ROME – With simulated blasts outside the Colosseum, in a bus near Piazza Navona (search) and in a downtown subway station, Italians on Monday prepared for the possibility the Eternal City may be the target of a terrorist attack. More than 500 police took to Rome’s streets in the second …

LOS ANGELES – Hollywood fashion commentator Steven Cojocaru (search) underwent surgery Monday for removal of a transplanted kidney that had become infected, a spokesman said. Cojocaru, a correspondent for the syndicated Paramount Domestic Television shows “Entertainment Tonight (search)” and “The Insider (search),” was recovering at an undisclosed hospital after the …

Traveling home for the holidays? Up your in-flight entertainment ante by picking up the new Apple iPod at your local Zoom Systems airport vending machine. Zoom Systems, a major player in the automated retail market, aims to pioneer the retail revolution with plans to deploy a network of thousands of …

ZURICH – UBS (search) is considering buying a $500 million stake in Bank of China (search) in a deal that would cement the position of its investment bank in China’s fast growing economy. The world’s seventh-largest bank, which helped BOC list its Hong Kong arm in 2001, said on Thursday …

MOSCOW – Yum Brands Inc. (YUM), parent of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell fast-food chains, and Russia’s Rostik’s said on Friday they were teaming up to invest about $100 million in a joint venture. Rostik’s (search), whose red and yellow signs of a chicken brandishing a knife and fork …

WASHINGTON – President Bush appealed anew to lawmakers to support a Central American trade agreement as Congress moved a step closer Wednesday to what could be the toughest vote on a trade deal in years. The president’s White House meeting with senators from both parties followed discussions last week with …

HERNANDO, Miss. – A judge in Mississippi has approved a divorce settlement between “Great Balls of Fire” musician Jerry Lee Lewis (search) and his sixth wife, Kerrie Lynn McCarver Lewis, and promptly sealed the court records. The settlement was reached Wednesday, the same day the case was to go to …

CHICAGO – Polo Ralph Lauren Corp. (RL) said on Friday its quarterly earnings fell sharply because of litigation costs and other items, but its shares rose 5 percent as revenue and earnings before the unusual items beat analyst expectations. Prudential Securities also upgraded the shares to “overweight” from “neutral weight” …

POSO, Indonesia – Indonesian police said Saturday they have arrested 17 suspects in last weekend’s bombings in a Christian town that killed 20 people. None of the 17 — including the head of a local prison, three prisoners and an Islamic junior high school master — have been formally charged …

WASHINGTON – The United States needs a new national intelligence director who has oversight over all of the nation’s intelligence agencies, the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks recommends in its report to be released Thursday. FOX News obtained a copy of the report, which is set to …