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Pope, in Easter message, slams weapons spending in time of pandemic
Reuters - Sun Apr 4, 2021
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis urged countries in his Easter message on Sunday to quicken distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, particularly to the world's poor, and called armed conflict and military spending during a pandemic "scandalous". More»

Italy Sets Mandatory Quarantine For 16 Million People In Region Including Milan, Venice
Huffington Post - Sun Mar 8, 2020
Italy instituted a mandatory quarantine for 16 million people in the northern part of the country that includes Milan and Venice, in a desperate bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus. More»

Extreme Heat of Vesuvius Eruption Turned a Man's Brain to 'Glass'
Geology - Fri Feb 28, 2020
A man who died in Herculaneum during the historic Vesuvius eruption was found with an exploded skull and glass-like brain tissue. More»

Women judges quashed rape verdict as alleged victim was 'too masculine'
CNN - Wed Mar 13, 2019
Rome - Hundreds of demonstrators protested outside an Italian court this week after it emerged that two men were acquitted of rape partly because the judges believed the alleged victim looked too "masculine. More»

Vatican diplomat to Washington recalled because of child-porn investigation
Washington Post - Thu Sep 14, 2017
US officials found evidence implicating a Vatican diplomat in a child-pornography case, the Vatican said Friday, leading officials in Rome to recall the priest to the Holy See. More»

Arrested Catholic Archbishop's computer contained over 100,000 images of children
Raw Story - Wed Apr 20, 2016
Vatican detectives analyzing a computer used a by an archbishop arrested earlier this week discovered over 86,000 pornographic photos and 160 sexually explicit video files of children, reports the International Business Times. More»

Pre-Roman tomb unearthed in Pompeii
The Local (Italy) - Sun Sep 20, 2015
A rare pre-Roman tomb has been unearthed in Pompeii, shedding new light on life at the site in the fourth century BC. More»

EU funding 'Orwellian' artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for "abnormal behaviour"
The Telegraph, UK - Mon Sep 3, 2012
A five-year research programme, called Project Indect, aims to develop computer programmes which act as "agents" to monitor and process information from web sites, discussion forums, file servers, peer-to-peer networks and even individual computers. More»

Experts: Vatican Radio transmitters 'pose cancer risk'
BBC - Wed Jul 14, 2010
There is a "coherent and significant connection" between radiation from Vatican Radio aerials and childhood cancer, researchers have said. More»

Big freeze kills at least 80 across Europe
AFP - Sun Dec 20, 2009
PARIS - The death toll from winter storms across Europe rose to at least 80 on Monday as transport chaos spread amid mounting anger over the three-day failure of Eurostar high-speed trains. More»

Italian judge convicts 23 in CIA kidnap case
Associated Press - Tue Nov 3, 2009
MILAN - An Italian judge on Wednesday convicted 23 Americans in absentia of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program in the war on terrorism. More»

Vatican: Excommunication for female priests
Associated Press - Thu May 29, 2008
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican insisted Friday that it is properly following Christian tradition by excluding females from the priesthood as it issued a new warning that women taking part in ordinations will be excommunicated. More»

Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens
Associated Press - Mon May 12, 2008
VATICAN CITY - Believing that the universe may contain alien life does not contradict a faith in God, the Vatican's chief astronomer said in an interview published Tuesday. More»

Record prices for grain from corn to rice have ignited food riots
Christian Science Monitor - Thu Jan 17, 2008
Record prices for grain from corn to rice have ignited food riots from Jakarta to Rome. More»

'Mythical Roman cave' unearthed
BBC - Mon Nov 19, 2007
Italian archaeologists say they have found the long-lost underground grotto where ancient Romans believed a female wolf suckled the city's twin founders. More»

Leonardo Painting Has Coded 'Soundtrack'
Associated Press - Thu Nov 8, 2007
ROME - It's a new Da Vinci code, but this time it could be for real. More»

Debate rages as medium finds body in lake
The Guardian UK - Wed Sep 14, 2005
In a country where plaster Madonnas weep blood, it is only to be expected that the supernatural should be on everyone's minds. More»

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