Tag: Italy

Italy’s press revels in Balotelli brilliance

Italy’s press on Friday celebrated the national side’s 2-1 Euro 2012 semi-final victory against Germany and in particular the double by “stratospheric” striker Mario...

Ready even to take a penalty: Hart

England goalkeeper Joe Hart has revealed he is ready to take a penalty if Sunday's Euro 2012 quarter-final against Italy goes to a shoot-out....

Italy probes mysterious school bombing after arrest

Italian police on Thursday probed deeper into the motivations of a man who has admitted setting off a bomb outside a vocational college in...

Quake survivors’ misery as Italy counts the cost

Rescue workers ended their search for survivors on Wednesday after a second killer earthquake in northeastern Italy claimed 17 lives and caused millions of...

12 dead in Italy as second quake hits

A strong earthquake rocked northeastern Italy on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, just days after another quake in the same region wrought death...

Italy quake zone hit by aftershocks as 4,000 seek shelter

Several thousand Italians were sheltering in cars and makeshift tent cities Monday as a series of aftershocks rattled towns across the northeast after a...

Teenager killed, five seriously hurt in Italy school blast

A 16-year-old girl died and five other teens were seriously injured in southern Italy Saturday in a bomb blast outside a vocational school, with...

Italy extends help in technical sectors

The Italian Ambassador to Pakistan Vincenzo Prati has said the Italian government is ready to support Pakistan in the technical and mechanical sectors whenever...

Spain, Italy waist-deep into eurozone quagmire

Spain and faced growing market pressure on Monday, stoking fears of a new phase in the euro zone debt crisis as Madrid’s budget...

Italian player dies after collapsing on pitch

Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini has died after suffering a suspected heart-attack during an Italian second division match at Pescara on Saturday, Italian media reported. The...

Italy in shock after Italian, Moroccan set themselves alight

Italy was in shock Thursday after an Italian builder on trial for tax evasion and a Moroccan man who had not been paid for...

Italy sends top diplomat to India in shootings row

Giulio Terzi will visit next week amid an escalating row over two Italian soldiers arrested for killing two Indian fishermen. Junior foreign minister Staffan...

Italian thieves apologise for bank robbery

Two robbers who broke into a bank in Italy on Friday apologised to employees, saying that they were forced to steal because of the...

70 passengers plan class action suit over Italy cruise wreck

More than 70 passengers from the Costa Concordia luxury liner which sank off the coast of Italy have joined a class action suit against...

Two Koreans, Italian rescued from Italy cruise disaster

Two South Korean honeymooners and an Italian crewman were rescued Sunday from a cruise ship wreck on an Italian island as emergency services searched...

Italy divers search stricken cruise liner

At least three people are reported to have died after a cruise ship ran aground off the coast of Tuscany in Italy. Coastguards were forced...

Spain looks safer than Italy as borrowing costs fall

Spain saw solid demand for its bonds on Thursday, paying more than 2 percentage points less to borrow over 5-years than Italy a day...