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Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini (right) welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome during the second meeting of the Contact Group on Libya on Thursday, May 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)
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** FILE ** Col. Moammar Gadhafi (left) and President Obama are pictured during the G-8/G-5 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, in July 2009. (AP Photo/Michael Gottschalk/Pool, File)
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A woman holds a placard with the words "Magistrates, don't give up, we are with you" during a protest outside a courthouse in Milan, Italy, on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. The trial of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on charges he paid for sex with an underage prostitute, then tried to use his influence to cover it up was adjourned shortly after it opened in Milan on Wednesday. Berlusconi did not attend the hearing. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
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Libyan Interim National Transitional Council Foreign Minister Ali Al Issawi (left) and Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini show accord during a joint news conference in Rome on Monday. (Associated Press)
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Libyan National Transitional Council's Foreign Minister Ali al-Essawi talks during a press conference in Rome on Monday with Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini. Italy on Monday recognized the opposition Libyan National Transitional Council as the only legitimate voice in the north African nation, the Italian foreign minister said. Rome also dismissed a diplomatic push in Europe by Moammar Gadhafi's government to discuss an end to the fighting. Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said that any solution to the Libyan conflict involved the departure of Moammar Gadhafi and his family. (Associated Press)
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Illustration by De Angelis, Rome, Italy
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Amanda Knox looks up at a police officer as she sits in court in Perugia, central Italy, Saturday, March 26, 2011, during her appeals trial. Knox was convicted of murdering her British roommate in Perugia, Meredith Kercher, and sentenced to 26 years in prison. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici)
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** FILE ** An F-16 jet fighter flies over the NATO airbase in Aviano, Italy. (Associated Press)
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A detail from a mosaic fountain, unearthed after the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius that wiped out the Roman city of Pompeii more than 2000 years ago, is part of a new exhibition from Italy at Discovery Times Square, previewed on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. The exhibition opens Friday and runs through Sept 5. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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In this taken Monday, Jan. 17, 2011 and made available Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, Karima El Mahrough nicknamed Ruby gestures in Milan, Italy. Karima El Mahrough, the Moroccan teenager at the center of a prostitution scandal that has sent Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi to trial, says she has done nothing wrong and that "all the gold in the world'' could not compensate her for the hurt she has suffered. In an e-mail exchange with The Associated Press on Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011, the woman nicknamed Ruby lamented that she has been "treated as a prostitute by all the Italian and foreign media.'' (AP Photo/Fabrice Thuile, Lapresse) ITALY OUT
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Edda Mellas, left, and Curt Knox, the parents of Amanda Knox, an American student convicted of murder in Italy, arrive at a hearing in Perugia's court, Italy, on Nov. 28, 2009. A lawyer said Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 the parents of Knox have been ordered to stand trial for claiming that Italian police abused their daughter. (AP Photo/Stefano Medici, file)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A group of women hold a poster with a photo of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi behind bars during a protest in Milan, Italy, on Sunday. Thousands of women turned out in 200 Italian cities to denounce what they say is Mr. Berlusconi's debasing of women. Prosecutors want to try Mr. Berlusconi for allegedly paying a 17-year-old Moroccan girl for sex. Paying for prostitution with a minor is a crime in Italy. Mr. Berlusconi and the teenager have denied the allegation.
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In this photo released by World Press Photo, the 1st Prize General News Single of the World Press Photo 2011 contest by Riccardo Venturi, Italy, Contrasto, shows the old Iron Market burning, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Riccardo Venturi/Contrasto)
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In this photo provided by World Press Photo, the 2nd Prize Nature Stories of the 2011 World Press Photo Contest by Stefano Unterthiner, Italy, for National Geographic magazine shows Whooper Swans at dawn, Hokkaido, Japan, Jan. 2010. (AP Photo/Stefano Unterthiner/National Geographic Magazine)
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In this photo provided by World Press Photo, the 2nd Prize Arts and Entertainment Single of the 2011 World Press Photo Contest by Davide Monteleone, Italy, Contrasto for The New York Times Style Magazine of Milan Fashion Week: Valeria Marini show. (AP Photo/Davide Monteleone/Contrasto for The New York Times Style Magazine)
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Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki makes a forehand return to Italy's Francesca Schiavone during their quarterfinal match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Andrew Brownbill)
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New Orleans Hornets guard Marcus Thornton (5) drives to the basket around Toronto Raptors center Andrea Bargnani, of Italy, in the first half of an NBA basketball game in New Orleans, Monday, Jan. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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** FILE ** In this on Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, file photo, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi listens during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, not pictured, during the 28th government consultations of both nations at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Shane McMillan, File)
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FILE - In this Monday April 22, 2002 file photo Italian national team coach Giovanni Trapattoni, left, listens to former national team coach Enzo Bearzot at the "The Golden Bench" (Panchina D'Oro) awards in Florence, central Italy, Monday April 22, 2002. Italy's 1982 World Cup-winning coach Enzo Bearzot died in Milan aged 83 on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010 (AP Photo/Fabrizio Giovannozzi)
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FILE - This undated file photo shows Italy's 1982 national soccer team coach Enzo Bearzot. Italian media have announced that Italy's 1982 World Cup-winning coach Enzo Bearzot died in Milan aged 83 on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2010. Bearzot had been seriously ill for several years and will be survived by his wife Luisa, son Glauco and daughter Cinzia. (AP Photo/Lapresse, file) ITALY OUT
