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Italian-American blockbuster-film celebrity Sylvester Stallone said that neither he nor his character Rambo were "ones to retire" while speaking to the press on Wednesday at the International Rome Film Festival. The Hollywood star is in the Italian capital for the world premiere of his latest film 'Bullet to the Head,' directed by Walter Hill.
Three days of heavy rains and winds have left large parts of northern and central Italy under water Tuesday, turning streets into canals and causing the collapse of a bridge as utility workers drove across.
Italy have owned France in recent head-to-head battles, and that dominance will continue on Wednesday. France will be trying to end the Azzuri's recent dominance over them, but the disciplined and effective Italian defense will be the major factor.
The political campaign ahead of Italy’s national elections next spring got into full gear Monday evening with a U.S.-style, prime-time televised debate between the five politicians jockeying to run as prime ministerial candidate for the center-left Democratic Party.
Hopefully, President Obama is a fan of rare, pricey mushrooms.President Obama, who is known to appreciate a fine meal and good drink, will soon be receiving a 2.23 pound white truffle from the people of Acqualangna, Italy.
Boxing gloves once owned by Muhammad Ali are among the 300,000 pieces of memorabilia on display at Italy's first Museum of Sports in Turin. The museum, Italy's first permanent exhibition space dedicated to sports souvenirs, is housed in 800 square meters of exhibition space in Turin's Olympic Stadium.
An Italian project to develop robot companions is among the six finalists competing for up to one billion euros in funding. The RoboCom project is being developed by researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa and students at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa.
Italy head coach Cesare Prandelli hopes Daniele De Rossi learns a valuable lesson after dropping the Roma midfielder from his 25-man squad to face France on Wednesday.
The Giallorossi vice-captain fell foul of Prandelli's strict code of ethics when he punched Lazio captain Stefano Mauri during yesterday's Rome derby, which Lazio went on to win 3-2.
Nearly three quarters of Venice was flooded on Monday and tourists swam in St Mark's Square as a wave of bad weather swept through northern and central Italy, forcing the evacuation of 200 people from their homes in Tuscany.
While some Europeans see Greece as a deadbeat debtor, the Greeks have actually been generous donors when it comes to wine. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in Campania, the southern Italian region that surrounds the sprawl of Naples.