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 MILAN – A ton of player signings have made for a hectic summer at Casa Milan as club managers splurged on a new foreign legion funded by 70 million euros garnere

 PALERMO, Sicily - A group of eight students from Rotterdam, known as ‘Heart to Handle,’ has completed a 2,750 kilometre bicycle journey to Palermo to fund research and spread awareness on heart di

 ROME - - Athletes from the Vatican City, as part of a team known as Athletica Vaticana, are competing at the World Cycling Championships in Glasgow.

 MILAN - - The International Fencing Federation has reinstated Ukrainian fencer Olga Kharlan after she refused to shake hands with her Russian rival, Anna Smirnova, at the Fencing World C

 FUKUOKA, JAPAN - - Italy’s Thomas Ceccon has won gold at the World Swimming Championships while Nicolò Martinenghi has scooped up a silver medal.

 MILAN - - A tricky diplomatic situation has ensued following Russia’s reinstatement at the Fencing World Championships in Milan while Kiev has boycotted the event. 

 FUKUOKA, JAPAN - - Italy has won gold in the 4 x 1.5 KM open water relay at the World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka.

 By Michael Mewshaw

 ROME - - The figure of the super-rich who have moved to Italy to benefit from a lower, flat-rate tax is now 2,142, according to a recent report by the Italian Court of Auditors. 

 FONTENO -- Alpine Rescue workers have rescued a 31-year-old Italian woman potholer who had been trapped in a cave 150 M below the suface in northern Italy since Sunday afternoon, rescue

 ROME – On Sunday, the Novak Djokovic Foundation hosted a charity gala dinner at the Lantern, via Tomacelli, in Rome to raise funds by auctioning off Djokovic’s Australian Open winning racket.

 ROME - The AC Milan star, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, has announced that he is retiring from football saying "the time has come to say goodbye to football.” The striker's contract expires at the end of Ju

 ROME — Members of Rome’s Foreign Press Football Club have paid tribute

 ROME - Last Sunday, in the crowded streets of the Eternal City, the 106^th edition of the Tour of Italy, a gruelling multi-stage cycling race, ended.

  ROME -  On Tuesday, it was announced that Matteo Manfredi, Principal of Gestio Capital, and Andrea Radrizzani, Chairman of Aser Group, had concluded a deal to acquire the Unione Calcio Sampdoria.

BRUSSELS - Italian sprinter Alberto Dainese won a photo finish at the end of stage 17 of the Tour of Italy. His compatriot, Jonathan Milan, again finished second.

 TBLISI - The young Georgian football star has revealed his special nickname.

 ROME -  Juventus has been penalised 10 points in the Serie A standings for alleged false accounting.

 BERGAMO - In Sunday’s heavy stage, American Brandon McNulty beat this year’s revelation, Irishman Ben Healy, and Italian Marco Frigo in a tight sprint.