ITALIANS have been left shocked by a ferocious assault on Franciscan monks by hooded thugs at a monastery in the foothills of the Alps, which has been compared to incidents seen in the film A Clockwork Orange
BELGIAN authorities have warned people living close to a medical laboratory of contamination risks following a radioactive iodine leak last weekend, an incident first considered as without danger
ZIMBABWE`S president Robert Mugabe has handed the country`s only Olympic medallist in Beijing a $US100,000 cash reward for her performance at the games