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The Trentonian - Sun Nov 22, 6:15 am ET
PERUGIA, Italy — Prosecutors today requested life in prison for an American student and her ex-boyfriend accused in the fatal stabbing of her British roommate during a drug-fueled sex game — charges the U.S. woman dismissed as "pure fantasy."
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AP via Yahoo! Sports - Mon Nov 23, 10:11 am ET
Cyclist Gianni Da Ros received a 20-year ban Monday because of doping, one of the stiffest sanctions imposed by the Italian Olympic Committee. Da Ros was arrested in March while training with Italy's national track cycling team in Padua and immediately suspended by his Liquigas team. Ten other people were arrested as part of an inquiry into a doping trafficking ring in northern Italy.
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AP via Yahoo! Sports - Mon Nov 23, 11:01 am ET
Palermo fired coach Walter Zenga on Monday and hired Delio Rossi as a replacement, a day after a 1-1 draw with Sicilian rival Catania. With 17 points after 13 rounds, Palermo is 12th in the 20-team Serie A. Zenga, the former Inter Milan and Italy goalkeeper, led Catania last season and for the final seven rounds of the 2007-08 campaign.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 10:41 am ET
A military C-130 Hercules transport plane crashed on take-off during a training flight near Pisa in northwest Italy Monday, killing all five people on board, the Italian air force told AFP.
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The Auto Channel - Tue Nov 24, 8:13 am ET
MARANELLO, ITALY - November 24, 2009: The first Ferrari Store in Greece was inaugurated today in the very heart of Athens, in Kolokotroni Street.
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Reuters via Yahoo! Sports - Mon Nov 23, 7:03 am ET
David Beckham said it will be a challenge for him to make the team at AC Milan when he begins his loan spell in Italy but he is confident he will be able to break into the Serie A side.
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Swimming World Magazine - 21 minutes ago
RICCIONE, Italy, November 23. THE second day of competition at the Italian Short Course Championships featured five national records being rewritten. Damiano Lestingi led the way with two national rec...
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Swimming World Magazine - 24 minutes ago
RICCIONE, Italy, November 21. DURING the first day of swimming at the Italian Short Course Championships, Niccolo Beni topped the national mark in the men's 200 fly. Beni clocked a time of 1:53.72 to ...
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KNDO - KNDU Tri-Cities - Sat Nov 21, 9:12 pm ET
Associated Press - November 21, 2009 9:05 PM ET PERUGIA, Italy (AP) - Prosecutors have requested life sentences for a Seattle student and her former Italian boyfriend accused of killing a young...
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INO News - Tue Nov 24, 6:43 am ET
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Shares in U.K. confectioner Cadbury PLC (CBRY.LN) hit a record high Monday on new reports that Hershey Co (HSY), Nestle SA (NESN.VX) and Italy's Ferrero were all considering rival offers to the current GBP9.9 billion ($16.5 billion) bid from Kraft Foods Inc. (KFT).
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UPI - Mon Nov 23, 3:13 pm ET
PISA, Italy, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Five people aboard an Italian C-130 military transport plane died after it crashed Monday in Pisa, military sources said.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - 1 hour 16 minutes ago
FLORENCE, Italy----In a pioneering application for the global liquid natural gas industry, GE Oil & Gas technology is powering the world’s first gravity-based offshore LNG terminal located 17 kilometers offshore from the town of Rovigo, near Venice, on Italy’s north east coast.
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Bloomberg - Mon Nov 23, 12:18 pm ET
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Italy’s benchmark FTSE MIB Index added 444.76, or 2 percent, to 22,956.44, the first increase in five sessions, in Milan. The following stocks were among the most active on the Italian market today.
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UPI - Mon Nov 23, 12:58 pm ET
FLORENCE, Italy, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- The director of a museum in Florence, Italy, said two fingers taken from Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1737 have been rediscovered.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 23, 7:26 am ET
Rome - Italian police arrested nine people including the president of Italian football club Potenza SC on Monday in a match-fixing investigation. Prosecuting authorities said the arrests were on charges of betting fraud and membership of a criminal o...