MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi was back behind the wheel of a Ferrari Formula 1 car on Thursday test driving the F2008 car which won this year'…
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Fri, 11/21/2008 - 03:24
Italy striker Luca Toni said he was happy to hand coach Marcello Lippi a share of the world's unbeaten coaching record with his equaliser in the 1-1 d…
Fri, 11/21/2008 - 03:20
Serie A leaders Inter Milan and third-placed Juventus meet Saturday night in what has long been known as ''the derby of Italy'' - a game which has gai…
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 03:56
The first major work of Renaissance sculpture, Donatello's bronze of David, is nearing the end of a complex restoration process.The statue will be unv…
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 03:53
Genoa is girding itself for battle over the world's best-loved fashion item, jeans, which it says originated among fishermen in the city's port over 5…
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 03:50
Italian scientists continue to make wide use of animals in experiments, despite European Union efforts to reduce the practice, the country's anti-vivi…
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 03:38
An Italian priest was blackmailed after paying for sex, police said Wednesday.The priest reportedly admitted answering a woman's sex ad in a Sicilian…
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 03:29
The sale of Alitalia's flight division is in the final stages and now needs only a green light from Industry Minister Claudio Scajola, the national ca…
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 03:26
A 13-year-old boy who spent too much time playing video games was rushed to hospital in a disoriented and confused state in the southern city of Lecce…
Thu, 11/20/2008 - 03:18
Udinese striker Fabio Quagliarella is out of Italy's Wednesday night friendly with Greece after breaking his nose in a training clash.Italy doctors im…
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 03:55
Surrealist master Rene' Magritte's lifelong dalliance with nature is spotlighted in a major new exhibition in Milan.The show, opening in Palazzo Reale…
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 03:48
Germany and Italy are to set up a joint commission that will probe legal claims linked to the Second World War as well as the fate of thousands of Ita…
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 03:42
A falconry enthusiast in the province of Trento is ready to defy local authorities over their demand that he rid himself of his 'foreign' birds.Lino D…
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 03:36
The government is to crack down on people who leave out poisoned food to kill dogs and other animals, Welfare Undersecretary Francesca Martini said Tu…
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 03:31
An Italian pro-Palestinian activist was arrested with a Briton and an American in the waters off the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as the Israeli navy stopped…
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 03:22
A Milan prosecutor told a Milan court on Tuesday that Lazio Chairman Claudio Lotito should be jailed for 20 months for alleged share-rigging.Lotito an…
Wed, 11/19/2008 - 03:15
Villarreal striker Giuseppe Rossi is to get his first start for Italy in Wednesday night's friendly against Greece in Athens.Coach Marcello Lippi poin…
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 04:18
Italian movie great Federico Fellini's dreams will be on show at next year's Oscars, organisers said here Monday.A Book of Dreams compiled by the dire…
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 04:11
Roberto Saviano, the Italian writer placed under a death sentence by the brutal Camorra clan he exposed in his worldwide bestseller Gomorra, said Mond…
Tue, 11/18/2008 - 03:58
Rome came a step closer to the creation of a National Shoah Museum on Monday after a city council board gave the definitive go-ahead to the project, R…