A “circus of horrors” in which children were plunged into piranha tanks and covered with deadly snakes has been smashed by Italian police.
 

Flesh-eating fish were used in circus
Officers raided the circus and arrested three people after being tipped off by worried spectators who were concerned at the treatment of the children.
Besides the flesh-eating piranhas act [...]

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ROME (AP) - Remnants of the first known surviving Roman throne have been discovered in the lava and ash that buried the city of Herculaneum in the first century, archaeologists said Tuesday.
Decorated with ivory bas-reliefs depicting ancient deities, two legs and part of the back of the wooden throne were dug out between October and [...]

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Party girl: Amanda ‘Foxy Knoxy’ Knox at a college celebration in Seattle
This murder of a beautiful girl in Italy is big news in the Euro Media. The American girl involved in this killing is is a sick freak. She might have even been the ringleader as things got out of hand. See this story about [...]

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Mr Sandri was shot in a car when police intervened to break up the brawl. Police said a warning shot may have caught him, but the incident was being investigated.

Italian football fans have reacted violently inside and outside stadiums following the police shooting of a Lazio supporter.
Gabriele Sandri, 26, was shot in what police called [...]

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Nov. 2: Amanda Marie Knox, left, and Raffaele Sollecito, looking on outside the rented house where British student Meredith Kercher was found dead.
PERUGIA, Italy — Italian police on Friday were investigating whether a text message predicting a British exchange student’s death was sent by one of the three people suspected of killing the 21-year-old [...]

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Italy (CNN) — A U.S. Black Hawk military helicopter with 10 people on
board crashed Thursday in northeastern Italy. Police in Treviso said
five people died, but local fire officials said four were killed.
The fire department said two of the injured were still
trapped in the helicopter and the rest had been taken to hospitals, two
in serious [...]

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