More than 100 miners have barricaded themselves with explosives inside a carbon mine on the Italian island of Sardinia as they seek to persuade the government to invest in the mine's future.
[Updated 3 p.m. ET, Monday, August 29] These beachgoers are enjoying themselves on Isola dei Conigli ("Rabbit Island") in Lampedusa, Italy.
A summer playground for Hollywood a-listers, European elites as well as us ordinary mortals, the Italian island of Sardinia is the place to go for sea, sun and celebrities.
What do you do if you're searching for the airport meditation zone but you can't speak a word of English? If you're traveling through Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, you can be sure they'll be a handy pictogram to help you.
Former Enron executive Andrew Fastow has been transferred from prison to a halfway house, the last stage of incarceration before his scheduled release later this year, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons.
We don't have guillotines here, so the best we can do with our miscreants is to torment them with news of a better life they may never experience again. Dennis Kozlowski --- Wall Street crook and notorious party reveler who gave Stolichnaya a bad name-welcome to today's real estate report!
The couple spend two days together in her hometown of Tresnuraghes, in Sardinia
Striking expanses of coastline aren't exactly in short supply across the Mediterranean. But for some reason, only a few marquee spots -- the Greek Isles, the Amalfi Coast, the south of France -- get all the love. Chances are, Sardinia doesn't even make the list.
Many authors can move readers with their words, but Frances Mayes has the power to actually make readers move.
In the same way organisms select for characteristics that favor the survival and well-being of its species over successive generations, so too do cultures. With organisms, we call this process evolution and it represents a sort of accumulated wisdom. There is no word for this process in cultures, but there is one for the result. And that word is tradition.
National Geographic writer and explorer Dan Buettner talks about finding the path to long life and health.
CNN.com today featured a live Webcast of The Clinic, looking at how science is making progress in the quest for immortality.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta teams with anti-aging experts to bring you an in-depth discussion on the search for immortality.
Italy's top court has overturned a law that shielded Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from possible prosecution.
Italy's top court annuls law shielding Prime Minister Berlusconi from possible prosecution. CNN's Paula Newton reports.
Italy's flamboyant Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will soon learn whether a controversial law granting top officials immunity from prosecution will remain on the books, after the country's top court heard arguments about it Tuesday.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi denies prostitution allegation. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has refuted allegations that he paid prostitutes to attend parties he hosted at his various homes.
A French battleship sunk by German torpedoes in 1917 is lying upright and almost intact at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, where it was found by an unmanned submarine surveying a proposed gas pipeline route between Italy and Algeria.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, no stranger to verbal gaffes, has come under fire again for a remark that critics say makes light of rape.
Magnificent 7
updated: Mon Jun 16 2008 07:24:00
Nick Smith, head of public relations for Ascot was in the crowd when Frankie Dettori won his "Magnificent 7", in September 1996.
Remember Tyco, the poster child for an overzealous acquisition strategy run amok?
In the summer months, when the beaches get overrun with sun bathers, the super rich secure a yacht and head a little farther out to find solace on the high seas.
Another yacht sighting is nothing special to those along Corsica's southern port of Bonafacio - but vacationing pedestrians still did a double-take around 10 p.m. on Thursday.
PARIS -- The French Open is undoubtedly the toughest Grand Slam of the year for me. The clay-court surface is like kryptonite for most Americans.
Former Tyco International chairman Dennis Kozlowski returned to prison early Thursday afternoon after being hospitalized, according to a prison spokeswoman.
Oh, to see the world as Paola Antonelli sees it.
In a major victory in the government crackdown on corporate corruption, former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and ex-CFO Mark Swartz were found guilty Friday of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the manufacturing conglomerate.
A drawn-looking Pope John Paul II, unable to preside over Palm Sunday Mass for the first time in his 26-year papacy, waved an olive branch from his apartment window to tens of thousands of pilgrims who filled St. Peter's Square.
Police say they have defused an explosive device near a Sardinian villa where Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had been entertaining his British counterpart Tony Blair, news reports said.
Pete McEntegart, a writer at Fortune's sister magazine Sports Illustrated and a former Goldman Sachs banker, spent six months as a juror at the Tyco trial. After a mistrial was declared, McEntegart...
The judge in the corruption trial of ex-Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski sent the jury home Friday after deliberations almost fell apart but asked the panel to come back and try again Monday.
Jury deliberations in the Tyco corruption trial erupted in acrimony Thursday, raising the possibility that the panel may fail to reach a verdict in the nearly six-month long trial.
First came the season of germination, when this lush new crop of business scandals sprang with startling brightness from the richly manured soil of the market mania.
It's that time of year again, when the tables that groan under their own weight are not just actuarial. Many of us enter this season as lean as Dick Grasso and waddle out the other end as plump as ...
There's been a lot of nonsense criticizing Dennis Kozlowski for a perfectly innocent corporate retreat he had on Sardinia a couple of years ago. As you may know, the CEO of Tyco, with a heart as b...
Midas had his gold. Elvis had his Cadillacs. Dennis Kozlowski had his, um, shower curtain.
Does EBITDA now stand for "Earnings Before I Tricked the Dumb Auditors?" As that current Wall Street joke suggests, the scope of corporate ethics has grown a bit wider in the past 12 months. The at...
I had been yearning for a field of my own for a very long time--and here it was at the end of a rainbow. Not a 7-Eleven, not a McDonald's in sight.
A trim 60-year-old, Chairman Carl Hahn loves to tear around the Volkswagen test track on the replica of an antique motorcycle his employees gave him on his last birthday. This summer he is looking ...
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