Italian police have found Amanda Knox’s ex-boyfriend near Italy’s border with Slovenia and Austria after he and the American student were convicted for a second time in the death of British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox said she will only be extradited to Italy "kicking and screaming", after judges reinstated her murder conviction for the death of British student Meredith Kercher.

American student Amanda Knox is waiting half a world away for the third Italian court verdict over the 2007 killing of her British room-mate, 21-year-old Meredith Kercher.

A prosecutor has urged an Italian court to take steps to make sure that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito would serve their sentences, if they are convicted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox should be convicted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher, whose tragic death was in danger of being overlooked, an Italian appeal court has been told.

An Italian appeals court has been urged to re-convict Amanda Knox for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher and undo the alleged mistakes of the hearing that freed her.

Amanda Knox’s Italian ex-boyfriend has arrived at an appeals court in Florence, Italy, to make a statement in the pair’s third murder trial over the death of Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox’s second appeal trial has agreed to additional DNA tests on the weapon presumed to have murdered her British housemate Meredith Kercher.

US student Amanda Knox’s second appeals trial to determine her role in the murder of her British housemate is under way in Italy in her absence.

Amanda Knox has defended her decision not to return to Italy to face retrial over the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox will not return to Italy for a new appeals trial over the 2007 killing of her British roommate, her lawyer has said.

The acquittal of accused murderer Amanda Knox was full of “deficiencies, contradictions and illogical” conclusions Italy’s high court has ruled, ordering a fresh look at all the evidence to determine whether she did kill her flatmate Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox has claimed that what happened to her when she went on trial for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy could have happened to anyone.

The Italian presiding appellate judge who acquitted American student Amanda Knox in the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher says he remains certain there is no evidence of her guilt.

A lawyer for Amanda Knox said the US college student was “ready to fight” after Italy’s top criminal court overturned her acquittal and ordered a retrial for the murder of her British room-mate Meredith Kercher.

Italy’s highest criminal court has today overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox over the murder of her roommate, and ordered a new trial.

Italy's highest criminal court has overturned the acquittal of Amanda Knox for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher and ordered a new trial.

Italy’s highest court will issue a decision today on whether to overturn American student Amanda Knox’s acquittal in the murder of her British room-mate.

Amanda Knox is “very anxious” as Italy’s top criminal court hears arguments from prosecutors appealing over her acquittal of the murder of her roommate, a lawyer said today.

Amanda Knox’s slander trial in Italy has been postponed until next year because the judge is busy with another trial.

The Italian appeals court that cleared Amanda Knox in the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher gave the reasons for its ruling today.

Amanda Knox has hired a top lawyer, previously used by Tony Blair, in order to negotiate a book deal.

One of the jurors who overturned Amanda Knox’s murder conviction has said he was never convinced by the “conjecture” of the prosecution’s case and that he believed the US student and her co-defendant simply did not kill her British roommate.

Raffaele Sollecito, the former boyfriend of Amanda Knox, has been invited by her father to visit them in the United States.

Amanda Knox’s father says she has not slept much since arriving home in Seattle on Tuesday after four years in an Italian prison.

Amanda Knox, who was cleared of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, today paid tribute to the people who supported and believed in her during her four-year ordeal.

Meredith Kercher’s family vowed today to lend prosecutors their full support if they fight the acquittal of Amanda Knox for the murder of the British student.

Amanda Knox has left Rome aboard a London-bound plane en route to the United States.

Amanda Knox is due to fly home to Seattle after walking free from the Italian prison where she spent four years for Meredith Kercher's murder.

Amanda Knox was cleared tonight after a court overturned her conviction for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox made a heartfelt plea for freedom today telling an appeal court she was innocent of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Raffaele Sollecito today denied accusing his ex-girlfriend, Amanda Knox, of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

Amanda Knox has arrived in court in Italy where she will make a final plea for freedom.

When a fresh-faced Amanda Knox arrived in Perugia four years ago, she was one of thousands of American students enjoying being young, free and single away from home.

Amanda Knox was an innocent girl “crucified” in the media, a defence lawyer argued today as a judge said the verdict in her appeal against her murder conviction would come on Monday.

Amanda Knox is an innocent girl who has been the victim of a “tragic judicial case”, a defence lawyer said in final arguments in her appeals trial.

Convicted killer Amanda Knox is actually a loving young woman rather like the cartoon character Jessica Rabbit, a defence lawyer claimed today.

Amanda Knox, convicted of killing British student Meredith Kercher, has been dismissed a lying, sex-loving she-devil by the man she falsely accused of the murder.

Italian prosecutors have asked an appeals court to increase Amanda Knox’s prison sentence to life for the murder of her British roommate Meredith Kercher.

Prosecutors seek life in prison for Amanda Knox, co-defendant in appeals trial in Italy, for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.

An Italian prosecutor is firing back at independent forensic experts who reviewed – and trashed – the DNA evidence used to convict American student Amanda Knox of murder.

The father of Amanda Knox says he is hopeful that a review of DNA evidence will help his daughter overturn her murder conviction, as prosecutors prepare their closing arguments in the appeals case of the American student on trial in Italy.

An Italian appeal court has rejected a prosecution request for new DNA tests in the trial of Amanda Knox for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher, saying it would be unnecessary.

The forensic expert whose evidence helped convict Amanda Knox of murdering British student Meredith Kercher today defended her work after a review criticised her methods.