Italy Lotto Results for Saturday Feb 18th, 2012

Italy offered Friday to send diplomats to India to help resolve a crisis sparked by the alleged killing of two Indian fishermen by Italian naval officers, as prosecutors opened an enquiry into the incident.

Jarno Trulli has accused Italy of burying its head in the sand and failing to foresee or stave off the current situation that has left the country without a Formula One driver for the first time since 1969.

MILAN (Reuters) - Twenty years after the "Clean Hands" graft scandal swept away Italy's old political system and sent hundreds of people to jail, corruption in the euro zone's third largest economy is worse than ever and has seeped deep into society. "Illegality, corruption...are still notably present in the country," Luigi Giampaolino, head of Italy's audit court, said in a major speech on ...

TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Israel is to buy Italy's M-346 Master advanced jet trainer for its air force after a hotly contested competition for the $1 billion contract.

Italy will reduce its planned order of Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 fighter jets and trim the size of the military as part of defense-spending cuts, Defense Minister Giampaolo Di Paola said.

PARMA, Italy -(Dow Jones)- Italy's economy may stabilize as early as the second half of the year, aided by calmer financial and credit markets, the head of the country's central bank said Saturday.

ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Mario Monti, a Catholic crusading to put Italy's economy in order by ending entrenched privileges such as tax breaks, is striking against an unlikely target - his own Church. Monti's government issued a statement on Wednesday night saying it had informed the European Commission that it would pass a law ending the Church's exemption from local property taxes on its ...

Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti has announced the Vatican must pay taxes on its commercial properties.

The Vatican has been exempt from paying commercial property taxes since 2005 but will now have to fork out for its commercial properties.

Swiss authorities have confiscated $6 trillion in counterfeit U.S. bonds at the request of Italian prosecutors, authorities in Italy said Friday.