A tortured Nicolas Cage captivated audiences at the Venice film festival on Friday with his performance as a tormented ex-con who seeks redemption in David Gordon Green’s brutal American South drama J

Archaeologists on Tuesday unearthed a skeleton in a rare state of preservation in Florence in what they believe may be a crucial step towards unravelling the mystery of the identity of the woman with

ANIELLO ARENA, the winsome Neapolitan in the running for best actor award at Cannes, is a former Mafia hitman serving a life sentence who got his lucky break in a prison theatre company.

A US art detective says he has proof that a garish terracotta statue found discarded in a mouldy cardboard box in an Italian antiques shop is an original model by Michelangelo for his famous Pieta.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will go on trial in April over allegations that he paid a 17-year-old girl for sex and abused his power by trying to get her cleared of theft, a judge ruled Tuesday.