Articles by ITALY

AS Roma will play Manchester United in the Champions League group stage a year after the 7-1 drubbing it received from the English club at Old Traffor…
Italian long-jumper Andrew Howe on Thursday won a silver medal in a dramatic event at the world athletics championships in Japan.In his last attempt H…
Young British actress Keira Knightley says she's had enough of playing pirates and is happy to have portrayed a more complex character in Joe Wright's…
Italian authorities are worried that an exchange of wedding rings between two jailed mob bosses could signal a return to the bloody days of all-out wa…
Italian MPs said on Wednesday that Britain had agreed to hold off on deporting an Iranian lesbian whom human rights' campaigners say will be stoned to…
Interior Minister Giuliano Amato said on Wednesday that the Mafia had little to do with the forest blazes that have been sweeping central and southern…
Pope Benedict on Wednesday condemned arsonists believed to be behind some of the forest fires which have left 75 people dead in Greece and Italy so fa…
Tragic soccer deaths like that of Sevilla's young defender Antonio Puerta are not possible in Italy, according to the Italian doctor who famously spot…
Venice braced on Tuesday for its annual dose of cinema glamour and razzamatazz amid the final preparations for this year's edition of the world's olde…
The Sicilian regional government on Tuesday said it would overturn a regional court's green light for an American company to drill for natural gas in…
A Catholic priest in northern Italy has revived the debate about clerical celibacy by confessing to have fallen in love with a separated mother.Father…
Rome is to crack down on street crime and antisocial behaviour in its famed Trastevere district, a once-peaceful tourist mecca whose laid-back atmosph…
A controversial crackdown on car windscreen washers in Florence kicked into action on Tuesday with more than 15 arrests in the Tuscan city.The washers…
Catania coach Silvio Baldini has been banned for a month for kicking Parma counterpart Domenico Di Carlo in the backside during a Serie A match on Sun…
The death toll from a fire last week at a Sicilian holiday farm has risen to four after another victim in the alleged arson case died in hospital from…
The family of a 1970s victim of the Red Brigades said on Monday it was suing French film star Fanny Ardant after she expressed admiration for the far-…
Ferrari, whose two drivers are separated by a single point in the championship standings, said on Monday it had no intention of favouring either one f…
Inter Milan's Brazil striker Adriano will not agree to a loan aimed at improving his chances of regaining a starting place in the Italian champions' s…
A Vatican charter flight service took to the skies on Monday as a Boeing 737 decorated in the Holy See's yellow and white colours transported a cardin…
Italian MPs and gay rights' groups stepped up a campaign on Monday to save an Iranian woman being held in Britain whom they say will be stoned to deat…