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• Bishop urges prayer during transition Play Video

  March 5, 2013 8:00 PM

  COLORADO SPRINGS - At the noon daily mass at Saint Mary's Cathedral, parishioners come to quietly pray and worship in a custom that has spanned centuries and continents. As church leaders in Rome begin the process of electing a new Pope, Bishop Michael Sheridan says 150,000 or so members... more »

• Cave in Italy added to map of WWI locations

  August 27, 2012 5:19 PM

  It's a cave in Italy used during World War I, and authentic artifacts are still inside. Historians knew about the cave because an Austrian officer wrote about it in his war diary, but its location wasn't revealed until two years ago by a retreating glacier. Now officials are adding it... more »

• Italy: Funds-short museum burns art in protest

  April 18, 2012 8:54 PM

  ROME (AP) - The director of a contemporary art museum in Italy is burning paintings to protest a shortage of funds. Antonio Manfredi set aflame Wednesday night a painting by Neapolitan artist Rosaria Matarese outside the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, which is housed in the basement of a public school... more »

• 2 Americans identified from Costa Concordia

  April 17, 2012 8:32 AM

  ROME (AP) - Italian officials say they have identified the bodies of an American couple and two German nationals who perished when the Costa Concordia cruise ship capsized. The bodies of the four passengers were identified Tuesday on the interior ministry's website in a posting by the prefect's office from... more »

• Costa offers nearly $15K to passengers for ruined cruise

  January 27, 2012 7:55 AM

  ROME (AP) - Costa Crociere SpA has offered passengers euro11,000 ($14,460) apiece to compensate them for their lost baggage and psychological trauma after its cruise ship ran aground and capsized off Tuscany when the captain deviated from his route. Costa, a unit of the world's biggest cruise operator Carnival... more »

• Seventh body found from wrecked cruise ship

  January 17, 2012 7:39 AM

  A seventh body has been recovered from the wrecked cruise ship that ran aground over the weekend. A Dutch extraction firm says it will take between two to four weeks to safely remove the oil from the ship off Italy's Tuscan coast. The firm Smit, of Rotterdam, Netherlands,... more »

• Knox leaves Italian prison

  October 3, 2011 9:02 PM

  PERUGIA, Italy (AP) - Amanda Knox has said she just wants to go home and restart her life. An Italian appeals court cleared the American of the 2007 murder and sexual assault of her British roommate. A friend who accompanied Knox as she left prison says Knox said she... more »

• Missing da Vinci may soon be uncovered Play Video

  October 1, 2011 2:14 PM

  CHICAGO - New technology being developed in the United States could help solve one of the great art mysteries of all time. A lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece, in Italy, could finally be uncovered all thanks to a new device developed in Chicago. In 1505, da Vinci began creating... more »

• Miracle claimed for controversial WWII-era pope

  July 3, 2011 6:02 PM

  CASTELLAMMARE DI STABIA, Italy (AP) - Maria Esposito says she was cured from an aggressive form of cancer after she and her husband prayed to the late Pope Pius XII. The Italian woman is convinced that the World War II-era pope intervened with God to save her. Esposito's... more »

• West coast vintners hope late harvest makes fine wine

  October 11, 2010 9:47 AM

  Growers along the West Coast are rushing to pick grapes after a cool summer led to a late harvest. Jon Emmerich of Silverado Vineyards in California's Napa valley says the harvest is running about three weeks behind because workers were waiting to let the grapes ripen. Growers in... more »

• Italian farmers breed lycopene-rich, super tomato

  September 29, 2010 8:53 AM

  Italian farmers are growing a new kind of super tomato that has higher concentrations of lycopene, the chemical that gives the tomato its color, but it can also be very healthy. Lycopene is a strong anti-oxidant, which is believed to neutralize free radicals that damage human cells. Several studies... more »

• Controller faulted in Hudson midair collision

  September 14, 2010 3:43 PM

  A federal safety panel says an air traffic controller who was engaged in a personal phone call was partly responsible for a midair collision last year over the Hudson River between a tour helicopter and a small plane. The crash on Aug. 8, 2009, killed nine people. The... more »

• World's shortest man dies in Italy

  March 16, 2010 9:38 AM

  A production company says the world's shortest man has died in Italy, where he was to take part in a TV show. He Pingping, of China, who was 74.6 centimeters (2 feet, 5.37 inches) tall, died Saturday in Rome, according to the TV production company Europroduzione. Guinness World Records says... more »

• Lance Armstrong to race in Italy

  March 15, 2010 12:49 PM

  Organizers for the Milan-San Remo have confirmed that seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong will take part in Saturday's race. RCS Sport said Monday that Armstrong made the commitment in a phone call with race director Angelo Zomegnan. The Milan-San Remo is the opening single-day classic of the... more »

• US Apple iPad sales to begin April 3

  March 5, 2010 9:16 AM

  Apple says its much-anticipated iPad tablet will hit U.S. store shelves on April 3. Apple had originally said the device would be released worldwide in March. Apple Inc. said Friday the Wi-Fi models will go on sale first. iPads that can connect to Wi-Fi as well as 3G cellular... more »

• Utah appeals decision on radioactive waste

  January 14, 2010 8:27 AM

  The state of Utah and an interstate compact that regulates low-level radioactive waste are challenging a court's ruling that the compact cannot regulate a private radioactive waste site in the state. They will argue their case in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver Thursday. EnergySolutions Inc. wants... more »

• Lochte to miss Duel in the Pool because of surgery

  December 11, 2009 1:49 PM

  Olympic gold medalist Ryan Lochte has withdrawn from next week's Duel in the Pool in Britain because he's still recovering from knee surgery. USA Swimming, headquartered in Colorado Springs, said Friday that Lochte's spot on the 36-member U.S. team won't be filled. The event features such U.S. Olympians as Michael... more »

• Europe fails to agree on bluefin tuna ban

  September 23, 2009 11:21 AM

  A sharply divided European Union failed Tuesday to protect the threatened bluefin tuna, as the bloc's Mediterranean nations refused to back even a temporary a ban on catching the fish prized by sushi aficionados. The EU's executive commission urged EU governments to agree to a temporary ban until the... more »