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Rome mayor and Lazio governor get political over city's rubbish crisis.
The mayor of Rome Virginia Raggi and the governor of the Lazio Region Nicola Zingaretti are at loggerheads over the disposal of the capital's rubbi...
Rome's Martini sign immortalised by Sorrentino in La Grande Bellezza.
The gigantic neon sign carrying the Martini logo, part of the Via Veneto skyline for decades, has been removed by the Turin-based drinks company....
Students of fashion from Milan and Pontedera win Rome design competition.
Fashion students from the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA) in Milan and the Istituto Modartech of Pontedera in Tuscany are joint winners in a...
Swiss Guards replace cast iron helmets with lighter headgear.The Vatican's Swiss Guards have begun to replace their traditional cast iron helmets with much lighter headgear in PVC, produced with the aid of 3D printing te...
Rome's luxury shops on Via dei Condotti pay tribute to Chinese tourism.
The celebration of Chinese new year in Rome will be centred in the boutiques of the capital's luxury shopping street Via dei Condotti from 2-10 Feb...
Rebibbia prisoners undertake roadworks in Rome suburbs.
Specially-trained prisoners from Rome's Rebibbia prison have begun fixing the city's pot-holed roads as part of an agreement between the capital, Italy's justice m...
City assembly passes motion to evict far-right group from illegally occupied Rome building.
Rome city council has passed a motion calling for the "immediate eviction" of the far-right organisation CasaPound from a city...
Third consecutive year of new brown bear cubs in central Italy.
There was good news for the critically endangered Marsican brown bear – the rarest sub-species of bear on the planet – with the arrival of 11 new cubs in 2...
American electric scooter sharing company Lime awaits approval to launch in Rome.
A project to introduce electric scooter sharing in Rome has received the approval of the city council but is awaiting the go-ahead from I...
Giudizio Universale opens its doors for the pope's special guests.
Pope Francis has invited 1,300 poor people, including homeless, refugees, needy families and even prisoners to a special screening of Giudizio Universal...
Rome rat problem linked to city's rubbish crisis.
Central offices at Rome city hall have a problem with rats, according to an internal document seen by daily newspaper Il Messaggero.
The problem relates specifically...
Celebrated figures from Italian rugby open Uno Due Pub in Rome.
A new rugby pub called UnoDue opened in central Rome on 27 January, just in time for the upcoming Six Nations rugby tournament.
The pub-restaurant, loca...
Revenge attack for being refused entry to Rome nightclub.A man who was refused entry to the Rome nightclub Qube for being drunk returned in his car to ram the bouncers at around 03.00 on 27 January.The dramatic scene, fi...
Holocaust victims remembered in Rome 74 years after Auschwitz liberation.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2019 is being marked in Rome with dozens of memorial events until 1 February.
The Settim...
Rome street artist Lucamaleonte pays homage to S. Lorenzo with motifs associated with the quarter.
A new mural by celebrated Roman street artist Lucamaleonte will be inaugurated in the S. Lorenzo district of Rome at 18....
Latest incident of ATAC bus self-combusting took place in Rome suburb of EUR.
A Rome city bus burst into flames near the Laurentina metro station in the EUR district of Rome at around 01.00 on 25 January.
The driver,...
Screening interrupted after school children discover rats caught in home-made traps.
Cinema Barberini in central Rome has been closed after dead rats were found in the multi-sala complex on the morning of 24 January....
Baby Alex to leave Bambino Gesù hospital after successful bone-marrow transplant.
Baby Alex, a 20-month-old boy suffering from a rare genetic disease, is to return home to London after undergoing a successful bone-marro...
Italian transport ministry to invest €425 million in Rome metro network.
Rome's troubled subway system is to be modernised thanks to an injection of €425 million in state funds, following an agreement between Italy's tr...
Rome police round up bull and two cows in Bravetta.
Video footage has emerged of a bull walking through the streets of Bravetta, a suburb in west Rome, on the evening of 22 January.
In addition to the bull, there wer...
Man is believed to be tenth homeless person to die from hypothermia in city this winter.
A man who was found dead in Rome's Flaminio district on 23 January is believed to be the 10th homeless person to die from the cold...
Ethiopian wanted to baptise himself in "sacred waters" of Trevi Fountain.
Rome police detained a 38-year-old Ethiopian after he removed his clothes and jumped into the waters of the Trevi Fountain at around 10.00 on 23...
Church leaders and politicians express concern for future of asylum seekers following surprise closure of major reception centre outside Rome.
The CARA reception centre for asylum seekers at Castelnuovo di Porto north...
Brazilian woman went into labour while waiting to board at Fiumicino.
A Brazilian woman gave birth to a baby boy in Fiumicino airport after going into labour while about to board a transatlantic flight on the morning of...
Charity says evictions leading to illness and creation of shantytowns in Rome.
Rome's continuing policy of evicting people from illegally-occupied buildings, without offering them alternative accommodation, is creating...
Rome takes precautionary measures as temperatures drop.
Rome's civil protection authority has distributed "significant quantites of salt" to all areas of the capital as the city prepares for the outside chance of snow o...
Police hand out €450 fines for incidents at Piazza Navona and Trevi Fountain in Rome.
A 34-year-old Romanian man faces charges of damage after he was caught in the Fontana del Moro in Piazza Navona at around 15.00 on 18...
Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi has almost a million Facebook followers.
With over 927,000 followers on Facebook and 180,000 fans on Instagram, Rome's first citizen Virginia Raggi is the mayor with the largest social media...
Blu confronts themes of inequality and social injustice in new Rome mural.
The celebrated Bolognese street artist Blu has created a giant mural on the gable end of a social housing block in the north-east Rome suburb of...
Nine homeless people have died in Rome this winter due to the cold.
Rome charities have criticised the city for not doing enough to help the homeless, following the death of nine homeless people from the cold in just ov...
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