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Double sprint world-record holder Usain Bolt can improve his stunning new times by a wide margin, Italy's former 200m record holder Pietro Mennea beli…
A pizza in the shape of England football manager Fabio Capello's face is proving wildly successful at a fish and chip shop in the north of England.Nic…
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi phoned Russian President Vladimir Putin about the Georgia crisis on Tuesday, a Russian government spokesman told the…
The Vatican on Tuesday set a date for the beatification of a wartime priest who died at the hands of Yugoslav Communist guerillas in the so-called Foi…
Venezuelan police on Tuesday said there had still been no ransom request for an Italian entrepreneur kidnapped last week in Cabimas, 300 miles west of…
Teachers must not spit at headteachers, Italy's Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.The Cassation Court upheld a decision by a Palermo appeals court condem…
The pope's colourful protection force, the Swiss Guards, got a new leader on Tuesday - policeman, army captain and former law lecturer Daniel Rudolf A…
Italy's gamblers have got the Olympic bug and are set to bet three times more on Beijing 2008 than they did on Athens 2004, betting agency Agicoscomme…
Star Italian gymnast Igor Cassina on Tuesday fell far short of retaining the Olympic gold medal he won in Athens in his trademark event, the high bar.…
A farmer who is refusing to hand over a three-month-old deer fawn to the authorities of an Italian national park is to be prosecuted, the park confirm…
An Italian animal rights group on Monday condemned a Sicilian village for its gory annual tradition of stringing up a slaughtered goose by its feet in…
World Cup hero Marcello Lippi is looking to kick off his second term as Italy manager with a win this time.Fielding questions ahead of Wednesday's fri…
Valentino Rossi could pace himself for the remainder of the MotoGp season after opening up a 50-point lead over reigning champion Casey Stoner in Sund…
The world's only completely solar-powered cableway turns 100 on Tuesday.The Montenero funicular railway at the Tuscan city of Livorno was unveiled on…
Italian police have arrested the imam of a mosque in northern Italy after Moroccan authorities requested his extradition on terrorism charges.Special…
The wealth divide between Italy's prosperous northern regions and the impoverished south is widening, a new survey showed on Monday.According to a rep…
AS Roma Chairman Franco Sensi has died, club sources said Monday.Sensi, who had been ill for some time, was 82.The oilman took over the Roman club in…
Industrial output fell 4.4% in June, compared to the same month last year, but inched up 0.1% from May, national statistics bureau Istat reported on…
The mayor of a Piemonte town on Wednesday pledged to don dustmen's overalls and clean the streets of his city every morning in a bid to keep the co…
National statistics bureau Istat on Monday definitively confirmed that Italy's year-on-year inflation rate hit a 12-year high of 4.1% in July while…