RUGBY UNION : Italy have caused a big upset in the new six nations championship by defeating Scotland in Rome.

This year the Italians have joined the four teams from the British Isles, and France.

They beat the Scots by thirty-four points to twenty, with their Argentine-born fly-half Diego Dominguez scoring twenty-nine of them with five penalties, four drop-goals and a conversion.

The Scots had won the championship last year. In the day's other matches, England beat Ireland 50-18, and France beat Wales 36-3.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service