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World champions Italy rose to second place in FIFA's world rankings for June despite being kicked out of the Euro 2008 quarter finals by new European…
Hollywood star Rutger Hauer is set to bring the first International Short Film Festival to Milan in September with a star-studded jury that includes A…
An extremely rare Roman bronze rostrum used for ramming enemy ships which may have been used in the last great naval battle in the First Punic War has…
Italian pasta multinational Barilla has branded the polices of the European Union and the United States to use wheat to produce biofuels as ''madness'…
Armed bandits have kidnapped four local aid workers employed by an Italian charity in Mogadishu, a representative of the organization said on Tuesday.…
Defense Minister Ignazio La Russia on Tuesday visited Italian troops deployed in Afghanistan ahead of his meeting in Kabul with Afghan President Hamid…
Coach Marcello Lippi was formally back at the Italy helm on Tuesday promising to put the squad back on the track which allowed it to win the 2006 Worl…
Ferrari has had a good Formula 1 season so far but it must remain focused and keep its feet on the ground if it wants to repeat its success of last ye…
Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana hit out at the religious values of the Italian government on Monday as the furore over a plan by Interior Minister…
Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini on Monday urged Europe to make every effort possible to ensure the success of the Union for the Mediterranean…
Proposals from the European Union to reduce automobile CO2 emissions are a ''non-sense'' for Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne.In an interview published Mond…
Japan's two largest newspapers on Monday apologised to Italy on behalf of Japanese tourists who have been scrawling their names on the walls of Floren…
Motorbike sales plunged in the first quarter of 2008 and continued to fall in the following two months, a trend which some observers considered an ind…
Relatives of seven workers who died last year in a fire at the ThyssenKrupp steelworks in Turin reached a compensation agreement with the German multi…
Italy midfielder Daneile De Rossi has extended his contract with AS Roma for at least four more years, the Serie A club announced on Monday.The player…
Police on Monday arrested eight Croatian gypsies on charges of forcing children to commit hundreds of burglaries in northern Italy, adding fuel to an…
The widow of the great Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti and the three adult daughters he had with his first wife are reported to have reached an agreem…
Producer prices in May leapt by 7.5%, the biggest year-on-year jump since January 2003, national statistics bureau Istat reported on Monday.Compared t…
Italy's year-on-year inflation rate in June hit 3.8%, its highest since July 1996, national statistics bureau Istat reported on Monday.Istat also repo…
Gigi Buffon was the only Italian to make the 'dream team' drawn by UEFA using players in the just-concluded Euro 2008.The 23 best players chose for th…