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07:08 PM, Jun 02, 2012

Catch the day's top stories on India at 9 with Veeraraghav and Suhasini Haidar. ...

11:38 PM, May 30, 2012

Kochi: After being in jail for almost four months, the two Italian marines charged with the killing of two Indian fishermen were on Wednesday granted bail by the Kerala High Court, but with stringent conditions. The Kerala government has to ensure they do not leave the country. The marines, Latore Massimiliano and Salvatore Girone, have been asked to pay Rs 1 crore each as a bail bond and two Indians...

09:08 PM, May 30, 2012

Rome: A US marine sergeant has been arrested by Italian police after he allegedly made a video of his repeated rape of a seven-year-old girl and posted it online. The 28-year-old soldier from Florida was arrested on Tuesday by the Italian Carabinieri military police and is being held at a prison in Pisa. The US has the right to request his extradition. The US marines took part in the investigation....

12:51 PM, May 30, 2012

San Felice sul Panaro: Workers at the small machinery company had just returned for their first shift following Italy's powerful and deadly quake earlier this month when another one struck on Tuesday, collapsing the roof. At least three employees at the factory - two immigrants and an Italian engineer checking the building's stability - were among those killed in the second deadly quake in nine days to strike a region...

02:26 AM, May 30, 2012

Florence, Italy: Italy coach Cesare Prandelli has trimmed his provisional squad for the European Championship to 25 players. Prandelli will cut another two before submitting his final 23-man list to UEFA by mid-day local time on Tuesday. Zenit St. Petersburg defender Domenico Criscito was left out after he was placed under investigation for possible match-fixing during his time at Genoa. Emiliano Viviano, Davide Astori, Salvatore Bocchetti, Luca Cigarini, Ezequiel Schelotto...

02:31 PM, May 29, 2012

Milan: A magnitude 5.8 earthquake shook northern Italy on Tuesday, killing at least three people according to Italian news reports. The United States Geological Survey said the quake, which struck at 9:00 am local time (0700 GMT), was centered 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Bologna. It hit the same region where a stronger temblor measuring 6.0 earlier this month killed seven people, most when factories working overnight collapsed. The...

01:30 PM, May 29, 2012

Rome: A 37-year-old Indian migrant in Italy killed his pregnant wife because she loved wearing western clothes and he wanted to punish her for going against Indian traditions. The Indian, whose name was given as Singhj Kulbir, told police in Piacenza city in northern Italy that he strangled to death his 27-year-old wife - named as Kaur Balwinde - before throwing her corpse in the Po river, a news agency...

10:16 AM, May 29, 2012

London: Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi had 16 million pounds (about $25 million) in cash delivered to his luxury villa to pay girls at his bunga bunga parties, 'The Sun' reported. The staggering stash was revealed during the trial of the 75-year-old politician who refuses to admit to have paid for having sex with a minor. Dozens of women received money, cars and jewels for attending the bashes and...

10:58 AM, May 27, 2012

Kollam/Kochi: Two Italian marines, charged with shooting to death two Indian fishermen off Kerala coast, were on Friday shifted from prison to the Borstal School in Kochi and the case referred to the Sessions court clearing the decks for trial. The marines, Latorre Massimiliano and Salvatore Girone, had spent nearly three months in the Central Prison at Thiruvanathapuram under judicial remand after a few days of police custody following their...

07:38 PM, May 25, 2012

Europe's economic slowdown has hit the engine-room of the euro zone, including Germany, gloomy new indicators have revealed, adding urgency to the region's struggle to keep Greece's debt crisis from tearing the single currency apart. So far, the 17-nation euro zone's downturn has been confined mainly to its periphery, but an index measuring broad economic activity across the monetary union in May showed its weakest outcome since mid-2009, during the...

03:43 PM, May 25, 2012

Thiruvananthapuram: Two Italian marines lodged in the Central Prison here for allegedly shooting to death two Indian fishermen, would be shifted to Kochi. This was decided by the state government on Wednesday in view of the Supreme Court direction to it to take a stand on the plea of the Italian authorities to move the marines away from the Central Prison. Borstal school, where the two marines will be kept...

11:01 PM, May 23, 2012

Milan: Mario Balotelli has assured Italy coach Cesare Prandelli that he will be on his best behaviour for the duration of the Azzurri's Euro 2012 campaign. The Manchester City forward's antics have dominated the headlines in Britain throughout the season, leading to speculation that he would not be trusted to lead the line at Euro 2012. However, Balotelli has stated that he is ready to curtail his erratic behaviour in...

09:04 PM, May 21, 2012

Rome: One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least three people, toppled some buildings and sent residents running into the streets, emergency services and news reports said. The quake struck at 4:04 am on Sunday between Modena and Mantova, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) north-northwest of Bologna at a relatively shallow depth of 5 kilometers...

01:58 PM, May 20, 2012

Bologna: A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck near Bologna, Italy, on Sunday, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake, which initially registered at magnitude 6.3, was centered 22 miles (35 km) north-northwest of Bologna in northern Italy at a relatively shallow depth of 6.3 miles (10 km), the USGS said. The last major earthquake to hit Italy was a 6.3 magnitude quake in the central Italian city of L'Aquila in 2009,...

08:33 AM, May 20, 2012