ANSA. Italian gay groups on Tuesday slammed Vatican No.2 Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone for claiming there was a link between homosexuality and paedophilia. (Read the article)

AFP. Afghan security forces were on Sunday questioning nine medical workers, including three Italians, after what officials said was a plot to kill a provincial governor.

The men were detained on Saturday after suicide vests, home-made bombs, guns and ammunition were found in a storeroom at a hospital in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, run by the Italian charity Emergency. (Read the Article)

World Net Daily. The long-awaited public exhibit of the Shroud of Turin, considered by many to be the actual burial cloth of Jesus, has opened in Turin, Italy, and as many as two million pilgrims are expected to look at the bloodstained cloth.

It's on display for the first time this third millennium – and for the first time in 12 years – and it is the first public unveiling since a 2002 restoration removed the 30 patches sewn into the cloth in 1534 when the Poor Clare nuns repaired the damage from a 1532 fire that nearly destroyed the artifact.(Read the Article)

New York Times. An Italian judge convicted three Google employees in February of violating privacy laws because the Internet company had sought to profit from a video of an autistic boy being bullied by classmates, according to a judicial reasoning in the case released on Monday.That verdict was the first to hold the company’s employees criminally responsible for content posted on its system. It prompted outrage on the part of the American ambassador to Italy and widespread accusations that the Italian judiciary was trying to muzzle a free Internet. (Read the Article)