The Italian diplomat Filippo Grandi was Wednesday appointed head of the refugee agency UNHCR, the United Nations (UN). The General Assembly of the UN has yet to vote on the appointment by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. According to diplomats, it is likely that Member States agree.
The Roman Catholic Church must put an end to his obsession for power and money. That Pope Francis said Tuesday during a speech to the Italian bishops in Tuscany. "I prefer a church that has been damaged and dirty because he has taken to the streets over a church of only on preserving its own security. "
An Italian vet was fired because he shot a lion on safari in Africa.
The painting now couché by Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani is in New York for more than $ 170 million (approximately 158 million euros) changed ownership. The cloth was at an auction at Christie's bought by an unidentified Chinese buyer.
Pope Francis is Monday for the second time in three days tripped, causing immediate speculation erupted about his health.
A convicted terrorist who is put off Italy last year, tried to return a refugee in Europe.
Eight days after the devastating fire in a nightclub in Bucharest increased the death toll to 39. The disaster prompted massive street protests, which resulted in the resignation of Prime Minister Victor Ponta. Many Romanians corruption and thus lead the government as responsible for the event.
A mafia gang in Rome has probably millions gesnoept contracts that ended the municipality. The gang of 46 suspects state from Thursday into the Italian capital.
Wake up! called CD of Pope Francis which was presented Thursday at the Vatican. Anyone interested in listening to speeches and sermons of the Catholic pastor can make a selection from late November on the shelves of music stores.
An Italian participant in the New York marathon which had disappeared after finishing, is again justified. An officer found the 30-year Gianclaudio Marengo Tuesday morning shivering in the subway.
More than a month after the kidnapping of some foreigners in the Philippines, Islamic extremists reportedly demanded millions of ransom. According to the American organization Site, following terrorist activities, wants the Islamic rebel group Abu Sayyaf 1 billion pesos (the equivalent of 19.5 million euro) ransom for her four hostages. The requirement would be brought out of an Internet video.
Financial researchers think the accountant department APSA of the Vatican in the past has been used by others for embezzlement on a large scale. They argue that in a report seen by Reuters.
A 17- year-old girl is in the south of Italy, her mother shot and killed when she snatched the phone from her daughter. The daughter is arrested, Italian media report.
The Sicilian city of Messina is after a landslide almost a week without water. More than 240,000 residents receive water from tanker trucks.
The mayor of Rome three weeks ago his resignation because of a scandal declaration, nevertheless decided not to leave. The sexagenarian mayor made Thursday Facebook announced, despite resistance from the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
Furious, which were the Italian opposition when they have to learn that the former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, more than 24 000 euro received for a twenty- minute interview with the Italian public broadcaster RAI.
Six months after the capsizing of a refugee boat on the Mediterranean, where presumably found some 750 crew death, the wreck can still be salvaged. The accident to the coast of Libya in April is considered the deadliest accident with refugees at sea so far.
International rescue teams have Wednesday on the Mediterranean coast more than a thousand migrants rescued in distress. The refugees were traveling in six inflatable boats and a wooden ship when they got into trouble in Libya.
An Italian and a Polish MEP fined and temporarily suspended because they brought the Nazi salute in parliament. The sanction of Parliament president Martin Schulz has been taken by the board of parliament.
Cleaners of the Italian museum Bozen- Bolzano to work something thoroughly gone and have thrown a complete work of art in their work...
Condemned as a witch, Mary Bertoletti Toldini di Pilcante was beheaded nearly three hundred years ago and burned. Now the northern Italian place Brentonico again bring to court the case.
The Vatican denies Pope Francis has a benign brain tumor. The Italian newspaper Quotidiano Nazionale unveiled Wednesday on its front page that the 78 -year-old pope secretly by helicopter to Tuscany flew to consult a Japanese doctor there.
Nineteen Member States of the European Union deliver 291 border guards who are directly employed in Italy and Greece. The EU's border control agency Frontex early last month to 775 people , but the EU countries were initially barely commitments.
The more than two years ago in Syria kidnapped Italian Jesuit Father Paolo Dall'Oglio according rebels still alive . The spiritual is in the hands of Islamic State (IS) , the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported Tuesday .
The government of Rome fears that the Italian capital since the beginning of the Holy Year on December 8th goal of Islamic terror attacks will be. It is the first so-called jubilee year which the Catholic Church celebrates since the creation of Islamic state and that is why the big worry in the eternal city , writes the Italian daily La Repubblica on Monday.
The Italian police has more than 20 tons of hashish were seized. The drugs were hidden in the hull of a freighter and have an estimated street value of 200 million euros , police said Friday .
A remarkable decision of the Italian Supreme Court : Watch exciting videos on the work may , if not in the boss 's his time .
Police in Costa Rica have arrested seven suspected members of a drug gang. The suspects are from Costa Rica and Cuba. The gang is intertwined with the Mafia from Italy's Calabria. The investigation group was initiated after it was found in the Netherlands last year 3.5 tons of cocaine in a container from Costa Rica, the newspaper Diario Extra reported Thursdays.
Smartphones have a large number of sensors on board. The right combination of sensors, the device is able to detect when a user is going through a manic or depressive episode , according to an Italian study .
The Member States of the European Union are not doing what they promised to provide the refugee crisis. Too few countries to offer asylum to record from Italy or Greece. Also plunge the EU countries hardly any money in the fund for Syria and Africa and set them too little migration and asylum experts available .
