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Italy is making headway in IT use but can still do more, according to a report from the Associazione per la convergenza nei servizi di comunicazione or Anfov, an association that promotes and reports on internet use in I...
The Italian council for refugees will present a series of exhibitions and performances in Rome to mark the United Nations (UN) day for the support of torture victims on 26 June.
There will be an exhibition entitled Linf...
The Protestant cemetery in Rome has been listed by the World Monuments Fund as one of the 100 most endangered monuments in the world. Inclusion on the WMFs list for 2006 not only gives the beautiful cemetery close to the...
Say goodbye to boredom on the metro this summer Romes literary jukebox is back in town. Literary Subway 2005 is the fourth edition of the event in which booklets of short stories and poetry are distributed free in metro...
Romano Prodi, leader of the left-wing political alliance LUnione, has announced that primary elections will be held on 8-9 October 2005 to choose a leader for the alliance. Only four people are so far standing as candida...
Romes mayor, Walter Veltroni, has formed a new team to work on the Decoro Urbano. In all, 48 people divided into teams of three will work two shifts a day, six days of the week in various key areas of the city. These tea...
On 21 June Parma officially becomes the home of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), which advises the European Commission on food production methods and safety for all European member states. Silvio Berlusconi, th...
The fifth edition of Rome Hip Hop Parade, the festival dedicated to hip hop and street culture, opens on 20 June. Featuring hip hop dancers from all over Italy, an Italian rap competition, a writing (graffiti) competiti...
The president of the Italy, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, has asked the supreme court to clarify two possibly contradictory articles in the countrys constitution: whether he has the overall power to sign an act of clemency for a...
Celebrated English writer Tim Parks has just published a new book: Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence. It tells the story of the Medici family, and the intriguing, often bloody story...
In a recent development, the Italian supreme court ruled that speed cameras provide sufficient evidence for issuing fines. In this way, penalties are valid against speeding motorists even when they have not been stopped...
With the arrival of the Italian summer the countrys forestry service is stepping up its campaign against forest fires. Although anti-arson measures have been reinforced and the time it takes to put fires out has decrease...
A chance meeting resulted in Anthony Majanlahti penning a book on Rome that is earning favourable reviews. Majanlahti, originally from Toronto, was working as a history researcher at the British School at Rome when he me...
A man walking his dog recently near Capena, in the countryside to the north of Rome, came across what appeared to be a strangely shaped stone. When the dog sniffed it the stone turned into a very aggressive alligator ter...
Fewer Italians are dying from drugs but they are experimenting at ever-younger ages, says a government report. Italian kids are smoking joints from the age of 11, and by 15-16 many are regularly abusing marijuana. Part o...
In 2000 the richest one per cent of Italians owned 17.2 per cent of the countrys national wealth compared with just 10.6 per cent in 1989, according to a Bankitalia study published in Italian daily La Repubblica. The nex...
Three people who have contributed to life here in Rome will be recognised at an award ceremony on 17 June in Rome.
American Edna Goldfield founded the Economy Book and Video Center, an international bookshop, which clos...
Its a scene often played out in Rome sightseers wandering the city and looking on in awe at its treasures, bored children straggling behind. Now a map-guide, newly-translated into English, called Rome for Kids and Famil...
Italys referendum to change the highly conservative 2004 legislation on assisted fertility has not reached the necessary quorum of 50 per cent of the voters plus one. Across the country the turnout average about 26 per c...
Not to be outdone by Paris and Berlin, Rome is bringing the seaside into the city, onto the banks of the river Tiber. From 18 June it will be possible to go to the beach below the walls of the Castel S. Angelo, hire an u...
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