The Italians build their game around a gnarled pack of forwards and some siege-gun kicking, and it always threatened to be a difficult afternoon for the visitors.
BBC: Italy 12-17 England
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Mohamed Merah was killed in a police siege at his flat in Toulouse on Thursday after the gun attacks, in Toulouse and Montauban, which left seven people dead and two wounded.
BBC: Sarkozy urges media not to show Merah shootings video