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Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) chief Giancarlo Abete was elected Wednesday to the executive committee of European soccer's ruling body UEFA.Abete go…
Kristian Ghedina came sixth in the Italian downhill championships Wednesday in a one-off 'comeback' event three years after he quit the sport.''I made…
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is not unhappy at Inter Milan, his agent told Italian radio Wednesday.''There is a splendid relationship between Zlatan and (Inter…
A 12-volume collection of work by Leonardo da Vinci is being unbound and the 'notebook' of the Renaissance genius will go on show at two separate loca…
Veteran journalist Paolo Garimberti has won approval from both sides of the political divide as the new chairman of state broadcaster RAI, ending a ni…
The new governor of Sardinia said Tuesday he will repeal a so-called 'luxury tax' regime that has been the bane of the millionaires and yacht-owners w…
New government plans to introduce a 30% limit per class on immigrant pupils will help integration, Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini said Tuesday…
Italy coach Marcello Lippi was unmoved Tuesday by suggestions he should have called up mercurial Sampdoria forward Antonio Cassano for Italy's upcomin…
A Formula One victory costs an average of 135 million euros, but reigning world champion team Ferrari last year paid less than a third of that for a w…
Italy is hoping Lance Armstrong's collar-bone fracture in a Spanish fall Monday won't keep him out of his first Giro d'Italia. ''I'm sure he'll recove…
Verona, now a World Heritage Site, is a great crossroads of historical periods and cultures. In the quality and preservation of its Roman antiquities,…
Greece on Monday returned to Italy two medieval frescoes looted from a tomb near Naples in 1982.The frescoes of two saints were recovered by Greek ant…
Pope Benedict XVI's first visit to Africa will produce important results, Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi said on Monday.The pontiff was r…
Italian soccer will keep up its ALS funding drive in Brescia next week when old AC Milan glories like Franco Baresi, Zvonimir Boban and Demetrio Alber…
The new Ferrari F60 has performed well in tests but its real 'countercheck' will be this weekend, when the Formula 1 season kicks off with the Austral…
Crusading comic Beppe Grillo on Monday testified at a trial here into the 2003 bankruptcy of dairy giant Parmalat, Europe's biggest corporate collapse…
The National Alliance (AN), born in 1995 from the ashes OF the neofascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), officially ceased to exist on Sunday and this…
Italy has invited labour ministers from the Group of Five (G5) nations (Brazil, China, India, Mexico and South Africa) and Egypt to take part in the G…
Inter Milan coach Jose' Mourinho on Monday vowed to keep star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic at the Serie A champions and leaders.''I will persuade Ibrahi…
The uncapped trio of Sampdoria frontman Giampaolo Pazzini, AS Roma right back Marco Motta and Genoa defender Salvatore Bocchetti have been called up f…