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Conservative Rome mayor trails in re-election bid
Rome's conservative mayor was trailing badly in his re-election bid Monday and appeared headed toward a runoff with a center-left challenger, ...
Rome, smaller towns, vote for mayors in Italy
Romans are voting in mayoral elections being watched as a test of Silvio Berlusconi's political influence amid his continuing legal woes.
Pope urges Mafiosi to stop exploitation of others
Pope Francis paid tribute to a courageous priest murdered by the Sicilian Mafia as a martyr and urged mobsters on Sunday to abandon their evil ways, ...
Berlusconi looms large in Rome mayor election
Silvio Berlusconi's figure looms large over Rome's mayoral elections this weekend, even though the former premier isn't among the 19 candidates ...
Fan violence worries overshadow Italian Cup final
Worries of fan violence are high ahead of Sunday's Italian Cup final and Rome derby between Roma and Lazio. After audiences with both Pope Francis and ...
Sorrentino serves up a cinema banquet at Cannes
Paolo Sorrentino has a thing about food — appropriately enough, for the director of a sumptuous feast of a film, "The Great Beauty." The Italian ...
El Salvador presses pope on Romero beatification
El Salvador's president gave Pope Francis a relic of assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero on Thursday amid mounting indications that the Vatican might ...
El Salvador president meets pope amid Romero hopes
El Salvador's president meets with Pope Francis on Thursday amid mounting indications that the stars have finally aligned to beatify assassinated ...
The pope and the devil: Is Francis an exorcist?
Pope Francis' fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a ...
Sorrentino, Bruni Tedeschi bring Italy to Cannes
La dolce vita came to Cannes on Tuesday, thanks to a pair of films set in Italy exploring lives of affluent ennui. Paolo Sorrentino's "The Great ...
Nadal beats Federer, Serena wins at Italian Open
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the ...
Pope leads pep rally at Vatican, meets with Merkel
Pope Francis lamented that investment losses by banks trigger more alarm in the economic crisis than the struggle of people to feed their families, ...
Federer to renew rivalry with Nadal in Rome final
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will renew their rivalry in the Italian Open final Sunday — exactly a week before the French Open starts. In Saturday's ...
Union leads march in Rome calling for job creation
A union of Italian metal workers has led thousands of people in a march through the heart of Rome to press the new government for measures to spur job ...
Top-ranked Djokovic beaten by Berdych in Rome
Novak Djokovic can't seem to find any consistency on clay courts. And with the French Open less than 10 days away, he will enter Roland Garros on the ...
Sick Sharapova withdraws from Rome quarterfinal
Two-time defending champion Maria Sharapova has withdrawn before her Italian Open quarterfinal match against seventh-seeded Sara Errani because of an ...
Nadal struggles to beat qualifier Gulbis in Rome
Six-time champion Rafael Nadal overcame one of the worst opening sets of his career to edge Latvian qualifier Ernests Gulbis 1-6, 7-5, 6-4 on Thursday ...
Scottish cardinal to atone for sexual misconduct
The Vatican on Wednesday ordered a disgraced Scottish cardinal to leave Scotland for several months to pray and atone for sexual misconduct, issuing ...
Murray retires with back pain; Nadal wins in Rome
Back pain forced Andy Murray to retire midway through his second-round match at the Italian Open on Wednesday. He may have to sit out the French Open, ...
Murray retires with back pain; doubtful for Paris
Andy Murray retired from his second-round match with Spanish opponent Marcel Granollers at the Italian Open on Wednesday with lower back pain and ...
Djokovic and Federer show improved form in Rome
Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer appear back on track after early losses in Madrid last week. Serena Williams, meanwhile, is maintaining her dominance