The Italian court trying the captain of the Costa Concordia has heard grim details of how the 32 victims of the shipwreck drowned, some after diving or falling into the sea from the capsized cruise liner when lifeboats were no longer accessible.

The family of Amanda Knox, convicted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher, has asked lawyers to begin an appeal after reviewing the Italian court’s motivation for the verdict.

The Italian court trying an American student and her former boyfriend for the murder of a British woman has inspected the apartment house in Perugia where the victim was stabbed to death in 2007.

A police officer told the Meredith Kercher murder trial today that one the students accused of killing her was carrying a knife when he was taken to a police station immediately after the killing.

THE administrators of Parmalat, the huge Italian food company that collapsed in 2003, have lost their case to oversee the liquidation of the company’s Irish subsidiary, Eurofood.

A suspect in the failed July 21 London bombings who was arrested in Rome appealed against an Italian court’s extradition ruling today, his lawyer said.