A raft of arrests Tuesday shed new light on the murder of Giovanni Falcone but also raised fresh calls for the missing piece of the jigsaw, the possible role of people outside Cosa Nostra hostile to the anti-Mafia prosecutor and his fellow martyr Paolo Borsellino, to be found.

Italy's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement chose a television journalist as its candidate for president on Tuesday and hinted it could co-operate with center left if she were elected.Choosing a successor to President Giorgio Napolitano, whose term ends on May 15, is a vital step toward resolving the stalemate created by an inconclusive general election in February that left no party able to form a government.

The Italian authorities said Tuesday that they had frozen assets worth €1.8 billion belonging to the Japanese investment bank Nomura in connection with an inquiry into whether it helped the Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena hide huge losses from regulators and shareholders.

Law enforcement and Congressional sources told ABC News today there is a leading theory that at least one of the bombs that exploded during the Boston Marathon Monday may have been packed into a pressure cooker, a tactic found in rudimentary bomb-making instructions widely available online.

 Environmental activism — like any other attempt at social change — is a slog. Victories are often tempered by setbacks and even the most clear cut wins can seem provisional. As David Brower, the founder of Earth Island Journal, famously said, speaking about how environmental defense is a constant struggle: “All of our victories are temporary, and all of our defeats are permanent.” The effort for sustainability will always be a work in progress.

 The director said he contacted Italian actor and auteur Nanni Moretti about his idea, but Moretti didn't respond. "He won't be in my film," Kaurismäki said.

 According to the report on child well-being in the developed world, the third largest eurozone economy ranks 22 among 29 countries. In Italy, 17 percent of children live under the poverty line. This means that 1.8 million children in Italy do not have regular access to basic necessities such as food. 

 Instead the huge palace, built by the Bourbon rulers of Naples to rival the more famous chateau outside Paris, has been branded a disgrace, amid a drastic fall in tourist numbers and accusations of chronic neglect.

 Italian lawmakers will begin the election of a new president on 18 April as the legislature seeks to end a political impasse that’s left the country without a new government six weeks after elections.

 In the final event before returning to San Francisco this summer, the America’s Cup will hold their final event of the World Series in Naples, Italy beginning Wednesday and running through April 21.

 The 19th-century brick building that houses theItalian American Museum  in the Little Italy neighborhood of Manhattan radiates an Old World intimacy, with its tin ceiling and its proximity to shops that still sell slices of pink prosciutto and balls of snow-white mozzarella.