Italian Soccer Federation (FIGC) chief Giancarlo Abete was elected Wednesday to the executive committee of European soccer's ruling body UEFA.Abete go…
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Thu, 03/26/2009 - 04:42
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…
Thu, 03/26/2009 - 04:28
Zlatan Ibrahimovic is not unhappy at Inter Milan, his agent told Italian radio Wednesday.''There is a splendid relationship between Zlatan and (Inter…
Wed, 03/25/2009 - 05:15
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…
Wed, 03/25/2009 - 05:05
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…
Wed, 03/25/2009 - 05:00
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…
Wed, 03/25/2009 - 04:54
New government plans to introduce a 30% limit per class on immigrant pupils will help integration, Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini said Tuesday…
Wed, 03/25/2009 - 04:49
Italy coach Marcello Lippi was unmoved Tuesday by suggestions he should have called up mercurial Sampdoria forward Antonio Cassano for Italy's upcomin…
Wed, 03/25/2009 - 04:46
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…
Wed, 03/25/2009 - 04:43
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…
Tue, 03/24/2009 - 12:31
Verona, now a World Heritage Site, is a great crossroads of historical periods and cultures. In the quality and preservation of its Roman antiquities,…
Tue, 03/24/2009 - 04:58
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…
Tue, 03/24/2009 - 04:52
Pope Benedict XVI's first visit to Africa will produce important results, Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi said on Monday.The pontiff was r…
Tue, 03/24/2009 - 04:44
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…
Tue, 03/24/2009 - 04:35
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…
Mon, 03/23/2009 - 11:02
Crusading comic Beppe Grillo on Monday testified at a trial here into the 2003 bankruptcy of dairy giant Parmalat, Europe's biggest corporate collapse…
Mon, 03/23/2009 - 10:55
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…
Mon, 03/23/2009 - 10:49
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…
Mon, 03/23/2009 - 10:43
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…
Mon, 03/23/2009 - 10:37
The uncapped trio of Sampdoria frontman Giampaolo Pazzini, AS Roma right back Marco Motta and Genoa defender Salvatore Bocchetti have been called up f…