An overwhelming stench filled the air as forensic experts in white pantsuits and masks mingled with priests in black clerical garb during the exhumation of a reputed Italian mobster from the crypt of a Roman basilica.

The scene Monday outside the church of Sant'Apollinare was hectic, with television cameras jostling for views inside the chapel and the adjacent courtyard of the Opus Dei-run Pontifical Holy Cross University, where forensic vans came and went.

The chaotic scenes were part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's most enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of the teenage daughter of one of its employees.

Medical experts took samples from the remains of Enrico De Pedis and removed boxes of old bones from the nearby ossuary, as part of the investigation into whether Emanuela Orlandi may have been buried alongside him, said a De Pedis family lawyer.

Ms. Orlandi was 15 when she disappeared in 1983 after leaving her family's Vatican City apartment to go to a music lesson in Rome. Her father was a lay employee of the Holy See.

Mr. De Pedis, a member of Rome's Magliana mob, was killed in 1990. His onetime girlfriend has reportedly told prosecutors he kidnapped Ms. Orlandi. In 2005, an anonymous caller told a call-in TV show the answer to the girl's disappearance lies in his tomb.

Put the money in the pocketbook, and no one gets hurt.Lady criminals are staking their claim in the face of recent economic strains, with one in 10 bank heists in the U.S. being pulled by women. The Daily Beast reports the number of female driven robberies has doubled over the past decade, unable to avoid the line: "Why today's Bonnies aren't waiting for a Clyde."

A week ago, the FBI took suspected femme-fatale Johanna Quish into custody. She's believed to be responsible for a string of bank robberies committed over the past month in the Greater Boston area. Quish is the latest in a trend that's turning a few heads, and raking in a whole new batch of bank-robbing monikers.

Among them are the 'Barbie Bandits'--Heather Johnston and Ashley Miller--who met while dancing at the same strip club. They gained notoriety in 2007 after holding up a Bank of America branch in Georgia. Then there is Candice R. Martinez, aka the 'Cell Phone Bandit,' who knocked over a Wachovia, three years before the bank was acquired by Wells Fargo, in 2006. She stole upwards of $40,000, reportedly chatting on the phone with her boyfriend the entire time.

There's the 'Bad Hair Bandit,' who became famous for her ratty wigs, one of which she donned while holding up a US Bank, a division of USBancorp, in 2010. She would feature many more badly placed hair pieces over the 20 subsequent robberies committed before her 2011 arrest. The Starlet Bandit donned a wig as well, along with sunglasses, making sure she looked the part while robbing a Los Angeles Citibank in 2010, her last in a string of ten local heists before being caught.

Canada, Toronto - Bell Mobility and its parent company, BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE) have been served with notice of a $100-million class-action lawsuit alleging that expiry dates on its pre-paid wireless services are illegal.

The suit alleges the practice is contrary to Ontario's Consumer Protection Act and the pre-paid wireless services should be treated as gift cards without an expiry date under the act.

The suit is being handed by the Toronto law firm of Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP on behalf of Celia Sankar of Elliot Lake, Ont.

Sankar, founder of the DiversityCanada Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes social justice, is a Bell Mobility pre-paid wireless customer who has had her credit balance seized on two occasions.

Canada - B.C. will drop the HST and return to an "improved" PST next year with all previous exemptions, Finance Minister Kevin Falcon announced on Monday in Victoria.

The legislation introduced by Falcon Monday includes some significant changes to the old tax, but only a few basic exemptions - such as those food and fuel - were contained in the bill.

Falcon promised those would be included in regulations to be introduced in the fall.

"As promised, on April 1, 2013 consumers will only pay PST on those goods and services that were subject to PST before the implementation of the HST. All permanent PST exemptions will be re-implemented," said Falcon.

"There will be no PST on purchases like food, restaurant meals, bicycles, gym memberships, movie tickets or for personal services like haircuts, just as it was previously."

For business, there are a number of changes that are being introduced in the legislation, including an online system that will allow businesses to track their PST information and remit payments.

A founder of Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay will take his case to Europe's top court after the Supreme Court in Sweden refused to hear his appeal, his lawyer said Monday.

"We now see no other solution but to take this case on to the European Court of Justice," Jonas Nilsson, who represents Fredrik Neij, wrote in an opinion piece in Sweden's paper of reference Dagens Nyheter.

Neij was originally sentenced to a year in prison by a lower court, but an appeals court in late 2010 shortened his sentence to 10 months.

The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde and key financier Carl Lundstroem were sentenced to eight and four months respectively, and the trio was ordered to pay a total of 46 million kronor (5.1 million euros, $6.6 million) in damages for copyright infringement to the music and movie industry.

The number of people under 30 who committed suicide last year over job-hunting futility hit 150 as the employment rate for college graduates sank to a record-low 91 percent, and the jobless rate for youths was nearly double the national average, the National Police Agency said Sunday.

The suicides were around 2.5 times worse than in 2007, when the NPA began tracking such data, but down slightly from 159 in 2010, it said.

Vulnerable children as young as 10 in Northern Ireland are being sexually exploited in the same way as the girls in the notorious Rochdale grooming case, a leading charity has said.

Last week nine men who ran a child sexual exploitation ring in the Lancashire town were jailed for plying youngsters as young as 13 with drink and drugs, so they could "pass them around" for sex.

Judge Gerald Clifton said the men treated the girls "as though they were worthless and beyond respect".

Jacqui Montgomery-Devlin, manager of Barnardo's Safe Choices, told the Belfast Telegraph sexual exploitation is happening in "every town and city across Northern Ireland".

She explained most of the girls she deals with are aged between 12 and 16 - with the youngest so far being just 10 years old.

On Tuesday, Generoso Armenante, a 49-year-old former security guard at a convenience store in the southern town of Salerno, left home after having lunch with his wife - and quietly found a secluded spot where he hanged himself.

Armenante had been fired more than a year ago, and had been struggling to find another job ever since. Next to his body he left a letter: "I decided to end it because I am a failure. I can't live without work."

Unfortunately, he is not alone. Tens of other Italians have also chosen to take their own lives in response to the strain of the economic crisis and the consequent austerity measures.

Borges writes, "dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy." As a preeminent mind, Borges rightly considers the mind to be a man's greatest asset, for without mind, a man is nothing. The more oppressive a political system, then, the greater its assault on its subjects' minds, for it's not enough for any dictator, king or totalitarian system to oppress and exploit, but it must, and I mean must, make its people idiotic as well. Every wrongful bullet is preceded and accompanied, then followed up by a series of idiotic lies, but we're so used to such a moronic diet by now, our trepanned intelligentsia don't even squirm in their tenured chairs.

Sane men and women don't consent to kill, rob and rape, much less be killed, robbed and raped, least of all to enrich their masters, and that's why their minds must be molested as early and as much as possible. Hence our nonstop media brainwashing us from the cradle, literally, to the grave. Fixated by flickering boxes, even infants are now mind-conditioned to become scatterbrained idiots before they stagger into kindergarten, to begin a lifelong process of becoming docile and slogan-shouting Democrats and Republicans.

Yes, savages killed, but, like apes and monkeys, our ancestors, they mostly tried to intimidate and trash talk their way out of conflicts. There wasn't a lot of murdering after the haka, frankly. They didn't wipe out entire cities by defecating exploding metal from the sky, nor sit in a brightly lit and spic-and-span office stroking a joy stick to ejaculate missiles half a planet away. Drone hell fire for y'all, with sides of bank-sponsored debt slavery and austerity, plus an unlimited refill of American pop bullshit. Would you like a public suicide with that? No, sir, these savages need to take webcast courses from us sophisticates when it comes to genocide, or ecocide, or any other kind of cides you can think of. When it comes to pure, unadulterated savagery, these quaint brutes ain't got shit on us plugged-in netizens chillaxin' in that shiny upside down condo on da capital-punishment-for the-entire-world, y'all, hill.