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Page last updated at 16:23 GMT, Saturday, 7 November 2009 Italy in control in Fed Cup final Pennetta made amends for losing to Glach at this year's French Open Flavia Pennetta and Francesca Schiavone earned straight-sets wins to give...

In this article: Fed Cup, Francesca Schiavone, Melanie Oudin, Flavia Pennetta, US Open, and Roberta Vinci

REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy (AP) - Alexa Glatch and Melanie Oudin have lost in straight sets to give Italy a 2-0 lead over the United States in the Fed Cup final. Glatch lost to Flavia Pennetta 6-3, 6-1 and Francesca Schiavone rallied after a...

In this article: Alexa Glatch, Fed Cup, Melanie Oudin, Flavia Pennetta, Francesca Schiavone, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, United States, and Reggio Calabria

...and RAI," Cielo General Manager Gary Davey said. Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's News Corp dominates Italy's pay-TV market through its Sky Italia satellite broadcasting unit but Mediaset, owned by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and...

In this article: News Corp, Mediaset, RAI, Rupert Murdoch, Silvio Berlusconi, and Milan

...Doris Leuthard, visiting Rome on Thursday in the midst of row, said her country was willing to sign a double taxation treaty with Italy but only if it was removed from a blacklist of tax havens. Italy's conservative government, which...

In this article: Tax, Switzerland, and Rome

...police at the time of his abduction on suspicion of recruiting militants for Iraq, was secretly flown from Aviano airbase in northeast Italy via Ramstein base in Germany to Egypt, where he says he was tortured and held until 2007 without...

In this article: CIA, United States, Milan, Human Rights Watch, Silvio Berlusconi, and Daniel Flynn

...three of the Americans were covered by diplomatic immunity, but not a handful of others who had held official U.S. government posts in Italy. Most of the defendants, operating under assumed names, arrived in Italy a few weeks before the...

In this article: CIA, Defendant, Milan, Rome, U.S. Air Force, and Washington

...at the Rome embassy. U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Romano, head of security at the U.S. air base in Aviano in northerneast Italy, was also charged with taking part in the abduction. Seven Italians also faced charges, including...

In this article: CIA, Joseph Romano, United States, Milan, and Rome

...that "if a religion is strong, if it has faith in its ability to create faith, then it does not need special protection". Some right wing politicians have said that Italy's Christian roots should be enshrined in the country's constitution.

In this article: Catholicism, God, Europe, European Court of Human Rights, Vatican, and Pumpkin

Italy vows to fight for classroom crucifixes A woman holds a crucifix while she listens to Pope Benedict XVI's message in August. Italy vows to fight European court ruling banning crucifixes in classrooms Court ruled Tuesday that display...

In this article: God, Catholic Church, U.S., Strasbourg, European Court of Human Rights, Rome, and Vatican

...was "wrong and myopic" to try to exclude a symbol of charity from education. The ruling by the court in Strasbourg, which Italy said it would appeal, said crucifixes on school walls -- a common sight that is part of every Italian's life --...

In this article: Vatican, European Court of Human Rights, Democratic Party, Reuters Television, Strasbourg, Europe, Rome, and Catholicism