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The popularity of mobile phones with camera facilities has prompted warnings over the possibility of privacy invasion. The Italian privacy authority, Il Garante per la Protezione dei dati personali (www.garanteprivacy.it...
The Italian fiscal police, the Guardia di Finanza, have sent a questionnaire to 30.000 students who study at Rome's universities but come from outside Rome and rent accommodation in the city. The students are asked where...
Pope John Paul II was "breathing for himself" on Friday 25 February after tracheotomy surgery at Policlinico Gemelli hospital in Rome, Vatican officials confirmed. The pontiff was re-admitted to the hospital on Thursday...
This year, the city of Rome marathon will take place on 13 March. The 42-km race will start and finish in Via dei Fori Imperiali, with the route encompassing the citys main monuments and historic sites.
Registration cos...
The patron saint of Ireland will be celebrated at the 14th annual Celtic ball organised by the Irish Club in Rome on 19 March at the Sheraton hotel in EUR. Tickets are e80, or e75 for club members. The proceeds will be s...
The annual Lenten Rice Bowl collection coordinated by Churches Together in Rome, the umbrella organisation for English-speaking churches in the city, is for the parish of the Blessed Guillermo Chaminade in Bogot, Colombi...
The controversial design by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki for the exit to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence has been dropped, at least in its present form. Officially the project has been blocked by the Italys ministry f...
Figures released by the Society for the Performing Arts show that more than three and a half million people attended concerts in Rome in 2004, an increase of 140 per cent on 2003. The increase is attributed in part to se...
Sunday 13 February.
Traffic blocks were imposed in ten Italian cities where fine polluting dust exceeded legal limits.
Pope John Paul II, home from hospital, appeared at his window in the Vatican. He greeted and bles...
Rome city council is setting up a car-sharing scheme. It plans to buy 300, four-seater electric cars; these will be hired out from stands at the major car parks near the city centre, to people who park their vehicles and...
Rome city mayor, Walter Veltroni, presented a 60 million project for a sports complex to be built by 2008 at the Rome University campus at Tor Vergata, on the southern outskirts of the city. The project includes one outd...
The Rome city council will soon begin a complicated move in which 5,000 employees will be transferred into premises in the Ostiense area. Six council departments, currently in offices all over the city, will come under o...
The Capitoline Museums have introduced a facility for visitors who are blind or partially-sighted. A special itinerary has been laid out, with information in Braille and a free audio guide; visitors are also provided wit...
The Kyoto protocol to reduce greenhouse gases came into force at midnight on Tuesday 15 February. But four European Union countries, including Italy, have yet to receive approval for their plans to reduce the polluting c...
The children's department of Rome city council and the city police have joined forces to encourage children to walk to school. More than 700 children from 22 city junior schools are taking part in the first stage of this...
According to the Italian national research councils institute of meteorology, more than 90 per cent of Italian adults consult a weather forecast every day and 18.4 per cent do so more than once a day. With the public bec...
Andrea Carandini, an expert on Roman archaeology, has announced two important discoveries in the Roman Forum. The professor, who has been studying and excavating in the Forum for more than 20 years, revealed that one exc...
After weeks of negotiations and rumours of imminent legal action, the board of Fiat, the Italian vehicle-makers, and that of General Motors, one of Americas leading car manufacturers, have announced that they have reache...
Sunday 6 February.
Pope John Paul II, suffering from complications of influenza, appeared at the open hospital window to bless pilgrims and patients waiting below.
Ireland beat Italy in the first match of the Six Nat...
Police were called in on 11 February to dislodge protesters from outside the civic museum in Mazara del Valle in Sicily, which houses the beautiful 3rd century BC bronze statue called the Dancing Satyr.
The demonstrati...
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