Many Italians reacted with incredulity and outrage after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called the first African-American president-elect in history “young, handsome and suntanned.”

Many Italians reacted with incredulity and outrage after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called the first African-American president-elect in history “young, handsome and suntanned.”

Students and teachers took to the streets of Italy for the third consecutive day to protest reforms and cutbacks by the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

In many countries, the leader’s popularity often rises and falls with the state of the economy. That does not appear to be the case in Italy.

Opposition lawmakers leapt on the episodes as showing that the government?s stance on crime and illegal immigration had been little more than window dressing.

Opposition lawmakers leapt on the episodes as showing that the government?s stance on crime and illegal immigration had been little more than window dressing.

An 18th-century allegorical figure in a painting that serves as a backdrop for government news conferences was recently retouched to cover a body part.

The effort will flank regular police and military police officers with 3,000 troops that will be deployed to embassies and subway and rail stations.

The effort will flank regular police and military police officers with 3,000 troops that will be deployed to embassies and subway and rail stations.

Norwegian police and immigration authorities have raised security at a refugee center following an attack by dozens of men armed with steel rods, knives and other weapons.