Maria Sharapova withdrew from the Italian Open before her quarter-final with Italy's Sara Errani on Friday because of "physical problems", organizers said.
The Russian is set to defend her French Open title later this month.
Italian Open officials did not elaborate further on the reasons for (...)
A man was arrested on Sunday after shooting and wounding two police officers outside the Italian prime minister's office in central Rome, police said.
One of the wounded law enforcers had been shot in the neck and was in a serious condition, a police official said.
The shootings took place as Prime (...)
French forward Saha was released by Sunderland last month meaning he is able to sign outside of a transfer window.
Lazio said in a statement the 34-year-old former Manchester United frontman would be presented at a news conference later.
The Rome club, who have reached the Italian Cup final and lie (...)
Lazio have been handed a suspended one-game stadium ban by UEFA following anti-semitic chanting by home fans in a Europa League game against Tottenham Hotspur in November, Italian media reported on Friday.
UEFA was not available for comment but Lazio President Claudio Lotito told Italian radio the (...)
Rome police announced the news on their website on Thursday. Francesco Ianari and Mauro Pinnelli, identified as fans of Roma, remain in jail after having initial charges of attempted homicide downgraded to aggravated wounding on Monday.
Seven people were injured in the attack, one with a knife (...)
Fewer than five percent of patients prescribed narcotics to treat chronic pain become addicted to the drugs, according to a new analysis of past research.
The finding suggests that concerns about the risk of becoming addicted to prescription painkillers might be "overblown," said addiction (...)
World leaders must take swift, coordinated action to ensure that food price shocks do not turn into a catastrophe that could hurt tens of millions of people in coming months, the United Nations' food agencies said in a statement on Tuesday.
Global alarm over the potential for a food crisis of the (...)
Soccer player Emanuele Pesoli has chained himself to the gates of the Italian football federation headquarters in Rome and gone on hunger strike in protest at being banned for three years in a match-fixing scandal.
The former Siena player, now at Verona, was among a number of Italian footballers, (...)
تصدرت النجمة العالمية بينلوبى كروز، غلاف مجلة " Madame Figaro "، مرتدية ملابس بإمضاء دار الأزياء الشهير ستيلا ماكرتنى، وتتحدث كروز للمجلة عن تجربتها كسفيرة لعطور " لونكوم" العالمية، والتى عبرت عنها بأنها تمثل جزءا من حياتها وذكرياتها، كما تتحدث كروز عن مصممى الأزياء التى تفضلهم، مثل رالف لورون وجون (...)
أقيم أمس العرض الخاص لفيلم "To Rome with Love " فى كازا ليفر بنيويورك، والتى تألقت خلالها بينلوبى كروز التى خطفت أنظار الجميع بإطلالتها المُبهرة حيث ارتدت فستان من "الدنتيل" من اللون "البنفسجى، وكانت بينلوب محط تركيز عدسات المصورين، وحضر معها بالعرض الخاص جريتا جيروينج ووودى آلان.
فيلم "To Rome (...)
علقت النجمة العالمية بينلوب كروز فى برنامج "The Tonight Show" مع المذيع جاى لينو عن تعاونها مع المخرج وودى آلان فى فيلمها الجديد "To Rome With Love"، والذى أكدت أنه تعاون "مثمر" أخرج عملا يستحق المشاهدة، ففى بداية اللقاء سألها جاى لينو: "هل تتذكر أول مرة ظهرتِ فيها معى فى "TheTonight Show"؟ فأجابت (...)
The French fifth seed spent just 26 minutes on court on Monday to wrap up a 6-4 7-6 3-6 3-6 6-4 fourth-round win against Swiss 18th seed Stanislas Wawrinka after the match was interrupted by dusk on Sunday.
"I have the feeling I spent more energy today in four games than yesterday," Tsonga told (...)
The Jamaican world record holder, who managed only 10.04 in Ostrava last Friday, was back to his best against a world class field which included his compatriot and former world record holder Asafa Powell.
Powell, who said later he had not heard the starting gun, finished second in 9.91 while (...)
The recent elections were such a welcome splash of colour in contrast with the grey workaday world. The man using a tall ladder as a fixed pair of stilts and securing the banners with stout strings to poles two storeys high lent a circus atmosphere to the occasion. Red was definitely the ‘in' (...)
Alessio Cerci scored the only goal of the game 10 minutes from time. Lecce goalkeeper Massimiliano Benassi almost equalized in injury time but his strike hit his own teammate.
In the late game, Francesco Totti scored twice and had a penalty saved as Roma drew 2-2 with Catania in the veteran (...)
Rome (dpa) – Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and US high-tech billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates were set to discuss climate change issues affecting agriculture at a United Nations conference that began Wednesday in Rome.
The two-day event was being (...)
Rome (dpa) – Global food prices hit a record high in 2011 despite falling by 2.4 per cent in December, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday.
The Rome-based FAO said its Food Price Index in December was 11.3 per cent (27 points) below its peak in February 2011.
The (...)
A United Nations book released on Tuesday aims to provide people in the developing world with accessible knowledge of Amazon plants and foods they can use to improve their livelihoods.The book, Fruit Trees and Useful Plants in Amazonian Life, is written in easy-to-grasp language and incorporates (...)
The FAO index of global food prices, which measures monthly price changes for a food basket of cereals, oilseeds, dairy, meat and sugar, averaged 215 points in November, down one point from October, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said. in a statement.
The November index was 10 per (...)
ROME: A fishing boat carrying 166 Egyptian and five Somali migrants arrived overnight in the southern Italian port of Bari, the Italian coast guard said Saturday.
The boat, some 30 meters (100 feet) long and flying a Maltese flag, was spotted a few kilometers offshore and accompanied to port by (...)
Food prices dropped to an 11-month low in October, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today, while adding that they are still higher than last year and very volatile.
FAO's Food Price Index averaged 216 points last month, down 4 per cent from September, the agency (...)
Demonstrators in Rome set fire to two cars and broke some store windows during a protest in the Italian capital on Saturday, witnesses said.
They said the violence was caused by hooded militants known as "black blocs," who have infiltrated demonstrations in the past. There were no immediate (...)
Italian police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse demonstrators in Rome on Saturday, some of whom had set fire to cars, broke shop and bank windows and clashed with officers during a protest against global economic policies.
Witnesses said the violence was caused by several dozen hooded (...)
ROME - Demonstrators in Rome set fire to two cars and broke some store windows during a protest in the Italian capital on Saturday, witnesses said.
They said the violence was caused by hooded militants known as "black blocs," who have infiltrated demonstrations in the past. There were no immediate (...)
ROME (Updated) - Italian police fired teargas and water cannon to disperse demonstrators in Rome on Saturday, some of whom had set fire to cars, broke shop and bank windows and clashed with officers during a protest against global economic policies.
Witnesses said the violence was caused by several (...)