LAUSANNE – The IOC took a big step toward reintegrating Russia and Belarus into world sports Thursday by advising governing bodies to let the countries’ youth teams and athletes compete with their ...

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Italian food is known and loved around the world for its fresh ingredients and palate-pleasing tastes, but the U.N.’s ...

For her first Olympics as IOC president Kirsty Coventry could probably order up a helicopter if she so desired to get from ...

A preliminary cauldron has been lit by the Olympic flame at Italy’s presidential palace as the countdown to the Milan Cortina ...

More than five centuries ago, a small number of style icons used flamboyant, luxurious looks to give them influence and power during a turbulent period of Italian history.

Giuliano da Empoli’s slim volume The Hour of the Predator may be little, but it is fierce. In the book’s 144 pages, the Swiss-Italian novelist (The Wizard of the Kremlin), political scientist and ...

The House of Borgia, one of the most infamous families of the Renaissance, is synonymous with ambition, power, and scandal. Pope Alexander VI, born Rodrigo Borgia, epitomizes their controversial ...

St. Francis Borgia was born on Oct. 28, 1510, in Spain. He was the son of the Duke of Gandia, the great grandson of Pope Alexander VI, on his father’s side, and of King Ferdinand of Aragon on his ...

Tom Borgia was already well-known among the West Morris and surrounding football community by the time he reported to camp the summer ahead of his freshman year. A heavily-recruited lineman in grade ...

The name Borgia is synonymous in history with treachery, hedonism, and scandal. Along with the equally infamous Medicis, they were one of the most powerful families in Renaissance Italy. From lusty ...