ROME, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The popularity of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and many members of his Cabinet rose in October.

NAPLES, Italy, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Italy's Camorra has put a hit out on Roberto Saviano, the journalist who wrote about the crime syndicate in his popular book "Gomorrah," sources told ANSA.

GENOA, Italy, July 15 (UPI) -- Italian activists say they're dismayed by what they call lenient sentences given to police accused of torturing arrested 2001 Group of Eight summit protesters.

ROME, May 9 (UPI) -- Italians have more confidence in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi than in his government as a whole, a poll indicated Friday.

BERLIN, April 17 (UPI) -- Italian premier-to-be Silvio Berlusconi has vowed to boost Italy's economy and fight crime, but he will also have to convince governments across Europe that he will be able to work with, rather than against them.

ROME, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- A leading Roman topography expert said a grotto found under the home of Emperor Augustus in the Italian capital is not the historical Lupercal cave.

BEIJING, July 26 (UPI) -- China's official Catholic group said the Vatican can normalize relations with China if it ends ties with Taiwan and allows internal appointment of bishops.

ROME, March 22 (UPI) -- The Italian government said it has exchanged five Taliban prisoners for an Italian journalist kidnapped in southern Afghanistan.

ROME, March 20 (UPI) -- An Italian journalist held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two weeks says he was forced to witness the death of his Afghan driver.