(ANSA) - Milan, September 9 - Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Thursday warned his treble-winning former club Inter Milan that they will not be top dogs in Europe and Italy for much longer after his arrival at their city rivals AC Milan.

The Swede also rubbed Inter's noses into his move to the other side of town after a year at Barcelona, saying Milan's shirt was ''the most beautiful I've ever worn'' at his and Brazil forward Robinho's presentation.

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(ANSA) - Monza, September 9 - Despite being 41 points out of first place in the dhe can still be a contender for this year's title if he does well at Sunday's Italian Grand Prix.

Speaking Thursday at the pre-race press conference, the two-time world champion said "with this new points system, we have seen how the situation can change quickly from race to race".

The Spanish driver, however, admitted that his chances were slimmer after he failed to finish in the last race in Belgium.

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(ANSA) - Pavia, September 9 - Manchester City's Italy forward Mario Balotelli had successful meniscus surgery Thursday and will be out for up to two months, doctors said.

The injury to Balotelli's right knee will keep the 20-year-old out of Italy's Euro 2012 qualifiers against Northern Ireland on October 8th and Serbia on October 12th.

The group goes into hibernation then and Italy resumes its campaign against Slovenia in March.

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(ANSA) - Rome, September 9 - Italian pop star Laura Pausini has been nominated for what could be her fourth Latin Grammy award, and fifth Grammy overall.

Pausini, only the second Italian artist after the legendary Domenico Mudugno to win a Grammy proper, won her third Latin Grammy last November for her hit album 'Primavera anticipada' (Early Spring).

The 36-year-old 'Queen of Italian Pop', who has a huge following in Latin America, has been tapped this year in the Best Long-Form Video category for Laura Live '09, a record of her sell-out world tour last year.

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(ANSA) - Rome, September 9 - Unsafe sex has been rampant among young Italians during the lovemaking high season this summer, according to figures released on Thursday.

A poll of people in 10 Italian cities with an average age just under 19 revealed that half said they are ''not always careful'' and that they only took precautions the ''first time with a new partner''.

The study by the Italian Gynaecology and Obstetrics Society (SIGO) said 6% percent of respondents do not use any form of contraception.

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(ANSA) - Rome, September 9 - Four Italian films are among 46 European movies vying to be nominated for the European Film Awards in December.

The quartet on the European Film Academy shortlist announced Thursday are: La Prima Cosa Bella (The First Beautiful Thing) by Paolo Virzi'; Ferzan Ozpetek's Mine Vaganti (Loose Cannons); Daniele Luchetti's La Nostra Vita (Our Life); and L'Uomo Che Verra' (The Man Who Will Come) by Giorgio Diritti.

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(ANSA) - Monza, September 9 - Ferrari on Thursday unveiled its first online virtual simulator, the Ferrari Virtual Academy, which will be used for an international web tournament.

The simulator was developed in collaboration with Ferrari drivers Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa and Giancarlo Fisichella, together with Scuderia engineers, and virtually offers all the sensations of driving this year's F10 Formula 1 race car.

Ferrari said in a statement that the first release will allow fans from all over the world to compete with each other on the team's Fiorano track.

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(ANSA) - Naples, September 9 - Thursday saw the third suicide this week of an inmate in Naples' Poggioreale prison.

A transsexual prostitute from Puglia sucked on a gas pipe, becoming Italy's 47th jail suicide this year.

Penitentiary union UILPA said 102 attempted suicides, "saved at the last minute", should be added to the tally as testimony of the "depressing" conditions in Italian prisons.

UILPA complained that its "dramatic" message was being censored by the government and the media.

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(ANSA) - Rome, September 9 - Italian elder statesman Giulio Andreotti unleashed a storm of criticism Thursday when he said a widely regarded hero murdered while liquidating a Mafia-linked financier's assets in the 1970s had brought it on himself.

In an interview for a TV programme on the affair, Andreotti, 91, said "I don't want to fill in for the police but certainly (Giorgio Ambrosoli) was someone who 'was asking for it".

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(ANSA) - Rome, September 9 - Italian elder statesman Giulio Andreotti unleashed a storm of criticism Thursday when he said a widely regarded hero murdered while liquidating a Mafia-linked financier's assets in the 1970s had brought it on himself.

In an interview for a TV programme on the affair, Andreotti, 91, said "I don't want to fill in for the police but certainly (Giorgio Ambrosoli) was someone who 'was asking for it".

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