ROME- A doctor in Aosta used a CAT scan after hours to save his cat, who had fallen six stories from his apartment building.
Dr. Fanelli works in radiology and interventional neuroradiology at the Parini Regional Hospital in Aosta. After there were no more appointments scheduled on Jan. 27, Fanelli used a CAT scan to save his cat, Athena, who was “between life and death.”
JERUSALEM/ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau appealed today for an increase in international support to boost humanitarian assistance for millions of people in Gaza as they seek to rebuild their lives.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has bronchitis, the Holy See press office said in a statement.
Due to his respiratory illness the pontiff will operate on Friday and Saturday out of the Santa Marta guesthouse, Francis' Vatican residence.
Usually the pope holds his audiences at the Apostolic Palace — the usual papal living space, which the leader of the Roman Catholic Church turned down for a no-frills room in Casa Santa Marta in 2013.
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ROME – It has been confirmed that after a helicopter crash Tuesday in Parma, near the Castle of Castelguelfo, owned by the Rovagnati family, who made their fortune producing cooked ham, that Lorenzo Rovagnati, 41, along with his two pilots has died.
The businessman had been married to Federica Sironi for 6 years, who is currently expecting their third child.
ROME – WFP staff were bewildered this week to receive a memo on urgent “corporate efficiency measures” from chief of staff Meghan ‘chopper’ Latcovich rather than Executive Director Cindy McCain who was heading to Washington, evidently to determine whether the Trump administration will allow her to remain in the post as head of the hunger-fighting agency, diplomatic sources said.
“Strange that 'Chopper Pilot' should write this,” a senior WFP executive said of the memo, speaking to the Insider on condition he not be named.
ROME - Two men were killed with a firearm in an ambush in the Piscinola quarter Tuesday evening in a suspected gangland killing, say Neapolitan Police this morning.
The victims were Salvatore Avolio, 32 and Francesco Abenante, 34, who were riding a scooter on the via Vicenzo Janfolla II at 6:15 p.m., according to reports.
ROME – A Georgian national has been stopped by the police, who they believe is responsible for a fire in one of the rooms of the Ciampino control tower Wednesday morning, say police sources.
The man, who had been in Italy for a few days, was not known to the Police before the incident, said police sources.
The fire, had led to the removal of the air-traffic personnel from the tower due to the smoke, momentarily suspending departures and arrivals, while the smoke cleared.
ROME — A Veneto councillor filed a complaint against Donald Trump Junior for allegedly shooting a protected species of duck in the Venetian lagoon.
A six-minute video released by Field Ethos — a mixed-media site which bills itself as "the premier lifestyle publication for the unapologetic man" — shows Trump Jr., the journal's founder and publisher, and his entourage trawling the Venetian lagoon in a motorboat and full camouflage.
ROME - A family of four, who were amongst a group of 92 people rescued from a boat in the Mediterranean Sea, near Malta, lost a child on the journey.
