Virus accelerates in Italy; US urges citizens to avoid north
MILAN (AP) — Coronavirus infections in Italy rose 50% Sunday and the U.S. government issued its strongest travel warning...
UK rises to 35 coronavirus cases, Czech Republic sees 1st 3
LONDON (AP) — British health authorities on Sunday confirmed 12 more cases of the new coronavirus, bringing the country’...
Empty streets, economic turmoil as virus alters daily life
TOKYO (AP) — The coronavirus claimed its first victim in the U.S. Saturday as the number of cases shot up in Iran, Italy...
Italy reports virus cases top 1,100, deaths reach 29
MILAN (AP) — Italian authorities say the country now has more than 1,000 coronavirus cases and 29 people infected with t...
Pope sick a 2nd day with apparent cold, cancels audiences
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis canceled his official audiences Friday after apparently coming down with a cold.The Vat...
New virus has infected 83,000 globally, caused 2,800 deaths
A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 83,000 people globally. The World Health Organization has na...
Italy blasts virus panic as it eyes new testing criteria
ROME (AP) — With tourism tanking and panic rising, Italy tried to control the coronavirus in the realm of public percept...
Serie A’s biggest match could be played in empty stadium
MILAN (AP) — Inter Milan coach Antonio Conte probably won’t have to sit through a torrent of boos when he returns to Tur...
Pope cancels visit with Rome priests for ‘slight’ illness
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is sick and he skipped a planned Mass with Rome clergy across town on Thursday, officia...
Pope observes usual Ash Wednesday customs in time of virus
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis celebrated the Ash Wednesday ritual that marks the opening of the Catholic Church’s Len...
Italy sees virus cases rise 45% in a day; deaths up to 11
ROME (AP) — Italy reported a 45% one-day increase in people infected with the coronavirus as other countries in Europe r...
6 European nations report virus cases with Italy link
BERLIN (AP) — Six European countries announced cases of COVID-19 disease Tuesday in people who had recently traveled fro...
Italy tries to contain virus as isolated towns hunker down
CODOGNO, Italy (AP) — Police manned checkpoints around quarantined towns in Italy’s north on Monday and residents stocke...
China promises companies aid, global virus cases rise
BEIJING (AP) — China’s government promised tax cuts and other aid Monday to help companies recover from its virus outbre...
Virus pushes beyond Asia, taking aim at Europe, Mideast
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The new virus took aim at a broadening swath of the globe Monday, with officials in Europe and...
Armani to hold runway show in empty theater due to new virus
MILAN (AP) — In a last-minute change, Giorgio Armani is holding his Milan Fashion Week runway show behind closed doors S...
Italy reports 1st virus death, cases more than quadruple
CODOGNO, Italy (AP) — Italy reported its first death from the new virus from China early Saturday and the number of peop...
For Napoli fans, the team is a religion and Maradona is god
NAPLES, Italy (AP) — When Lionel Messi climbs up the steps from the moat surrounding the field at the San Paolo Stadium ...
Abuse victims look to Vatican after UN meetings in Geneva
GENEVA (AP) — Three deaf victims of sexual abuse by priests in Argentina wrapped up a string of meetings with United Nat...
EU agrees to end Med anti-smuggler mission off Libya
BRUSSELS — European Union foreign ministers agreed Monday to end Operation Sophia, the bloc’s naval mission in the Mediterranean Sea, and launch a new...
Disgraced religious order tried to get abuse victim to lie
MILAN — The cardinal’s response was not what Yolanda Martínez had expected — or could abide.
Quarantine ends for Germans; Italy to fly citizens from ship
BERLIN — More than 100 Germans evacuated from the hard-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of a new coronavirus outbreak, were set to end their p...
Italy’s Senate to decide whether to lift Salvini’s immunity
ROME — The Italian Senate is deciding Wednesday whether to allow former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to be prosecuted — as he demands to be — for ...
Suter wins 1st super-G, month after maiden downhill triumph
GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — Corinne Suter got her first win in a women’s World Cup super-G on Sunday, a month after winning her first downhill.
Pepper, American sculptor who made Italy home, dies at 97
MILAN — Beverly Pepper, a fixture of the Roman “Dolce Vita” and renowned American sculptor who made Italy her home and backdrop to many of her monumen...
New virus cases in UK, Germany, Italy put Europe total at 31
LONDON — Britain, Germany and Italy announced more cases of the new virus from China on Thursday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Euro...
Experts ponder human error in Italian high-speed train crash
OSPEDALETTO LODIGIANO, Italy — A high-speed passenger train derailed in northern Italy before dawn Thursday, killing two railway workers and injuring ...
Italy, Turkey screen all arriving passengers for coronavirus
ROME — Italy and Turkey said Wednesday they were taking the temperatures of all arriving airline passengers in new prevention measures aimed at haltin...
Nationalists in Rome cheer Brexit, honor Pope John Paul II
ROME — European and American nationalists attending a conference Tuesday in Rome cheered Brexit, warned of left-wing “totalitarianism” and waxed nosta...