Naples - Crisis-torn Naples in Italy is showing solidarity with its citizens by offering "Suspended Coffee Day" on Tuesday, giving help and a little warm comfort where it is needed.

Canadian pop-singer Justin Bieber is in the Philippines where he has launched a worldwide campaign to aid victims of last month's typhoon. Bieber went there after completing his massive 15-month 'Believe' tour with 7 shows in Australia.

Sesto Fiorentino - The luxurious villa near Florence that inspired Carlo Collodi to write "The Adventures of Pinocchio" is up for sale. Anyone with a cool €10.5m can own a little piece of fictional history.

The World Cup draw earlier turned up some shockers, with some of the best teams in the world pitted against each other so early in the tournament.

The draw for the group stages of the World Cup have churned out a number of tricky groups with several top teams set to face off in the group stages of the competition.

A pod of some 50 pilot whales has stranded itself in the Florida Everglades National Park along the Gulf of Mexico. Officials can't say why and already about 10 of the whales have died. Fisherman discovered the pod there on Tuesday.

As the crisis in Libya gets worse it seems the United States and its allies have agreed with at least one way to try and curb the country's current state.

A mafia boss who went missing in 2012 was likely fed alive to pigs, an investigation that was launched into the case revealed.

Although copper remains Chile's largest commodity export (60 percent), food exports from Chile are increasing with several products such as fresh grapes, blueberries and salmon leading exports in world markets.

Subiaco - A gruesome discovery was made recently in an isolated house in Subiaco, Italy. A man's elderly father had died in August 2011 and he hid the body in a sealed room in his house in order to continue collecting his father's pension.

Olbia - In a year of modern-day weird weather the latest tragedy reported is from the Mediterranean island of Sardinia. A deadly cyclone has struck the Italian island, the second largest in the Med, and there are reports at least 18 people have been killed.

Rome - Students concerned about cutbacks to the Italian education budget precipitated a student strike across Italy. There were demonstrations in Rome but also in the north in Turin and Palermo in the south.

The European Central Bank cuts interest rate from 0.50 percent to 0.25 percent. The historically low rate shows E.C.B.’s intentions to save the Euro but may have quickened the abolishment the Euro instead.

Moscow - Two Russian cosmonauts have taken the torch for the Sochi Winter Olympics on a spacewalk as part of the Olympic torch relay. This is the first time any Olympic torch has been on a spacewalk.

A survey of discrimination and hate crimes conducted by the EU's Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) suggests that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe.

There are many stories circulating about popstar Justin Bieber and his time in Brazil on his 'Believe' tour. One has him exiting a brothel covering himself with a sheet. That should be filed under unconfirmed and, given his status with women, unlikely.

Bergamo - The 13-year-old boy had been spending too much time playing games on his Playstation, and not enough time studying. When he received a bad grade at school, his father destroyed his Playstation. The boy was so upset he jumped from the balcony.

The trial of Francesco Schettino, the captain of Italian cruise ship, the Costa Concordia, has added a romantic element. Domnica Cemortan, a Moldovan dancer, admitted at his trial that she was his lover, and was on the bridge when the ship hit a reef.

Florence - Three-month-old Ippo is the rare progeny of a zebra and donkey, living in an exotic animal shelter in the center of Florence, Italy. Cute as a button, he is drawing the crowds and even Disney wants to make a cartoon character of him.

Borgo San Dalmazzo - The corpse of a 68-year-old tarot-reading woman has been found in the bedroom closet of a villa. The body was wrapped in bed sheets and was sitting upright in a chair, with her left hand resting on her knee and her right hand raised in blessing.