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Italian business association Confesercenti has hit back at reports that bars across Italy have raised the price of espresso in the last month. According to national daily Corriere della Sera, many people returned from th...
Six scuba divers are spending two weeks at the bottom of the sea at Cala Feola on the island of Ponza from 8-22 September. The three men and three women, who will remain submerged for the entire period, are taking part i...
Over 15 people have been arrested in Florence in a controversial crackdown on car windscreen washers launched at the end of August. The arrested cleaners
Star-gazers hoping to wish upon a falling star this summer may have to wait a little longer than normal as the annual Perseids meteor shower, which is usually most visible on the feast of St Lawrence on 10 August, is ex...
City gardeners will be taking their chainsaws to several hundred plane trees and false acacias this August as part of annual pruning operations in Rome. Roads affected include the Circonvallazione Gianicolense along the...
The government has introduced a state of natural disaster in central and southern regions following a series of devastating forest fires over the past several days. Specific measures for the affected regions, including t...
Forest fires sweeping areas of central and southern Italy are mainly the work of arsonists, according to state authorities. Over 300 fires were reported on 24 July, with most occurring in Campania, Lazio and Calabria. Fo...
Old mobile phones can now be disposed of safely, thanks to a project by Rome city council, city waste disposal unit AMA and Vodafone Italia. Phones, batteries and accessories can now be dropped off at any of the 60 Vodaf...
The Italian branch of the International Organization for Animal Protection (OIPA) has once again asked people not to abandon pets in advance of the summer holidays. Every year a large number of animals including dogs, ca...
The auction for troubled national airline Alitalia fell through on 18 July after the final potential bidder withdrew ahead of the 23 July deadline for firm offers. US buyout fund MatlinPatterson Global Advisers said it w...
Decreasing water levels in the river Po are putting Italian agricultural production at risk, according to a new study by environmental protection agency APAT. Water levels in the 675 km-long river have fallen by 20-25 pe...
Rome city council has got together with landlord and tenant trade unions to create a renting agency for students attending universities in the capital. The initiative is aimed particularly at so-called
The Senate Justice Committee is examining a revised version of the so-called DICO draft bill, which proposes financial and next-of-kin rights for non-married couples. The new version, or CUS (from
The price of pasta is set to rise by 20 per cent in Italian supermarkets from the autumn, according to the Italian pasta manufacturers
Theories as to the origin of the ancient Etruscan civilization, which flourished from roughly 800 BC, or even earlier, until its final domination by Rome in 100 BC, have fired the imagination of historians for millennia....
Rome mayor Walter Veltroni has withdrawn the capital as a host city candidate for the 2016 summer Olympic Games. The decision was made following the Olympic Committee
Theories as to the origin of the ancient Etruscan civilization, which flourished from roughly 800 BC, or even earlier, until its final domination by Rome in 100 BC, have fired the imagination of historians for millennia....
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