Italy
Business

Shares in soccer side AS Roma fell sharply on Monday after the Italian first division leaders lost 3-1 to Fiorentina, recording only their third league defeat of the season.
Business

Britain's foot-and-mouth crisis hit the Six Nations on Tuesday when the game between Wales and Ireland in Cardiff on Saturday was postponed in an effort to help prevent the spread of the disease.

Soccer's world governing body FIFA has asked its member countries to take firm action against anyone involved in the falsification of passports.

Soccer legend Diego Maradona was met on his arrival in Rome on Thursday by tax authorities and police who told him he owed about 50 billion lire ($24.6 million) to Italian tax authorities, police sources said.

European champions Real Madrid were voted the FIFA team of the 20th century on Monday.
Business

FIFA says its has no plans to sanction Italian club Perugia for going to court to obtain a ruling which enabled Argentine Pablo Guinazu to play in a Serie A match at the weekend.
Stadia

Italian soccer sides AC Milan and Napoli have been fined a total of 45 million lire ($19,450) for crowd trouble at their weekend league matches.
Business

AC Milan and Lazio want restrictions on foreign players in Italian soccer lifted with Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani even threatening court action to end the current regulations.
Business

Soccer's world governing body FIFA are preparing for another showdown with the European Union over a transfer case that could threaten the foundations of the professional club game.
Business

Italian media mogul, soccer club owner and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has sparked the resignation of the coach of the country?s soccer team.
Events

The recent MotoGP in Italy broke new TV viewer records for the sport ? according to figures just released.
Business

Mike Tyson's May 20 fight against fellow American Lou Savarese in Milan has been delayed.
Business

Italian soccer club Inter Milan is planning to launch its own digital television channel in May.
Media

Italian Serie A club Lazio has said it plans to leave Rome's Olympic stadium and move to a new ground.
Business

Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, will present Primo Nebiolo's widow with a major award at a memorial service for the late IAAF president in Rome this week.
Business

The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) said on Wednesday it had summoned Amore Vita cycling team director Gianluigi Barsottelli to a hearing on January 7 over doping allegations. CONI said in a statement its anti-doping commission had summoned Barsottelli after studying documents from Bologna magistrates who have been conducting a wide-ranging investigation into alleged doping in cycling. A spokesman for the Italian Professional Cyclists' League said Barsottelli's team was affiliated to the English cycling federation this year.
Events

World Cycling Limited (WCL) and the Polish Cycling Federation have announced the founding of the Solidarity Cup, an international friendship series consisting of two major cycling events in Poland and the United States.
Events

European soccer champions Real Madrid have bolstered their commercial operation with the appointment of UK based merchandising consultants Zone signed Deloitte & Touche.