German investigators have found excessive levels of cancer-causing dioxin in chicken – the first such confirmation of tainted meat since the discovery that farm animals had eaten contaminated feed, possibly for months.

A BABY was born with suspected brain damage and his mother needed emergency surgery after two doctors began fighting during the delivery in Italy.

A baby was born with suspected brain damage and his mother needed emergency surgery after two doctors began fighting during the delivery in Italy.

ITALIAN police confiscated 70,000 balls of mozzarella in Turin after consumers noticed the milky-white cheese quickly developed a bluish tint when the package was opened, authorities said.

Italy announced its first swine flu victim – a 51-year-old Neapolitan man with chronic heart problems, who died in a Naples hospital this morning.