House of Representatives passes Obama's healthcare bill
The US House of Representatives has approved the broadest US health care overhaul in a half-century, handing President Barack Obama a major victory on his top domestic priority.
With straight set victories, Flavia Pennetta (pictured) and Francesca Schiavone put Italy in a 2-0 lead position after the first day's play at the Fed Cup.
A top Italian court has convicted 23 American former CIA agents plus two Italian nationals for the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian imam in Milan. The court handed down prison sentences to all those convicted.
In today’s international press review, we look at the world’s reaction regarding the Lisbon Treaty. The Czech Republic was the last EU member state to sign it.
Italian police have arrested top fugitive Pasquale Russo, on the run since 1993, with his brother Carmine in a dawn raid the day after a third brother Salvatore was found holed up in a chicken farm.
Italian police have arrested Salvatore Russo, one of the country's most wanted mafia fugitives, after tearing down a wall in a dawn raid at a chicken farm where he had built a hideout, authorities said.
The corruption trial of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is due to start November 27, after Italy's constitutional court voted to lift his immunity.
Piero Marrazzo, a prominent opposition politician, resigned on Saturday after police were accused of blackmailing him with a video allegedly showing him with a transsexual. His Democratic Party was hoping Sunday's primary would revive its fortunes.
Life is still being rebuilt in L'Aquila after the earthquake six months ago. Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi pledged to provide the homeless with a roof before the end of September but thousands are still living in tents.
An Italian television channel owned by Silvio Berlusconi has shadowed and secretly filmed a judge who ruled against the prime minister's family holding in a bribery case, describing him as "eccentric" for wearing turquoise socks.
