LONDON-Seven time champion Roger Federer is digesting an epic second-round Wimbledon defeat 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-5), 7-5, 7-6 (7-5) by Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky ending a glorious personal history span on grass. Third seed Federer who had been bidding for a record eighth title at the All England club was stunned in three hours of drama with the rank outsider on Centre Court, his "home" since his first grand slam title a decade ago.

ROME– Michael T Clark, a U.S. political scientist embroiled in a UN nepotism scandal, has joined the growing army of advisers to FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, FAO sources say.

ROVERETO -- That Italy's strength in modern art lies in its smaller towns is borne out by the
MART museum in Rovereto, which lies half way between Milan and Venice.
 It is a doughty rival of Italy's other major contemporary art museum,
the MAXXI of Rome.

The Museum itself, by the contemporary Swiss-Italian architect Mario
Botta, is a fine example of integrating a new structure amid 18th
century buildings.  The glass cupola over the entrance courtyard has
the dimensions of the Rome Pantheon's cupola.

VATICAN CITY- One hundred days after Pope Francis assumed the papacy “We Are Church,” a liberal Catholic opposition movement urged the Argentinian pontiff to usher in reforms to decentralize church power.