Roman-born Ranieri takes charge of AS Roma

AS Roma needs a "jolt" to snap out of its early season funk and return to its place as a Serie A contender, Claudio Ranieri said Wednesday at his introduction as the club's new coach.

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Luciano Spalletti resigns as AS Roma coach

Luciano Spalletti resigned as AS Roma's coach Tuesday after the team opened its Serie A season with two losses.

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Soccer Team Must Play at Empty Stadium

AS Roma was ordered to play its next home match at a neutral venue without spectators after its fans displayed Nazi and fascist symbols during last Sunday's match against Livorno.

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Four neo-Nazis were arrested in recent days for a spate of horrific killings of Roma in Hungary, where economic woes and the rise of race-bating right-wing parties has exacerbated existing ethnic tensions. Now, the Roma minority is moving to organize its defense.

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Roma right-back Cicinho insists that while he is flattered by Barcelona's reported interest, he is seeking a return to Brazil. Speculation is rife that Barca are set to make a 10million euro offer for Cicinho, who is under contract at the Giallorossi until 2012.

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Obama Holocaust Denial in Buchenwald & Cairo Speeches

Obama's speech at Buchenwald ignored non-Jewish victims. The "annual death rate" of US-occupied Afghan infants (7.0%) is between that of Buchenwald inmates (2.9%) and WW2 Australian POWs of the Japanese (10.1%).

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I've often decried the Jewish establishment's attempt to make the Holocaust a solely Jewish experience.

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Race relations in Italy are incredibly poor in light of new immigration and tensions between citizens and immigrants, especially the Roma community.

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Riots and street battles are set to spread through Bulgaria, Romania and the Baltic states as inflation, unemployment and racism fuel tension, reports Jason Burke

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According to Italian human rights organisation Opera Nomadi, approximately 160,000 Roma currently live in Italy. Most of them inhabit improvised camps on the outskirts of towns.

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Lesson of Kristallnacht: "where unchecked racism and intolerance can lead and underscores our responsibility as human beings to ensure that such evil is always confronted whenever and wherever it occurs".

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Inter pull clear in Serie A after demolishing Roma

Last season a game between Roma and Inter would have been a real attraction, but Roma are pretty lacklustre this season and tonight was to be no exception. They now have just seven points from seven games and look to be a ghost of last years runners-up.

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Where there is hatred, let me sow Love

Hello, my friends!!

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"African immigrants have rioted in Spain after a Senegalese man was stabbed to death in the street of a southern town. Police said the rampage began in the early hours of Sunday, and led to houses and cars being set on fire. "

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The International Federation of Journalists today called for a "wide-ranging and honest" debate within Bulgarian journalism over intolerance in media following the presentation of a journalism prize by press owners to a reporter who has a reputation for hate-speech.

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For generations, millions of Roma and Sinti people - often referred to as gypsies - have been excluded from mainstream schools in Europe. But the European Court of Human Rights ruled last year that this was discrimination, against the continent's largest ethnic minority.

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It is an image that shocked the world: two young Gypsy children lie dead for three hours on an Italian beach while, feet away, a carefree couple enjoy a leisurely picnic.

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Bloomberg reports: Rebecca Covaciu, like most little girls, likes to draw pictures of the things she knows best: Her brother playing the accordion for spare change, a self-portrait as she begs for money to buy food, a shack under a bridge.

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Roma

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AS Roma is on the verge of signing Marseille's ex-Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse', sources close to the French international said Thursday. Cisse's agent will meet Roma representatives in Rome Friday, the sources said.

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I am horrified and have no idea how to react to this. It's a photo of two drowned Roma (gypsy) girls on a beach -- while partying vacationers enjoy themselves all around, paying the dead girls no mind.

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Photos of sunbathers next to drowning victims on a beach have sparked outrage. See more irresistible headlines

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Questions about the attitude of Italians to their Roma minority were again being asked yesterday after photographs were published of sunbathers continuing as normal with a day at the beach despite the bodies of two Gypsy girls who had drowned being laid out on the sand nearby.

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Gypsies and Travellers in the UK are uniting to form a nationwide coalition to fight what they describe as rapidly escalating levels of racism and discrimination.

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Around 80,000 gipsy children are to be fingerprinted by the Italian authorities under a new scheme that has drawn comparisons to the policies of Benito Mussolini.

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Protestors took to the streets in Rome as evictions marked the start of the campaign ordered by the city's new mayor in the wake of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's crack down on the perceived lawlessness of the Italy's 150,000-strong Roma population.

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A class of primary school children in Naples has shocked Italy after submitting homework which supported the burning of gypsy camps.

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Philippe Mexes and Simone Perrotta scored to give AS Roma a 2-1 win over Serie A champions Inter Milan at Rome's Stadio Olimpico on Saturday to retain the Italian Cup. French defender Mexes glided unmarked into the area to smack a David Pizarro corner past the near post and open …

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