An 80-year-old Italian man forced to leave the United States after 55 years of illegal residence lived at Rome Fiumicino airport for three weeks because his Italian documents had expired.

Some 49 percent of young unemployed Italians looking for work would be willing to take jobs as street sweepers, a report said on Tuesday.

Violent tornadoes swept through towns just south of Oklahoma City Monday afternoon, killing at least 91 people, including at least 20 children.

Two Poles carrying out seasonal work in Germany were beaten by locals for a theft they did not commit, the newspaper Markische Oderzeitung has reported.

One of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday in Oklahoma turned homes in a trailer park near Oklahoma City into splinters and rubble and sent frightened residents along a 100-mile corridor scurrying for shelter.

After Angelina Jolie's announcement last week that she had a preventative double mastectomy, there has been a media frenzy discussing the breast cancer gene BRCA1, what to do if you've got it and how much it costs to find out.

Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune Only Teardrops. There was tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine.

One single ticket in Florida has matched all the numbers to win the highest Powerball jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5 million, lottery officials said early Sunday.

Human cloning has been used to produce early embryos, marking a "significant step" for medicine, say US scientists. The cloned embryos were used as a source of stem cells, which can make new heart muscle, bone, brain tissue or any other type of cell in the body.

In France there is a dispute over the introduction of English as the language of instruction in higher education.

Poles who are interested in obtaining U.S. citizenship can have it by investing $500,000 in the United States as part of a government program called EB-5.

The largest increase in baggage fees is by Ryanair. The airline's charge will go up from 1st of June 2013.

The Boston bomb fiend blamed the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the deadly April 15 terror attack in a note written on the wall of his hiding spot during a massive manhunt, according to a new report.

Cliff Kluge, an antiques dealer from Georgia, told ABC news that had found the 1943 recipe in an old box of letters he bought at an estate sale around four years ago for about $100.