Residents of an Italian town beat with iron bars, shot at and ran over immigrants, wounding nine -- two seriously -- in a second night of racially charged violence, authorities and reports said. The clashes in the southern town of Rosarno, which erupted Thursday during a protest by mainly African farm labourers, had injured 18 policemen and 19 foreigners in two days ...

Scuffles have broken out between Italian police and hundreds of immigrant workers in the southern city of Rosarno, injuring several people, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. The farm labourers, mostly from Africa, were angered after a number of them had been shot earlier in the day with an air rifle. While local officials were holding talks with some of ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Two French journalists seized by insurgents this week in Afghanistan are alive and well, their employer said on Friday. The reporters, their Afghan translator and driver were working for France 3 television when they were kidnapped on Wednesday while driving through Kapisa province, northeast of the Afghan capital Kabul. Paul Nahon, a manager at France 3, said the ...

The woman who launched a Christmas Eve attack on Pope Benedict XVI will likely not face charges because of her mental state, Italian news agency ANSA said Monday, citing Vatican sources. A Vatican court will probably acquit 25-year-old Susanna Maiolo, who leapt over a security barrier and knocked the pope to the ground at midnight mass in Saint Peter's ...