An Italian judge said he convicted three Google bosses of violating the privacy of an autistic teenager because the internet giant tried to profit from an online video of him being bullied.

The pope greeted the faithful in St Peter’s Basilica amid new security measures today following the Christmas Eve scare.

AN Italian judge yesterday convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme in the war on terrorism.

The first trial involving the CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme opened in Italy today, without the presence of any of the 26 American defendants accused of kidnapping an Egyptian terror suspect.