Christine Spolar

Jose Geovanni never lacked for work in Spain. Nine years ago, the transplanted Ecuadoran carpenter found he was a hot commodity. Spain's property market was taking off, and Spain needed...

Spain once wooed and wanted immigrants. Over the last decade, the booming economy sought poor foreigners to come and harvest its bounty of grapes, avocados and oranges. It welcomed waves...

When a state of emergency was declared this summer at the ancient grounds of Pompeii, the move by Italy's government touched off an eruption of media accounts about how the...

First there were fears of funky mozzarella. Then tales of misbegotten wine in Tuscany bedeviled this land of good eating. And now the staff of life is under suspicion: Police...

Religious fervor for Padre Pio, a saint whose body was exhumed this year for display to more than a million pilgrims so far in southern Italy, is expected to rouse...

Alitalia is now looking to a higher power for salvation. Italy's beleaguered air carrier is barely aloft financially, and a government-appointed administrator apparently grasped at help from Pope Benedict XVI...

Italy will pay $5 billion to Libya to make up for a colonization in that country dating back to 1911 -- and hopefully resolve some modern-day problems of rampant African...

The chase is on for 'Ndrangheta -- the increasingly powerful mafia from southern Italy -- and now Canadian authorities have given Italian law enforcement a big hand. Fugitive drug trafficker...

Another Tuscan red wine is being investigated by Italian authorities for possible fraudulent grape mixing, and U.S. trade authorities again are effectively stopping the import of some wine until the...

Water woes spiraled to such depths this year that the top regional environment minister here -- a confirmed agnostic -- confessed to climbing the stony shrine of the Virgin of...