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(Reuters) - Prime Minister Mario Monti promised on Tuesday to press for joint action by European Union countries to help ease pressure on Italian bonds, risking a showdown with Germany which has refused to share the burden of other countries' debt.
Italy set up a European Championship soccer semifinal with record three-time winner Germany after a 4-2 penalty shootout victory over England. The Italians were forced to rely on the post-midnight shootout after failing to convert their superior play over 120 minutes at the Olympic Stadium in Kiev into a goal.
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – Alessandro Damiani scored the decisive penalty kick Sunday to give Italy a 4-2 shootout win over England and a spot in the European Championshiosemifinals.
Neither team wanted this. Not the caprice of penalty kicks. A soccer goal is eight feet high and eight yards wide, but for England and Italy, it could seem like a shooting at a matchbox.Italy won the 2006 World Cup in a penalty-kick shootout, but it and England had a mostly tortured history at this lottery that is at once unsatisfying and heart-stopping.
(ANSA) - Rome, June 22 - A one-day strike by transport unions caused misery for commuters all over Italy on Friday, with Rome hit especially hard.The strike against government cuts, the latest in a series of one-day protests staged at the end of the working week, slashed bus, metro, tram and local train services in the big cities.
(ANSA) - Milan, June 22 - A Moroccan model told a Milan court Friday that she was aware of potentially incriminating pictures "of a sexual nature" of ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi and underage Moroccan dancer Karima 'Ruby' El Mahroug.
(ANSA) - Rome, June 22 - It may mean the end of a lifetime of drugs for AIDS patients.Italian researches have found a treatment to rehabilitate the immune system and get patients off medication, according to a new study.
The plan was impromptu and as sometimes happens in such situations, ran into a roadblock. That that difficulty turned into of the best things that happened on our visit to the Lake Como area is typical of Italy. A bunch of friends gathered last week to celebrate a couple of significant birthdays in a splendid house on the Milan Malibu stretch of the lake’s north shore (George Clooney’s place, everyone insisted, was nearly next door!).
Three days ago Italy centre-back Leonardo Bonucci put a brotherly yet firm hand over Mario Balotelli's mouth to prevent the talented youngster getting himself into bother.
LONDON — Leaders from the euro zone’s four largest nations– Germany, France, Italy and Spain – agreed Friday to pump as much as $164 billion into the region’s moribund economy, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel indicating a fresh willingness to embrace fiscal stimulus as a tool to fightEurope's financial crisis.