ROME (Reuters) - The search for lucre was filthy indeed for six Italians jailed this week over a bid to burrow up from the sewers of Naples into luxury shops and make off with jewels worth hundreds of thousands of euros......»»

ROME (Reuters) - The mayor of a small town outside Naples had to shut down most municipal offices after police arrested 23 of his staff on Tuesday in the latest revelations of absenteeism in Italy's public sector......»»

Life may give you lemons. It may even give you goats. And, sometimes, if you're really lucky, it'll give you a piñata.  Piñatagrams is one such giver of pinatas! The company, which launched in January as per Twitter, will send an a.....»»

Dessert is coming. In the time-lapse video above, Italian fruit carver extraordinaire Valeriano Fatica transforms an ordinary watermelon into a totally sweet bust of the Night King from "Game of Thrones." Fatica says this particular carving took.....»»

Someone needs to get to the bottom of this. A suspected jewel thief in Konya, Turkey, has been arrested after stolen rings and necklaces were found in his rectum during an X-ray exam, police said. The suspect, who is identified as "Ö.A.," was ar.....»»

Just when you thought wingsuit base jumping couldn't possibly get more extreme, Italian athlete, thrill-seeker and model Roberta Mancino decided to toss in a boiling lake of lava.  In a promotional video posted Thursday by GoPro, Mancino is seen.....»»

Are Elijah Wood and Daniel Radcliffe actually the same person? A gif showing the “Harry Potter” actor morphing into Frodo Baggins from “Lord of the Rings” is freaking millions of internet users out.  They a.....»»

An Italian court has acquitted a divorced father who offered to pay child support with pizza. When Nicola Toso split from his wife Nicoletta Zuin in 2002, he agreed to pay child support for their daughter, who was then 6 years old, according to the Daily .....»»

LISBON (Reuters) - Saddled with back-taxes and other debts, an Italian restaurateur in Portugal left the pizzas aside, took a plastic replica pistol and held up a dozen banks to pay the tax man, court officials and local media said on Wednesday......»»

A craft beer company has brewed up a brilliant idea. Saltwater Brewery in Delray Beach, Florida, has created edible six-pack rings that feed, rather than kill, marine life if the rings end up in the ocean and an animal happens to eat it. The rings are cre.....»»

A U.K. woman's £100 cheque ($187) to a former colleague as a wedding gift was not as gratefully received as she thought it would be. In fact, the bride wrote her an e-mail letting her know her "contribution didn't seem to match the warmth of your good wi.....»»

What do you think about men wearing shorts? It's a complicated question, as it turns out. We sent an e-mail out to our office to gauge opinions, and it set off a debate. "It is never acceptable for men to wear shorts," Zach Carter, a senior reporter .....»»

A Los Angeles woman who once aspired to be a real-life "giraffe woman" is tired of sticking her neck out. For five years, Sydney V. Smith had tried to extend the length of her neck by encasing it in 15 copper rings. "I got it up to 9 or 10 inches," Smith .....»»

As if learning to speak a foreign tongue wasn't tough enough, there's also the body language to master. That's where Sergio Solazzo, a tour guide in Italy, comes in.  He was recently filmed explaining to a group of American tourists how his fellow co.....»»

Excuse me, but your cat is scaring the postman. Excuse me, but your cat is scaring the postman......»»

An alleged mafia chief's appetite for pizza has cost him his freedom. An alleged mafia chief's appetite for pizza has cost him his freedom......»»

AKAROA, New Zealand (AP) -- The wedding rings were made of pasta, the ceremony was held on a pirate boat, and when it came time for the kiss, the bride and groom slurped up either end of a noodle until their lips met.........»»

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Police in west Texas are searching for a woman seen in a surveillance video at a funeral home in Odessa stealing a ring from the body of an 88-year-old in an open casket......»»

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Police in west Texas are searching for a woman seen in a surveillance video at a funeral home in Odessa stealing a ring from the body of an 88-year-old in an open casket......»»

LONDON (AP) -- A tough Siamese cat named Cupcake has survived eight days cooped up in a box after accidentally being sent through the mail by her British owners.........»»