ITALIANS FIND ENIGMA CRYPTOLOGIST SHIPWRECK (ANSA) - Milan, May 9 - A team of Italian divers claims to have discovered the wreck of the Amoriciere, a French passenger ship that sank in 1942 taking with it one of the Polish decryptors of Germany's Enigma code. The Italian divers, who are also staff members on the diving magazine ... > Full news story

RIINA TO REMAIN UNDER HIGH SECURITY INCARCERATION (ANSA) - Rome, May 7 - Ailing Cosa Nostra superboss Salvatore (Toto') Riina must remain under a high security prison regime because he is still dangerous, Italy's supreme court said on Wednesday. The Court of Cassation added that all his requests to be granted house arrest or to be plac... > Full news story

COURT REJECTS APPEAL BY 'BEASTS OF SATAN' (ANSA) - Rome, May 6 - Italy's highest appeals court has kicked out an appeal by five Satanists who murdered three people and attempted to kill two others near Varese in northern Italy between 1998 and 2004. Ruling that the so-called 'Beasts of Satan' must serve out their sentences, th... > Full news story

WAKE HELD FOR DEAD ITALIAN BEAR (ANSA) - Rome, May 6 - Animal rights campaigners wearing black and carrying funeral candles held a wake outside the Swiss Embassy in Rome on Tuesday for an Italian brown bear who was shot dead in Switzerland last month. The campaigners brought six stones bearing engravings of the bear,... > Full news story

ITALY TOPS FOR KIDS, NOT FOR MOMS (ANSA) - Rome, May 6 - Italy is the best place in the world to be for children but not for their mothers, according to the 2008 Mother's Day Report Card put out by the Save the Children charity organization. The annual ranking evaluates 146 countries to determine which are best for not... > Full news story

SKINHEAD ATTACK SPARKS CONCERNS (ANSA) - Verona, May 5 - Italian politicians on Monday were at odds over a neo-Fascist attack in the centre of Verona that some claimed marked a worrying level of political violence. Nicola Tommasoli, a 29-year-old industrial designer, has been in a coma since the evening of May 1 whe... > Full news story

MOTHERHOOD WORRIES FOR ITALIAN WOMEN (ANSA) - Rome, May 5 - Almost 40% of Italian mothers believe that having children is a daily struggle, according to a new report by the Doxa research institute on Monday. Busting the stereotype of the Mediterranean mother who believes having children is the most important experience of ... > Full news story

ITALY NEEDS MORE ORGAN DONORS (ANSA) - Rome, May 5 - Some 9,500 people will need organ transplants in Italy this year but just over 3,000 will receive organs due to a lack of donors, according to data from the National Transplant Center (CNT). ''We need more donors and for this reason it is very important that nati... > Full news story