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One people has died, instead of the two as originally thought, in the metro crash in Rome on Tuesday morning. About 100 people were injured, at least five seriously, when two new high-tech trains on the metro A line in...
Referring to the sixth European retail theft barometer, a report on shoplifting which draws on information supplied by Checkpoint Systems, Coldiretti, the organisation of farmers and agricultural businesses, reveals that...
The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso XIV, will be in Rome on Saturday 14 November to receive an honorary degree in biology from the Roma Tre University. The Dalai Lama is both the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and the he...
According to figures under discussion at Cernobbio at a conference to present a survey by the consultancy firm Ambrosetti The European House on old age within the European Union, of the ten cities within the EU with the...
The 30 members of the Vaticans international theological commission, headed by Cardinal Joseph Levada, are recommending to the pope the cancellation of limbo. Limbo is that corner on the borders of hell to which are cons...
An estimated 3.5 million Italians are currently residing outside the bel paese according to a recent report published by Migrantes, an Italian-based religious organisation.
The report, entitled "Italians around the worl...
The number of elderly people taking part in Rome city authorities ten-minute grandparents scheme escorting children across roads around their schools has more than tripled in the last five years.
When the scheme began...
Preparations for Pope Benedict XVIs first visit to Turkey at the end of November are going ahead despite a series of security issues, according to Vatican authorities. On 3 October, the Turkish press printed a message fr...
Around 4,000 people turned out to see the crowning of Mr Gay and Miss Lesbica Roma 2006 in S. Giovanni on 30 September. The winners were chosen from among 30 male finalists and 15 female finalists by a jury including mem...
To keep up with modern times Romes enterprising parish of S. Anastasia al Palatino has recently launched their Pray for Me call centre.
This service is aimed at all those believers who are too busy to pray. From now on...
The government has approved an emergency decree making it illegal to store information collected by unauthorised telephone tappings, to use it as evidence in court or to publish it in the media. All illegal wiretaps must...
The city's safety and order committee has given the go ahead for the installation of videocameras on Rome's most notorious prostitution streets.
Stricter security measures, more street lights, tighter traffic controls a...
Italian postal service Poste Italiane announced the end of the generic postcode for Rome and 27 other cities on 20 September. Until now people posting to a Rome address for which they did not know the postcode could use...
The Mediterranean Shipping Line (MSL), owned by the family of one of Italys most discreet billionaires, Gianluigi Aponte, born in Sorrento in 1940, resident in Geneva, but with Italian passport, is reported to be plannin...
Romes limited traffic zones will be completely pedestrianised between 21.00-06.00 on Sat 9 September during the capitals third Notte Bianca, which sees the citys museums, art galleries and shops stay open throughout the...
In a series of moves that will not surprise those Italians who aspire to the highest ranks of the state cultural bureaucracy, a competition to select 11 superintendents for the minister of culture and fine arts has been...
The number of tourists in Rome has increased by almost 25 per cent between 2004 and 2006, according to regional tourism bureau Ente Bilaterale del Turismo. The number of tourists staying in the capitals hotels has steadi...
Two thirds of Italian employees earn less than 1,300 a month, with 35 per cent earning less than 1,000 a month.
This is what emerged from a research conducted by IRES (the national institute for social and economic res...
More and more Italians are saying "yes" - when in actual fact they would rather answer "no".
This surprising fact emerged from a survey conducted by Riza Psicosomatica, an Italian bodily and mental health magazine, who...
On 1 September Pope Benedict XVI is to make a whistle-stop helicopter tour to the small town of Manoppello in the Abruzzi region in order to pay homage to what many Catholic faithful believe to be the true veil of St Ver...
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