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A weather warning has been issued for Rome and the Lazio region, beginning on the morning of Wednesday 2 October 2019 and lasting for the following 12-18 hours.
The weather alert, issued by civil protection authoritie...
The Nicholas Effect: How the tragic killing of seven-year-old Nicholas Green transformed Italy’s attitudes to organ donation and transplants.At the end of September 1994 a seven-year old American boy, Nicholas Green (9 S...
US Secretary of State holds talks with Mattarella, Conte and Pope Francis.
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Rome's Ciampino airport on 1 October, on his first official visit to Italy.
Pompeo's first ap...
Rome's oldest restaurant challenges Madrid restaurant for world title.
La Campana, the oldest restaurant in Rome, has asked the Guinness Book of Records to accept it as the rightful owner of the "world's oldest restaura...
Faith in public services and quality of life ratings continues to fall in Rome.
All 18 of the city's public services, with the exception water, have recorded a decline in the 12th survey by the agency for the control an...
Frequent rip-offs are the despair of tourists.Every few weeks, social media and newspapers tell of yet another attempted – or even successful – scam somewhere in Italy, from Venice to Palermo, ripping off foreign custome...
Skeletons of woman and child dug up outside Piramide Station.
Two more human skeletons have been unearthed during works in Rome's Piazzale Ostiense, outside the Piramide metro station, days after another skeleton was di...
Newly-returned culture minister freezes counter-reforms of predecessor.
The administration of Italy's National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia in Rome is currently in a state of limbo after a contentious decree abolishi...
Rome hosts major alumni event for Fulbright Programme in Italy.
For the first time in the history of the Fulbright Programme in Italy, scholars from 1948 - the year in which the Fulbright Commission was created - up to...
€430 bill defended by owner of Rome bar-restaurant.
Two Japanese tourists were charged €349 for two plates of spaghetti al cartoccio di pesce, with water, at the Antico Caffè di Marte on Via Banco di S. Spirito in the h...
“The partnership must remain strong after Brexit.”
An opinion survey in the run-up to Brexit confirms the affinity between Italians and the United Kingdom and highlights what over eight out of ten Italians wish for the...
Racist fan banned from AS Roma games for life.
Rome football club AS Roma has issued a fan with a life-long ban from attending AS Roma games after he sent racist messages via social media to Brazilian defender Juan Jesu...
€200,000 worth of jewellery stolen in daring robbery at five-star hotel near Spanish Steps in central Rome.
A man posing as an air conditioning technician stole €200,000 worth of jewellery from a room at Rome's five-sta...
Anne Frank is once again the target of anti-Semitic graffiti in Rome.
Rome authorities have removed graffiti against Anne Frank from a wall on Via dei Durantini in the Pietralata district, on the outskirts of Rome.
T...
A security guard at Rome's Tiburtina station was stabbed and disarmed by a man who used the pistol to kill himself. The incident took place on the evening of 26 September, in the tunnel of the Metro B line, according to...
Annual blood drive of Rome's international students and expat residents.
Doctors in Italy, an association of English-speaking doctors, is organising a blood drive at Piazza S. Lorenzo in Lucina, just off Via del Corso,...
Elegant bike ride raises awareness for prostate cancer and men's mental health.
The Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, which raises funds and awareness for prostate cancer research, will take place at the Obelisk in the EU...
School students and adults to attend Italy's climate change protests on 27 September.
Many Rome schools will authorise their pupils' attendance at the Friday for Future climate change demonstrations in the capital on 27...
When visitors think of Rome, most think of the ancient sites like the Colosseum, the Pantheon or the Roman Forum. Some think of the great restaurants, while others think of the fabulous fashions. But Rome is also a gr...
19 ATAC buses and four Roma TPL buses catch fire in Rome so this year.Rome's public transport company ATAC is carrying out an investigation after one of its buses caught fire while in service in the Bufalotta area of the...
Three bus drivers attacked in Rome in recent days.Trade unions representing Rome's public transport sector have called a two-hour bus strike on Thursday 26 September in protest over increasing cases of violence against t...
Mediaeval church of S. Maria Antiqua in the Roman Forum.
The sixth-century S. Maria Antiqua church in the Roman Forum, one of Rome’s earliest surviving Christian monuments, can be visited as part of the S.U.P.E.R. ticke...
Rome organises tours of rarely-opened underground sites.
More than 30 of Rome's underground sites which normally have limited public access will open for special guided tours between September and December.
The guide...
Norton will take part in public conversation at Rome Film Fest.
Edward Norton’s new drama, Motherless Brooklyn, will be the opening night film at the 2019 Rome Film Fest, which takes place from 17-27 October at the Audi...
Colosseum standard ticket price to rise by one third from 1 November.
The cost of standard tickets at the Colosseum are to increase from €12 to €16 from 1 November 2019.
The tickets, which are valid for one day, also...
Price hike reportedly part of contract between Trenitalia and Lazio Region.
The cost of tickets on Rome's public transport network is to increase from the current €1.50 to €2, from 2023, according to a report in Italian...
Collapse of world's oldest holiday company triggers Britain's largest repatriation effort in history.
UK tour operator Thomas Cook collapsed in the early hours of 23 September, stranding an estimated 150,000 British hol...
Honorary citizenship for Rome-born astronaut.
Rome is set to confer honorary citizenship on astronaut Michael Collins on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, according to an announcement by the city's may...
Rome workers unearth human skeleton outside Piramide metro station.
A human skeleton has been unearthed during road works in Rome's Piazzale Ostiense, outside the Piramide metro station and across the street from the fi...
Designer Misha Nonoo and oil tycoon Mikey Hess get married in Rome.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are in Rome to see fashion designer Misha Nonoo, a close friend of Meghan Markle, get married at Villa Aurelia on Friday...
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