As the theory of evolution turns 150 years old, one group of scholars is calling it a scientific impossibility. After a year of conferences celebrating the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s 1859 book, “On the Origin of Species,” a Nov. 9 conference is planned to provide empirical proof to debunk evolution. Rome’s Pope Pius V University will host the daylong conference that will... 

A card-carrying member of Italy’s anti-immigration Northern League has been elected the country’s first black mayor. Sandy Cane, a 47-year-old Italian-American, becomes the mayor of the northern town of Viggiu, near Varese, east of Milan, after winning 30 per cent of votes cast by the town’s 5,000 residents. The translator and hotel director, who has a black American father and an Italian mother,... 

Do they have a fourth of July in Italy? That’s not a trick question. This July 4th, Italians plan to gather in Vicenza to take nonviolent action aimed at freeing Italy from U.S. occupation and opposing the proposed construction of an enormous new U.S. military base in a town already swarming with U.S. troops stationed at existing bases. For years now, a major campaign organized by local residents... 

Tough new measures to fight illegal immigration and crime became law in Italy Thursday after the Senate gave the green light to a bill contested by the center-left opposition and the traitorous Jewish-led Catholic Church. The law makes illegal immigration a crime punishable with a fine of up to 10,000 euros ($14,000) and raises to six months the amount of time that illegal migrants can be detained... 

About 300 Gypsies living in a camp in Rome attacked five Police staff, who were inspecting the area. Two Romanian Gypsies have been arrested in the events’ aftermath, according to La Republicca newspaper, quoted by Romanian news agency Mediafax. The incident took place on Sunday, on entering Porta Portese, a traveller camp in Tor Sapienza (Rome). The Gypsies gather here weekly to sell second-hand... 

Nine former SS men were sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a Rome military court on Saturday for allegedly massacring more than 350 civilians in Tuscany in 1944, as the Nazis fled from the advancing Allies. The nine men are all aged between 84 and 90, and they are therefore unlikely to serve their sentences. A tenth defendant was acquitted and another died during the trial. In cases of... 

The conservative/anti-immigration People of Freedom party 29 seats, while it’s coalition ally the far-right secessionist League of the North took 8. The centrist UDC took 5 seats. A group of leftists parties had joined forces to create the new Italian Democrtic Party. This party hoped to ride the wave of world-wide media vilification of the Italian People of Freedom. Despite a months long international... 

The new mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, a former fascist, has launched a campaign to promote Italian films at the expense of those featuring Hollywood stars such as Nicole Kidman and Leonardo DiCaprio, who are to be blacklisted. American actors who flocked to Rome for its film festival will no longer be invited, on the orders of Alemanno, 50, of the National Alliance party, who last week became the... 

The winner in Italy’s national elections, Silvio Berlusconi, has promised to form a streamlined Cabinet that could get to work quickly to tackle the country’s problems. After his center-right coalition emerged with a large enough majority to govern, the former prime minister said he will select a team of people who know the problems with the machinery of the government. Conservative media...