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Fines of €450 for tourists caught in Rome's historic fountains.
Italian police have handed down heavy fines to several foreign tourists caught frolicking in Rome's fountains in recent days.
Two young American visit...
ATAC employees stage 24-hour public transport strike in Rome.
Rome's ATAC public transport workers represented by the UGL trade union are holding a 24-hour strike on Tuesday 26 July, despite the company's other transp...
Assets of airport bus company seized as part of probe.
Police have seized all assets belonging to airport bus transfer service Terravision, whose boss Fabio Petroni has been placed under house arrest, as part of an in...
Rome's so-called Nuvola conference centre set to open in October.
Construction work on the so-called Nuvola conference centre in Rome's southern suburb of EUR has finally reached completion, after €236 million and 18...
Raggi introduces €400 fine for Rome's illegal "centurions".
Rome's new mayor Virginia Raggi has banned costumed "centurions" and unlicensed rickshaws from operating around tourist sites in the capital.
Those caught...
Scientists make surprise discovery about volcano in Rome's Alban Hills.
Italian scientists have warned that a long-dormant volcanic complex in Colli Albani, a set of hills about 20km southeast of Rome, is actually sti...
MAXXI celebrates the legacy of Italy's foremost "radical architecture" group.
Jacopo Benci
The exhibition Superstudio 50 at the MAXXI in Rome celebrates the 50th anniversary of Superstudio, the most iconic among th...
International flights delayed due to burnt fiber-optic cables.
Terminal 3 at Rome's Fiumicino airport is experiencing significant delays with passenger check-in since early on Monday 18 July, due to a breakdown in int...
Growing rubbish problem leads to rat emergency in Rome.
Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi has promised stiff penalties for those caught dumping rubbish illegally around Rome, as the capital grapples with the mounting proble...
O’Flaherty saved the lives of over 6,000 escapees in Rome during world war two.
On 8 May 2016 a plaque was unveiled at the Vatican's Collegium Teutonicum to honour the Irish priest Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty (1898-1964)...
Prison at Roman Forum will reopen with new visitor facilities.
The Mamertine prison at the Roman Forum will reopen to the public on 21 July, following a year-long closure to allow for archaeological work and the insta...
Rome mayor orders removal of homeless camps from Tiber river.
Rome has begun to clear out the illegal homeless camps along the river Tiber, between Ponte Sublicio and Tiber Island, following an order from the mayor of...
Over 20 dead in head-on rail collision in southern Italy.
At least 20 passengers have been killed and many more seriously injured in a collision between two trains on a single track in Puglia in southern Italy. Many o...
Experimental third entrance designed to reduce queues into Colosseum.
A third entrance to the Colosseum, at the Via Labicana corner of the amphitheatre, will be in operation on a trial basis from 15 July until 31 Octo...
Former Fox News correspondent will be flanked by Spanish reporter.
Pope Francis has appointed American journalist Greg Burke as director of the Vatican's press office, replacing Fr Federico Lombardi who steps down on...
Police close pub in Rome's Campo de' Fiori over anti-social behaviour.
Rome police have temporarily suspended the license of the Drunken Ship pub in Campo de' Fiori, closing down the popular bar for 30 days.
The cl...
The president of the American University of Rome outlines how Lampedusa could turn to archaeology to help it through difficult times.
Richard Hodges
Flying south of Agrigento the blue begins, even on All Saints' Da...
24-hour strike by ATAC postponed until 26 July.
A 24-hour strike by Rome’s public transport company ATAC, previously scheduled for Monday 11 July, has been postponed until 26 July.
However a 24-hour strike by Roma...
Outrage in Italy over hate-attack murder of asylum seeker.
Italian premier Matteo Renzi has condemned the murder of Nigerian asylum seeker Emmanuel Chidi Namdi who was beaten to death in a hate attack by an Italian "u...
Rome autopsy reveals victims died "slow and painful death".
Italy's foreign minister Paolo Gentiloni has told the senate in Rome that Italy "will not forget" the nine Italians killed during a 12-hour siege in the Bang...
Fendi to old fashion show at Trevi Fountain on 7 July.
Italian luxury fashion house Fendi is celebrating its 90 years by holding a fashion show at Rome's Trevi Fountain on the evening of 7 July.
The Legends and Fai...
Autopsy rules out possibility that student was already dead when pushed into Tiber.
The results of an official autopsy cite drowning as the cause of death of Beau Solomon, the 19-year-old American student whose body w...
Homeless Rome man accused of killing American student found in Tiber.
Italian police have detained a man suspected of killing 19-year-old American student Beau Solomon, whose body was found in the river Tiber near Pon...
Alitalia staff hold strike over lost "privileges" for flight crew.
Alitalia has cancelled 142 flights scheduled for Tuesday 5 July due to a strike action by employees protesting over the company's scrapping of "privil...
Murder investigation opens into death of American university student.
A murder investigation is underway after the body of missing 19-year-old American student Beau Solomon was discovered in the river Tiber, near Pont...
Rome commemorates nine Italians killed in Dhaka attack.
Italy is mourning the nine Italians who were among 20 civilians killed during a 12-hour siege at a restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on the night of 1...
Italy pledges new funds for Colosseum restoration.
Italy has pledged €18 million of state funds to rebuild the Colosseum's central arena floor, by the end of 2018, to be used in “cultural events of the highest level”,...
American student last seen in Rome on 30 June.
A police investigation is underway after 19-year-old American student Beau Solomon went missing in Rome in the early hours of Friday 1 July, a day after arriving in the I...
Virginia Raggi met Pope Francis at Vatican on 1 July.
Rome's newly-elected mayor Viriginia Raggi met with Pope Francis for the first time at the Vatican at 10.30 on 1 July.
Raggi, of the anti-establishment Moviment...
Shoppers should be wary of discounts more than 50 per cent.
Summer sales in Rome and throughout the Lazio region begin officially on Saturday 2 July with discounted clothes, shoes and accessories on offer for the foll...
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