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They call him the Italian moose. Roberto Guidoni, 53, is a small farmer from near Brescia in northern Italy. In the next few days he is expected to win one of the most gruelling races in the world for the third time. The...
The president of Italy Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has awarded Nicola Calipari the "Medaglia d'oro al Valor Militare alla memoria".
Calipari was killed by United States troops while driving with the Italian hostage Giuliana Sg...
Only a month ago, the European Union gave the Bank of Italy a telling off, saying that the Italian banking market was "too closed" to foreigners. It suggested that the Bank of Italy was not encouraging foreign participat...
Following the example of France, Switzerland and Belgium, Rome city council has set aside Saturday 7 May as its first "Neighbours Day". Condominiums all over the city are being invited to organise festive gatherings eith...
Atac and Metrobus, the Rome city council transport companies, launched eight new bus routes on Monday 21 March. The routes provide better links between metro and suburban train stations and makes access to the new immigr...
Both Michael Schumacher and Ferrari have for many years seemed unbeatable. The sight of the tall imposing German standing on the podium risked becoming repetitive, as did the smiling diminutive figure of Ferrari team bos...
Sunday 13 March.
Police discovered that 24 out of 100 petrol stations between Milan and Florence were delivering 49 litres of petrol for every 50 litres shown on the pump.
Monday 14 March.
Favourable weather conditi...
Pope John II will not be leading the celebrations of Holy Week as usual. The Vatican has announced that the pope will instead participate from his apartments. The pope is still recovering in the Vatican after a tracheoto...
Anti-terrorism, drug-trafficking, corruption. These are just a few of the reasons given for the increasing use of line tapping by the authorities in Rome. Echoing a nationwide change, listening in on phone calls in the L...
In Italy the state holds vast amounts of data on its citizens thanks to a penchant for completed forms that borders on the paranoid. But if Italians thought that their personal details were 100 per cent safe in the state...
Having claimed Italy's troops would be withdrawn from Iraq at the end of 2005, prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was forced to eat his words following international reaction.
After conversations with, among others, Unit...
With pollution levels in Rome once again over the permitted levels, Thursday 17 March will be the tenth day of restricted traffic in the city. Vehicles with licence plates ending with an odd number will not be allowed to...
Two years after publication of the novel, "The Da Vinci Code", and following worldwide sales of more than 25 million copies, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Archbishop of Genoa, has joined the ranks of other prominent theolog...
AS Roma, the Rome city football team, has changed coach for the fourth time in less than a year. The troubles began when Fabio Capello, who had trained the team since 1999, left at the end of the 2003-04 season to coach...
The extreme right party of Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of Italy's war-time dictator, is furious after being struck off ballot papers for upcoming regional elections in Lazio. All political parties taking part in...
With intermittent sunshine, a strong turnout along the roadside and over 10,000 participants in the 2005 edition of the Rome Marathon, this years 26 mile endurance test would have lived up to expectations but for the dea...
Sunday 6 March. Giancarlo Fisichella, Formula 1 racing driver who comes from the Tiburtina area of Rome, won the first race of the season, the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, driving for Renault.
An illegal trade...
The city council has laid down new regulations for the Caldarroste the roast chestnut sellers in Romes historic centre. Traditionally the chestnut sellers sit in winter beside their low, red-hot braziers, rolling the d...
Walter Veltroni, mayor of the city of Rome, has paid a visit to the new police immigration office in Via Teofilo Patini on the eastern outskirts of the city. The office, which opened five months ago, is directed by Marce...
Coldiretti, the association representing more than 50 per cent of Italian farmers, has released figures showing changes in Italian dietary habits. The consumption of bread has dropped from 1.4 million tons in 2000 to 1 m...
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