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A Remembrance Day ceremony to commemorate the Commonwealth war dead will be held in Rome at the Via Zabaglia military cemetery on Tuesday 11 November. Participants are asked to arrive punctually by 10.45 in order to obse...
Sales of residential housing in the province of Rome increased by 24.55 per cent in 2002 compared with the previous year, and in the city of Rome they increased by 32.1 per cent, according to a report just published on R...
The Keat-Shelley Memorial Association opened its centenary celebrations with plays, poetry readings and a gala dinner in Rome on 29 Oct. The association was formed in 1903 to buy the house at the foot of the Spanish Step...
Romans are learning to recycle their rubbish. 14 percent of all waste in Rome is now recycled, up from 5.6 percent in 2001. So far this year 60,000 tonnes less waste have been sent to landfills and incinerators than last...
There will be 2.5 million legally-registered immigrants in Italy by the end of this year, according to the annual report by the Catholic relief agency Caritas.
By the end of this year the percentage of immigrants to po...
The Italian economy is less competitive on world markets than last year, according to the annual Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum. This year Italy is placed 41 on a list of 102 countries, eight p...
How environmental are we?
The town Cremona in the Lombardy region in north-eastern Italy has been billed the most ecological city in the country according to the environmental association Legambiente, which has been mon...
A general strike has been called for 24 October by all three major unions, with a four-hour walk-out planned by workers to protest the pensions reforms announced by prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Buses, trams, metros...
A project to make Italy's banks more user-friendly was launched in October with a service that tells clients where to find their closest working automatic teller machine (ATM) by telephone (800 002266) or internet (www.p...
The number of weddings in Italy is on the wane but the cost of that special day continues to rise, according to data from the "Milano sposi" fair held earlier in October. In 1960, 400,000 weddings were held compared with...
Violinist Maxim Vengerov will play his Stradivarius in Rome after a seven-year absence at a concert on 24 October to raise funds for the Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano (FAI), the organisation which rescues threatened prop...
There are 16 million overweight people in Italy and 5.4 million who are defined obese, an increase of 25 percent in the last five years. In Rome one child out of six is obese and one out of three is overweight. To discov...
A musical celebrating the life of the late Mother Teresa of Calcutta is being performed in Rome to coincide with her beatification on Sun 19 Oct by Pope John Paul II. The show combines songs and dance routines with scene...
Pope John Paul II celebrated his 25th anniversary as pontiff with a Mass at 18.00 in St Peter's Square on Thurs 16 Oct. The occasion marked the beginning of another busy week for the frail 83-year-old pope, who attended...
Romes busy Sunday antiques and collectors' markets are once again in full swing. The Porta Portese market held on Via Portuense and adjacent streets is the most famous, but there are many others worth a visit. The Ponte...
Italians make up 38 per cent of all those who lost their lives as a result of floods in Europe between 1980 and 2002, according to research commissioned by the European Union. The largest number of floods occurred in Fra...
Italian children receive record amounts of homework from their teachers. Along with students from France, Russia and South Africa, they do an average two hours' homework a day, while American children do less than an hou...
Italy's civil aviation authority (ENAC) has reported serious deficiencies in the security checks carried out at many Italian airports, including Rome's Fiumicino. Inspectors sent to various airports carrying explosives o...
The Palladium in Rome's popular Garbatella district went from being an elegant local theatre in the 1920s to a concert venue-cum-nightclub with darkened interiors and sound levels in the 1980s and 90s that were the bane...
Rome's city council has just launched a campaign to ensure that its employees communicate more clearly and concisely with residents; especially when it comes to forms and paperwork. A manual and cd-rom have been created...
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