CHICAGO, June 16 (UPI) -- Hundreds of stolen Italian antiquities and documents, from 2,500-year-old pottery to a sample of Benito Mussolini's handwriting, have been returned by the FBI.

PREDAPPIO, Italy, April 16 (UPI) -- The hometown of World War II-era Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has banned public display of Fascist symbols and slogans as a tourism-boosting measure.

POTENZA, Italy, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- An Italian political party is offering $1,940 to parents in five cities who name children after World War II-era dictator Benito Mussolini or his wife Rachele.

WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- The most revealing thing in Scott McClellan's memoir trashing his boss and longtime benefactor President George W. Bush is how typical it is of thousands of ambitious people in Washington life.

PISA, Italy, May 28 (UPI) -- Engineers say the Leaning Tower of Pisa is no longer in danger of falling over thanks to completion of a $40 million restoration project.

UPI Almanac for Monday, April 28, 2008.

SALO, Italy, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A Benito Mussolini museum has opened its doors in Salo, Italy, as a reaction to demands from German visitors, a report said.

BERKELY, Calif., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Milton Wolff, the last commander of a U.S. volunteer brigade that fought in the Spanish Civil War, died of heart failure in Berkeley, Calif., at age 92.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- National sensitivities may have broken up a bloc of nationalist parties in the European parliament with the withdrawal of the Greater Romania Party.