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 And, at last, it was Italy's turn. After France, Gremany and Spain, even the Italian authorities eventually voiced their concerns over the US National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance programs. 

Italian cinema legend Sophia Loren has won a 39-year tax battle with the courts in her home country.The dispute was over the taxes the actress should have paid in 1974.The row between the 79-year-old and the courts over her tax issues became so heated over the years she even served a brief spell in jail. 

Italy has introduced more flexible sanctions against racism and regional discrimination after ultras threatened to deliberately provoke bans in protest at recent clampdowns. Inter Milan's Ultras, the Curva Nord, last week started a campaign inciting all supporters to break rules simultaneously with the intention of having an entire weekend where all the matches would be played behind closed doors. 

 A group of Miss Italy contestants turned up at the finals to the pageant with the words "neither nude nor mute" scrawled on their T-shirts in a protest against a female Italian politician who condemned the event as outdated and sexist.