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ASSISI, ITALY — Kate Middleton and Mitt Romney have learned the lesson that what occurs at a French villa or a party with rich folk should be assumed to be no more private than a tweet. But while the Duchess of Cambridge commanded sympathy, Mr. Romney found himself on the defensive. This is in part because the leaked tape of the Republican presidential candidate speaking to wealthy donors had a feel of authenticity. There was a fluency that sometimes eludes Mr. Romney when he is speaking in public.

The Fiat 500 made a splashy entrance into the U.S. market, but its sales haven’t exactly taken off. CEO Sergio Marchionne told us: "It's no one's fault but mine. There weren't enough dealers, and the 500 alone wasn't the right car to establish the brand -- it's physically too small to be a big player.”
 

The island of Pantelleria sits 58 miles southwest of Sicily, which doesn't seem very significant until you realize it also sits 45 miles from Tunisia, making this Italian island closer to North Africa than to Italy.

On a chilly morning in February 2003 as he was walking to his mosque, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr was whisked off the Via Guerzoni in Milan, tossed into the back of a van and driven to a NATO air base in Aviano, Italy. From there, Abu Omar, as he’s commonly known, was flown by Learjet to Germany and then to Cairo where he was allegedly tortured for seven months, according to Amnesty International, which has an open case file on his kidnapping.