http://www.mail.com/int/locations/1568-italy.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/locations/1568-italy.html http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2102464-vatican-releases-1st-report-financial-watchdog.html VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican took another step Wednesday to show greater financial transparency by publishing the first annual report from its financial watchdog agency and announcing new regulations to fight money laundering and terror financing. The report from the Financial Intelligence Authority showed the agency received six internal reports on su... Wed, 22 May 2013 20:34:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2102464-vatican-releases-1st-report-financial-watchdog.html 2013-05-22T20:34:15Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2103214-el-salvador-president-meets-pope-amid-romero-hopes.html VATICAN CITY (AP) — El Salvador's president meets with Pope Francis on Thursday amid mounting indications that the stars have finally aligned to beatify assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero. The Central American country now has a government made up of former guerilla fighters who battled the same military hierarchy that Romero denounced. The Vatican now h... Wed, 22 May 2013 20:14:41 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2103214-el-salvador-president-meets-pope-amid-romero-hopes.html 2013-05-22T20:14:41Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2102526-trial-captain-deadly-shipwreck-italy.html ROME (AP) — An Italian judge has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship to stand trial for manslaughter in the vessel's shipwreck off the coast of Tuscany, which killed 32 people. Judge Pietro Molino, at a closed-door hearing Wednesday in the town of Grosseto, agreed to prosecutors' request that Capt. Francesco Schettino of Italy be tried ... Wed, 22 May 2013 19:08:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2102526-trial-captain-deadly-shipwreck-italy.html 2013-05-22T19:08:03Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/markets/2102370-fiat-industrial-aims-to-shift-tax-to-britain.html MILAN (AP) — Fiat Industrial disputed as "absolutely false" reports Wednesday that Italy would lose 500 million euros ($646 million) in tax revenues if it moves its tax base to Britain after it completes a merger with its U.S.-based subsidiary CNH Global NV. But the maker of heavy trucks, farm and construction vehicles said in a statement that it believed... Wed, 22 May 2013 19:01:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/markets/2102370-fiat-industrial-aims-to-shift-tax-to-britain.html 2013-05-22T19:01:40Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2102928-italy-seizes-12-billion-euros-steel-family.html MILAN (AP) — Milan prosecutors have ordered the seizure of 1.2 billion euros ($1.5 billion) in assets belonging to the family that runs a troubled steel plant in southern Italy. Prosecutors allege in the order Wednesday that the real estate, stocks and other financial assets belonging to the Riva family were obtained through the misuse of funds belonging ... Wed, 22 May 2013 15:21:36 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2102928-italy-seizes-12-billion-euros-steel-family.html 2013-05-22T15:21:36Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2099728-pope-devil-francis-exorcist.html VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis' fascination with the devil took on remarkable new twists Tuesday, with a well-known exorcist insisting Francis helped "liberate" a Mexican man possessed by four different demons despite the Vatican's insistence that no such papal exorcism took place. The case concerns a 43-year-old husband and father who traveled to Rome ... Tue, 21 May 2013 22:31:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2099728-pope-devil-francis-exorcist.html 2013-05-21T22:31:47Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2100572-sorrentino-bruni-tedeschi-bring-italy-to-cannes.html CANNES, France (AP) — 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 Beauty" and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi's "A Castle in Italy" both feature wealthy characters whose lives have an emptiness at their center. Bruni Tedeschi — the only woman among the 20 directors... Tue, 21 May 2013 20:19:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/lifestyle/2100572-sorrentino-bruni-tedeschi-bring-italy-to-cannes.html 2013-05-21T20:19:52Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2100160-intxausti-wins-16th-giro-stage-nibali-leads.html IVREA, Italy (AP) — Benat Intxausti of Spain won the 16th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Tuesday, and favorite Vincenzo Nibali retained the overall lead as the race entered the final week. Intxausti won in a time of 5 hours, 52 minutes, 48 seconds, along the hilly 238 kilometers (148 miles) from Valloire, France, to Ivrea beating Tanel Kangert and Przemysl... Tue, 21 May 2013 18:01:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2100160-intxausti-wins-16th-giro-stage-nibali-leads.html 2013-05-21T18:01:58Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2100494-italian-cyclist-basso-to-resume-training-week.html MILAN (AP) — Italian cyclist Ivan Basso is set to resume training next week after medical tests revealed he doesn't need surgery on a cyst in his seat area. His Cannondale squad said Tuesday that Basso, who pulled out of the Giro d'Italia two days before the May 4 start, will undergo treatment that "should allow him to resume physical activity in the firs... Tue, 21 May 2013 17:14:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2100494-italian-cyclist-basso-to-resume-training-week.html 2013-05-21T17:14:09Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2097936-italy-coach-calls-zero-tolerance-to-racism.html FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Italy must adopt a zero tolerance policy towards racism in football if it is to eradicate the problem from the sport, national team coach Cesare Prandelli said Monday. A number of Italian clubs have been punished for racist incidents recently. "It is a serious problem, a problem that is not only the national team's or Milan's but It... Mon, 20 May 2013 15:41:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2097936-italy-coach-calls-zero-tolerance-to-racism.html 2013-05-20T15:41:46Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2097850-allegri-to-meet-milan-wednesday-to-discuss-future.html MILAN (AP) — AC Milan vice president Adriano Galliani will meet with Massimiliano Allegri on Wednesday to discuss the coach's future at the Serie A club. Allegri steered Milan to third spot and a place in the Champions League qualifiers, but his future remains uncertain, with speculation of a move to Roma after criticism from club owner and former Italian... Mon, 20 May 2013 14:27:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2097850-allegri-to-meet-milan-wednesday-to-discuss-future.html 2013-05-20T14:27:10Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2097818-milans-abbiati-signs-1-year-contract-extension.html MILAN (AP) — Veteran AC Milan goalkeeper Christian Abbiati has signed a one-year contract extension with the Serie A club. Abbiati's contract was set to expire next month but he agreed to a new deal tying him to the club until June 2014. Abbiati says "I've signed for a year and that's the club's policy, but I am happy to start another season with Milan wh... Mon, 20 May 2013 14:08:42 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2097818-milans-abbiati-signs-1-year-contract-extension.html 2013-05-20T14:08:42Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2096220-milan-secures-champs-league-spot-with-dramatic-win.html MILAN (AP) — AC Milan secured third spot and a place in the Champions League after coming from behind to win 2-1 at Siena on Sunday in the final Serie A round of the season. Fiorentina crushed Pescara 5-1 but remained in fourth spot and will play in the Europa League next season. Mario Balotelli leveled for Milan after it was contentiously awarded penalty... Sun, 19 May 2013 22:20:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2096220-milan-secures-champs-league-spot-with-dramatic-win.html 2013-05-19T22:20:12Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2096748-mazzarri-quits-napoli-coach-season.html ROME (AP) — Walter Mazzarri has quit as Napoli coach following the final match of a Serie A season that ended with the team finishing runner-up. Mazzarri had been in charge of Napoli for four seasons and steered the team to the Champions League for the second time in three years. He says "at this point I think it is only right to either change scenery or ... Sun, 19 May 2013 22:02:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2096748-mazzarri-quits-napoli-coach-season.html 2013-05-19T22:02:07Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/tennis/2096084-nadal-beats-federer-serena-wins-italian-open.html ROME (AP) — 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 final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. "Rafa was just too good today," Federer said. It tied for the second ... Sun, 19 May 2013 17:18:20 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/tennis/2096084-nadal-beats-federer-serena-wins-italian-open.html 2013-05-19T17:18:20Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2094904-pope-leads-pep-rally-vatican-meets-with-merkel.html VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis lamented that investment losses by banks trigger more alarm in the economic crisis than the struggle of people to feed their families, as he led a huge rally Saturday to invigorate the church's moral conscience, hours after he held talks at the Vatican about the economic crisis with Germany's leader. Some 200,000 people, f... Sat, 18 May 2013 23:26:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2094904-pope-leads-pep-rally-vatican-meets-with-merkel.html 2013-05-18T23:26:21Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2095158-sampdoria-beats-juventus-3-2-final-serie-game.html MILAN (AP) — Sampdoria became the only team to beat Juventus twice in the league under Antonio Conte as it secured a 3-2 victory over the newly-crowned Serie A champion on Saturday. Eder, Lorenzo De Silvestri and Mauro Icardi helped Sampdoria come from behind after Fabio Quagliarella had scored against his old team. Emanuele Giaccherini reduced the defici... Sat, 18 May 2013 22:26:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/2095158-sampdoria-beats-juventus-3-2-final-serie-game.html 2013-05-18T22:26:22Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/tennis/2094854-federer-to-renew-rivalry-with-nadal-rome-final.html ROME (AP) — 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 semifinals at the Foro Italico, Federer held off a stiff challenge from rising Frenchman Benoit Paire 7-6 (5), 6-4, and six-time Rome champion Nadal defeated sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych 6-2, 6-4 ... Sat, 18 May 2013 20:41:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/tennis/2094854-federer-to-renew-rivalry-with-nadal-rome-final.html 2013-05-18T20:41:02Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2095098-santambrogio-wins-weather-altered-14th-giro-stage.html BARDONECCHIA, Italy (AP) — Mauro Santambrogio of Italy won a weather-affected and altered 14th stage of the Giro d'Italia on Saturday, and favorite Vincenzo Nibali finished second to extend his overall lead. Santambrogio, who rides for Vini Fantini, won in a time of 4 hours, 42 minutes, 55 seconds in in rainy, windy and even snowy conditions, beating Niba... Sat, 18 May 2013 18:48:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2095098-santambrogio-wins-weather-altered-14th-giro-stage.html 2013-05-18T18:48:37Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2095142-union-leads-march-rome-calling-job-creation.html ROME (AP) — 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 creation. FIOM union leader Maurizio Landini said Saturday's protest was held because Italy is "going nowhere" in terms of signs of economic growth amid a stubborn recession. The union is aligne... Sat, 18 May 2013 16:47:55 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2095142-union-leads-march-rome-calling-job-creation.html 2013-05-18T16:47:55Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/tennis/2092794-top-ranked-djokovic-beaten-berdych-rome.html ROME (AP) — 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 back of two early defeats. The top-ranked Serb wasted a chance to serve out the match and was beaten 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 by sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych in the Italian Open quarterfinals Friday. In the s... Fri, 17 May 2013 22:21:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/tennis/2092794-top-ranked-djokovic-beaten-berdych-rome.html 2013-05-17T22:21:02Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2092856-woman-describes-berlusconis-bunga-bunga-parties.html MILAN (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, according to the first public sworn testimony by the Moroccan woman at the center of the sca... Fri, 17 May 2013 18:37:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2092856-woman-describes-berlusconis-bunga-bunga-parties.html 2013-05-17T18:37:09Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2093610-homesick-pope-vatican-opens-argentine-gaucho.html VATICAN CITY (AP) — If Pope Francis is feeling a bit homesick these days, he need only go downstairs to St. Peter's Square. The Vatican on Friday opened an exhibit on Argentine gauchos, the legendary horsemen of the pampas — a show that's been years in the works and coincidentally opened under the first Argentine pope. Officials weren't sure when Francis ... Fri, 17 May 2013 18:06:10 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2093610-homesick-pope-vatican-opens-argentine-gaucho.html 2013-05-17T18:06:10Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2093542-italian-cabinet-passes-economic-measures.html ROME (AP) — Italy's new cross-party government has adopted its first measures to help the economy. They include suspending a tax on primary residences and allocating funds to extend a short-term layoff scheme. The Cabinet also eliminated stipends for the premier and the Cabinet members beyond their base salary as lawmakers. The government allocated 1 bill... Fri, 17 May 2013 17:37:24 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2093542-italian-cabinet-passes-economic-measures.html 2013-05-17T17:37:24Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2092430-european-car-sales-up-time-2011.html MILAN (AP) — The European auto industry may be showing the first signs of a slowdown in its sales free-fall, according to data from the European automaker's association. New car registrations in April were up 1.7 percent on the same time last year, the ACEA's latest figures show. Although the April rise has more to do with the two extra work days last mon... Fri, 17 May 2013 11:13:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2092430-european-car-sales-up-time-2011.html 2013-05-17T11:13:19Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/tennis/2092752-sick-sharapova-withdraws-rome-quarterfinal.html ROME (AP) — Two-time defending champion Maria Sharapova has withdrawn before her Italian Open quarterfinal match against seventh-seeded Sara Errani because of an illness. The announcement comes less than 10 days before the start of the French Open, the year's second Grand Slam, which starts May 26. Sharapova showed no problems as she beat 16th-seeded Sloa... Fri, 17 May 2013 10:33:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/tennis/2092752-sick-sharapova-withdraws-rome-quarterfinal.html 2013-05-17T10:33:57Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2092658-wiggins-hesjedal-withdraw-giro.html BUSSETO, Italy (AP) — Tour de France champion Bradley Wiggins and defending champion Ryder Hesjedal both withdrew from the Giro d'Italia before the start of Friday's 13th stage. Team Sky said that Wiggins made his decision on the advice of the team physician due to "a worsening chest infection." "We monitored Bradley overnight and this morning we've withd... Fri, 17 May 2013 08:37:08 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2092658-wiggins-hesjedal-withdraw-giro.html 2013-05-17T08:37:08Z