COSENZA - Francesco Strangio, a fugitive of the Calabrian organised crime group 'Ndrangheta, was arrested Thursday night by the police force of Reggio Calabria and Cosenza. He was hiding in a flat on the top floor of a condominium in Rose, a small town in the Cosentino area.

 Strangio now faces a sentence of 14 years in prison for international drug trafficking.

VATICAN CITY – British Cardinal John Henry Newman, a theologian, scholar and one of the highest profile figures in British Catholicism, is to be made a saint after Pope Francis approved a miracle ascribed to him.

 The miracle involved the healing of a pregnant American woman from a life-threatening hemorrhage that also risked the life of her baby in May 2013. The Church claims that the recovery had no scientific explanation and occurred immediately after Newman’s intercession.

ROME - “The trade war, political uncertainty in Europe and tighter financial conditions are hurting economic development, and we have downgraded expectations for growth in the world economy this year and next,” says Nordea’s Group Chief Economist, Helge J. Pedersen. “In the Nordics, the focus is on higher policy rates and their likely impact on each country. The role of household debt and its effect on the housing market will not be trivial, and interest rate sensitivities pose downside risks to the Nordic economies, be it at varying degrees.”

ROME - Once, walking along the Gloucester Road, my habitually elegantly-dressed father was accosted by a bloke, who had stumbled into the cold out of The Zetland Arms, with the words, “Got a light, mate?” Pausing only to wink conspiratorially at me, my father fished his solid-gold Dunhill lighter out of his pocket, cupped it between his hands against the winter wind and, as the man approached, drew the lighter, it’s sputtering flame, and the man’s face toward him; until they were virtually nose to nose. “Yes,” said my father, in his still-thick Polish accent, “I do have a light.