Armstrong hits out at Italian investigation
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Six-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong may come under further investigation in Italy in relation to his trainer&#39;s drug charges.
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Rome - Italy sought on Thursday to play down the credibility of two claims for the murder of two Italian aid workers, both young women, taken hostage in Iraq, but failed to ease gnawing anguish over their fate.
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Italy&#39;s Prime Minister Romano  Prodi was berated by angry voters on Sunday who want him to  stop the United States expanding an air base near their homes.
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''Le mie vittorie sono pulite, non ci sono ombre''. Lance Armstrong replica cosÃ¬ all'articolo del Ne...
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The Crown Prosecution Service is due to react to criticisms made at an inquest into four cyclists' deaths.
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Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has slammed the refusal by European lawmakers to endorse Italy's candidate for justice commissioner because of his views on gays as an attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his centre-right government.
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Organisers of the Tour of Britain say they will learn from criticism of their handling of this year's race.
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ROME, Sept 23  - Italy sought on Thursday to play down the credibility of two claims about the murder of two Italian aid workers, both young women, taken hostage in Iraq but failed to ease gnawing anguish over their fate.
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Finance police have raided Italy&#39;s Olympic Committee and the committee organising the 2006 Winter Games, investigative sources say.
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Finance police have raided the offices of Italy&#39;s Olympic organizers for records on the Turin committee&#39;s work ahead of the 2006 Winter Games, officials said on Thursday.
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The attorney for cyclist Floyd Landis took issue with the international cycling federation for leaking the results of the Tour de France winner's positive "A" sample drug test, saying it breached the organization's own rules.
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One of Italy's top cycling officials says doping allegations against Ivan Basso are unsupportable.
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ROME - A diplomatic row has erupted between Italy and the European Parliament after the latter rejected an anti-gay Italian minister as a European commissioner.
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Defending Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso should be banned from cycling for 21 months because of his involvement in the Spanish doping scandal, Italian Olympic Committee prosecutors recommended Friday.
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CALA D'OR, Spain  - If six times Tour de France  winner Lance Armstrong decides not to ride this year's event, a  victory in Paris on July 24 would be diminished his German  rival Jan Ullrich said Tuesday.
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Like a cyclist who can't shake his pursuers, the Tour de France continues to be dogged by the cloud of doping. Race leader Michael Rasmussen became the latest rider to face scrutiny Friday when he had to answer why he had been kicked off the national team for failing to report his whereabouts for drug-testing purposes.
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The Italian businessman at the centre of a furious row between France and Italy over whose intelligence service was to blame for bogus documents suggesting Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy material for nuclear ...