Turin, Italy  - Fiat is set to revive another old name, the Topolino or "Little Mouse," which it is planning to launch as a new mini car in 2010, Germany's auto-motor-sport magazine reports.

The Topolino, built between 1936-1955, is considered the predecessor to the Fiat 500 - another name which the Italian company has revived with the new retro-look Fiat
500.

Rome  - Roma's Montenegro striker Mirko Vucinic was sanctioned with a simple yellow card Tuesday for taking off his shorts as he celebrated his winning goal in his side's 3-2 win over Cagliari.

Vucinic, 25, scored the winner after a series of mistakes and raced in his underwear toward Roma's fans stronghold in the south curve of Rome's Stadio Olimpico.

His act triggered criticism from many commentators, including Sergio Campana, the president of the Italian footballers association (AIC).

Rome - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said Tuesday it needs some 5.2 billion dollars in donor funding to provide aid to some 98 million hungry people in 2009.

"As we take care of Wall Street and Main Street, we can't forget the places that have no streets," WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said in a statement from the Rome-based agency.

She was referring to the appeal which WFP says is a "fraction" of what is being proposed in financial rescue packages to address the global economic downturn.

Munich - An Italian restaurant operator won a lawsuit Tuesday against a German book author who claimed he was a mid-level boss in the 'Ndrangheta organized-crime network in Calabria.

Journalist Petra Reski said she was told by a senior Rome policeman that the Italian, who used to run a pizza bar in the central German city of Erfurt, was under suspicion as a mobster.

But the court in Munich said this could not be proved.

Rome - Italian Serie A strugglers Reggina said Tuesday they have hired

Rome - Italian police arrested Tuesday over 90 Sicilian "Cosa Nostra" mafia suspects in early morning raids carried out in Sicily and in Tuscany, officials said.

Those arrested were allegedly plotting to re-organize Cosa Nostra's command structure under the orders of one of Italy's most wanted mafia bosses, Matteo Messina Denaro, who remains on the run, a police statement said.

Some 1,200 carabinieri paramilitary police, backed by helicopter units and anti-drug dog squads, took part in Tuesday's operation, which was mainly conducted in the area near Palermo, Sicily, the statement said.