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Following the application of a new Italian government ruling blocking the price of certain medicines until 2007, the Anti-Trust, the authority responsible for overseeing competition and fair play, has suggested that over...
From 7 June, cartons of fresh, pasteurised milk on sale in Italy must be labelled clearly with the place of its origin, not just where the milk was packed. More than 2.5 million litres of fresh milk are sold daily in Ita...
Reductions are on offer this summer at 30 bathing establishments at Ostia, the Roman seaside resort, under a scheme organised as part of the Romaspendebene campaign. This is an agreement between the city authorities and...
The city of Rome has its first Garden of Remembrance.
A large peaceful garden on a wooded hillside within the Flaminio cemetery at Prima Porta has been specially designed and equipped for the dispersal of cremation ash...
From 5-9 June the Italian capital hosts the UITP World Congress and Exhibition, bringing together leading players in the public transport sector from around the world. The International Union of Public Transport (www.uit...
Excitement mounts especially for golf fans in Rome as the BMW Ladies Italian Open at Parco de Medici draws near. From 2-5 June all eyes will be on young Roman player Federica Piovano, fresh from her very first professi...
Biciroma is an annual event organised in Rome in collaboration with the Associazione due Ruote dItalia. This year, it takes place on Sun 5 June. The aim is to encourage cycling as a fun and alternative method of transpor...
Sunday 5 June will be the first ecological Sunday of the summer.
All traffic will be banned from the zones limited to traffic in Romes historic centre, sector G in Trastevere and on the Via Appia Antica. Traffic is fre...
Thursday 2 June is Itays national holiday to celebrate the foundation of the republic in 1946. Festivities begin at 09.00 when the president of the republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, lays a wreath on the tomb of the unknown...
A new monitoring system is launched on 1 June to guard against the summer heatwave. Officials from 12 participating cities (Milan, Turin, Bologna, Rome, Brescia, Genoa, Palermo, Naples, Bari, Florence, Catania, Venice) a...
The bodies of four Italian soldiers, killed yesterday in a helicopter crash in Iraq, arrive around midnight tonight at Rome Ciampino military airport. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he was deeply pained by the sol...
Presenting the Italian central banks annual report, Governor Antonio Fazio rubbed salt in the wounds of the Italian economy, confirming the country is now in recession and deploring the impact on public finances. With gr...
The Italian association for historic houses (Associazione Dimore Storiche Italiane) and Italys telecommunications operator, Telecom Italia, are offering the public the opportunity to see works by three great artists in t...
Pope Benedict XVI is supporting calls to boycott an Italian referendum on assisted fertility, scheduled for 12-13 June. In the referendum, which requires a 50 per cent plus one vote turnout to be valid Italians, will be...
Traffic to the south of Italy has been delayed over the past few days following the discovery of two bombs both of them dropped by the Allies during world war two which have been uncovered during excavations for buildi...
Cases of infections caught by patients in Italian hospitals are now running at up to 700,000 per year, says a report by lOspedale Spallanzani di Roma. The Infinos 2 survey is the largest study of its kind carried out in...
Tuesday 31 May will be another day of local public transport strikes all over Italy. In Rome the buses, trams, metro and trolley buses will strike from 08.30 to 17.00 and then again from 20.00 to 24.00.
The transport wo...
Italians are the largest consumers of mineral water in the world, drinking 189 litres per head last year compared with 69 litres per head in the United States. In Italy there are177 producers, marketing 265 different bra...
Local shopkeepers and bar owners are infuriated by an outbreak of robberies and break-ins in Via Conca dOro situated in Romes IV municipality, in Montesacro. The area is north-east of the city centre sandwiched just off...
The 18th Ladies Italian Open was officially presented at the Bernini Bristol Hotel on Thursday 26 May, the opening speech being delivered by the deputy mayor of Rome, Maria Pia Garavaglia. The traditional Pro-Am competit...
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