Violence broke out during the day in Rome as tens of thousands nicknamed “the indignant” marched in several European cities in protest against capitalism and austerity measures. The violence is now being used by the conservative Berlusconi government as ammunition against the political left despite the evidence that it was a very select few who were aiming...

In protest of a proposed law that would allow any individual on the Internet to subjectively report offensive or disagreeable content on a website such as a blog and have it removed regardless of its validity within 48 hours, Wikipedia had hidden all of its Italian pages. Wikipedia announced that all of its entries in Italian would “remain hidden until the discussion...

Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco (pictured), who made a clear but carefully veiled criticism of Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who is still embroiled in a scandal for allegedly having sex with a minor at one of his “sex parties” at his estate and allegedly boasting that “11 women make a queue” to have sex with him, again subtly criticized...