Rock Italy

AC Milan will defend their two-point Serie A lead on Sunday night when they face Juventus, a huge match which threatens to be overshadowed by a gambling scandal rocking Italian football.

Forty-three people died while 80 people survived when a boat carrying migrants crashed against rocks near the coast of southern Italy early on Sunday, the Italian coast guard and police said.

Inside a miniature tomb, in the middle of what used to be a sprawling Roman villa, is the skeleton of a 10-year-old child who died more than 1,500 years ago. It is on its side, its mouth agape and stuffed with a limestone rock about the size of a big egg.

At least 11 people were killed in southern Italy on Monday when they were washed away over rocks by a raging white-water creek in a deep mountain gorge that swelled suddenly after heavy rain upstream, officials said.

There has been no Indian casualty in the magnitude 6.2 earthquake that rocked Italy on Wednesday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said citing the Indian embassy in Rome.

She is probably the coolest nun you'll ever come across. This young nun, dressed in her traditional habit, crucifix and black shoes, stunned the crowd and fellow Sisters in the audience with her dancing and soulful singing.

Salvage crews lifted the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner off a rock shelf on Monday as they worked deep into the night to complete one of the most difficult and expensive maritime salvage operations ever undertaken.

Italy's Costa Concordia cruise ship began emerging from its watery grave today in an unprecedented salvage operation that could create a toxic spill.

The match-fixing scandal that has rocked Italian soccer during the past year implicated the coach of Serie A champion Juventus on Monday and ensured at least one player won't be at the European Championship.

A strong 5.8-magnitude quake rocked Bulgaria shortly after 3:00 am (0000 GMT) on Tuesday, Bulgaria's Seismological Institute said.

In the hours after cruise liner Costa Concordia struck rocks off Italy, a port official urged Captain Francesco Schettino, who had abandoned ship, to return on board and help evacuation efforts.

On Sunday morning, when Gladys and Frank Rebello flipped opened the papers at their Naigaon residence, they weren't expecting to read any piece of news that would concern them personally. But they learned that the Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia had hit a rock and sank off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, late Friday night. Aboard the liner...

Italian police say rescue crews in the Mediterranean have saved some 400 illegal migrants whose boat was tossed against rocks after the steering malfunctioned.Financial police official Fabrizio Pisanelli said the steering stopped working as the boat was nearing the port on the island of Lampedusa early on Sunday morning. Strong wind pushed the boat...

Strong aftershocks of earth quake continue to rock Central Italy and the death toll has increased to 272.

Strong aftershocks rocked the Italian city of L'Aquila overnight, raining fresh debris as rescuers pulled more earthquake survivors from the rubble and the death toll climbed to 235.

AC Milan will defend their two-point Serie A lead on Sunday night when they face Juventus, a huge match which threatens to be overshadowed by a gambling scandal rocking Italian football.

Forty-three people died while 80 people survived when a boat carrying migrants crashed against rocks near the coast of southern Italy early on Sunday, the Italian coast guard and police said.

Inside a miniature tomb, in the middle of what used to be a sprawling Roman villa, is the skeleton of a 10-year-old child who died more than 1,500 years ago. It is on its side, its mouth agape and stuffed with a limestone rock about the size of a big egg.

At least 11 people were killed in southern Italy on Monday when they were washed away over rocks by a raging white-water creek in a deep mountain gorge that swelled suddenly after heavy rain upstream, officials said.

There has been no Indian casualty in the magnitude 6.2 earthquake that rocked Italy on Wednesday, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said citing the Indian embassy in Rome.

She is probably the coolest nun you'll ever come across. This young nun, dressed in her traditional habit, crucifix and black shoes, stunned the crowd and fellow Sisters in the audience with her dancing and soulful singing.

Salvage crews lifted the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner off a rock shelf on Monday as they worked deep into the night to complete one of the most difficult and expensive maritime salvage operations ever undertaken.

Italy's Costa Concordia cruise ship began emerging from its watery grave today in an unprecedented salvage operation that could create a toxic spill.

The match-fixing scandal that has rocked Italian soccer during the past year implicated the coach of Serie A champion Juventus on Monday and ensured at least one player won't be at the European Championship.

A strong 5.8-magnitude quake rocked Bulgaria shortly after 3:00 am (0000 GMT) on Tuesday, Bulgaria's Seismological Institute said.

In the hours after cruise liner Costa Concordia struck rocks off Italy, a port official urged Captain Francesco Schettino, who had abandoned ship, to return on board and help evacuation efforts.

On Sunday morning, when Gladys and Frank Rebello flipped opened the papers at their Naigaon residence, they weren't expecting to read any piece of news that would concern them personally. But they learned that the Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia had hit a rock and sank off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, late Friday night. Aboard the liner...

Italian police say rescue crews in the Mediterranean have saved some 400 illegal migrants whose boat was tossed against rocks after the steering malfunctioned.Financial police official Fabrizio Pisanelli said the steering stopped working as the boat was nearing the port on the island of Lampedusa early on Sunday morning. Strong wind pushed the boat...

Strong aftershocks of earth quake continue to rock Central Italy and the death toll has increased to 272.

Strong aftershocks rocked the Italian city of L'Aquila overnight, raining fresh debris as rescuers pulled more earthquake survivors from the rubble and the death toll climbed to 235.