84 billion) Friday in emergency austerity measures over two years to balance the budget by 2013 in response to demands by the European Central Bank.
Amanda Knox won a crucial legal victory Wednesday as an independent forensic report said that much of the DNA evidence used to convict the American student and her co-defendant in the murder of her roommate is unreliable and possibly contaminated.
Brazil's one-time food security minister, Jose Graziano da Silva, was elected Sunday director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, the U.N. agency tasked with reducing world hunger at a time of near-record high food prices.
Global food prices fell slightly in May, but they will remain "at stubbornly high levels" for months to come, a U.N. agency said Tuesday.
Some Italian lawmakers claim Amanda Knox was treated unfairly and are seeking a probe of the prosecutors' office in Perugia, the city where the American student was convicted of murdering her British roommate.
Premier Silvio Berlusconi faces his first electoral test since going on trial for allegedly buying sex from an underage prostitute, as cities including Milan, his home base, and garbage-plagued Naples elect mayors.
Some 150 Gypsies whose camp was dismantled have taken refuge in one of Rome's most ancient basilicas, creating a standoff Saturday with city officials trying to get them out.
Director Nanni Moretti's movie about a panic-stricken pope who can't cope with the enormity of his task is a hit across Italy. Within the Catholic Church, the film has drawn some criticism, though not the anathema that "The Da Vinci Code" has incurred, and even a little praise.
Europe should help Italy cope with a massive influx of migrants from North Africa, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday, as fears mounted of a deeper crisis with the possible arrival of waves of refugees from Libya.
The government of Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who is involved in a sex scandal many say fosters a demeaning image of Italian women, took action Wednesday against ads that use vulgar images of the female body.
Independent forensic experts will have 90 days starting next month to review crucial evidence linking American student Amanda Knox to the murder of her British roommate, an appeals court said Saturday.
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi had sex with a significant number of prostitutes, Milan prosecutors alleged Monday in documents seeking authorization to search some of his properties.
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Wednesday that several opposition lawmakers had offered to support his government, a day after his narrow survival of confidence votes in parliament provoked violent protests in Rome.
The WikiLeaks cables have caused Silvio Berlusconi major embarrassment, with juicy gossip about hard partying and too-cozy ties to Russia. But the Italian premier has bigger problems on his hands than diplomatic indiscretions: In upcoming days he'll be fighting for his very political survival.
Michael Seifert, a former Nazi SS prison guard known as "the beast of Bolzano" for his cruelty, died Saturday in an Italian hospital at age 86, officials said.
A Belgian movie that uses black humor to explore the topics of suicide and euthanasia won the top award at the Rome Film Festival on Friday.
Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne says the tradition-laden Italian automaker would be better off without Italy and its balky unions, provoking an angry reaction Monday from some labor and government officials.
Amanda Knox, the American student convicted in Italy of murdering her British roommate, is quoted as saying in a new book that she'd rather not be famous for the slaying and that her days in jail feel like "limbo" — suspended between her old life and her hopes for the future.
Thousands of people bid farewell at an open-air funeral Saturday to a 15-year-old schoolgirl whose killing — announced to her mother on live TV — has shocked this nation.
U.N. food agencies said Wednesday that 166 million people in 22 countries suffer chronic hunger or difficulty finding enough to eat as a result of what they called protracted food crises.
Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday survived his first test in parliament since the breakup with a powerful ally, a victory that leaves his conservative government safely in place at least until after the summer.
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