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App to facilitate transport between pilgrims and clergy during Rome's Jubilee Year.
The people behind Scooterino, Rome's community-based platform allowing users to share scooter rides, have announced a new app that wi...
Italian composer wins first competitive Oscar.
Italian composer Ennio Morricone won an Oscar for best original score for his soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's movie The Hateful Eight at the Academy Awards ceremony in...
Rome procession offers solidarity to women facing violence and prostitution.
A Via Crucis procession offering prayers and support to young women who are victims of violence and prostitution takes place on the streets...
Italians protest outside Egyptian embassy in Rome.
Italy's parliamentary committee that oversees the country's intelligence services (COPASIR) has accused Egypt of attempting to cover up the murder of 28-year-old Ital...
Government imposes vote of confidence and scraps stepchild adoption.
On 25 February the senate passed on first reading a compromise bill introducing civil unions for same-sex couples but not stepchild adoption.
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Getting around Rome is not easy at the best of times but for the disabled it is particularly difficult.
Alessandro Ciccarese
To move, walk, travel – in a word, live. It would seem easy enough and most of us take it...
Scottish rugby fans arrive in Rome as Italy takes on Scotland in Six Nations.
Scotland plays against Italy at Rome’s Olympic Stadium on Saturday 27 February at 15.25 as part of the annual Six Nations rugby union champ...
Residents use smartphones in audiovisual project documenting real Rome.
An audiovisual project uniting footage made by Rome residents, showing the “real Rome”, will be presented as part of an installation titled React...
Second anti-smog Sunday this year in Rome.
Traffic in Rome has been banned from circulating within the fascia verde (green belt) on Sunday 28 February from 07.30 to 12.30, and from 16.30 until 20.30.
The move is pa...
AS Roma captain Totti dropped from Palermo game after RAI interview.
Comments by the captain of AS Roma football team, Francesco Totti, prompted the squad's coach Luciano Spalletti to leave him out of the Roma-Palermo...
Unanimous decision to award documentary Fuocoammare.
Fuocoammare is a film about ordinary people, the every-day heroes of Lampedusa, and a monument to the hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees who made it to...
One prisoner gave himself up, the other arrested outside Rome.
Two prisoners who escaped from Rome's Rebibbia jail on 14 February are back in custody after one gave himself up on the afternoon of 17 February and the o...
Political manoeuvring in Italy's parliament threatens gay rights.
It should have been a big day for gay rights in Italy with the approval by the senate at first reading of key parts of a bill introducing civil unions...
120 Rome train stations to be transformed by street art.
A total of 120 train stations in and around Rome will be decorated by street artists thanks to the project Arte in stazione e città a colori.
The initiative...
Young artist allows Rome's tree stumps to "live again".
Andy Devane
Rome is well known for its street art which has enlivened the city but now another art form is taking place on the streets, much nearer the ground...
Inmates remain at large after breaking out of Rome prison.
A police manhunt is in operation in the greater Rome area for two prisoners who broke out of the city's Rebibbia jail during the evening of 14 February.
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Former civil protection chief Bertolaso is centre-right candidate for Rome mayor.
Italy's former civil protection chief Guido Bertolaso has accepted the nomination as the centre-right candidate in the race for Rome ma...
Celebratory events at French Academy in Rome to mark 350th anniversary.
To mark its 350th anniversary the iFrench Academy in Rome – Villa Medici is staging a series of cultural events, free to the public, over the wee...
English rugby fans descend on Rome as Italy takes on England in Six Nations.
England plays against Italy at Rome's Olympic Stadium on Sunday 14 February at 15.00 as part of the annual Six Nations rugby union champions...
New deal sees agencies join forces to clean up Rome.
Rome's refuse management agency AMA Roma is to work hand-in-hand with Retake Roma, a volunteer movement which tackles urban decay in the capital, following a deal s...
Rome loses €100 million annually in social housing scam.
Rome is preparing to evict families who are no longer entitled to live in social housing accommodation provided by the city, following an ongoing investigation...
Death of Italian student strains normally close Italo-Egyptian relations.
Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi has called for the body of missing Italian student Giulio Regeni to be returned to Italy as soon as possibl...
Low-key carnival season in Rome this year.
Despite lack of funding from the city, there are still several events taking place to celebrate Rome's traditional carnival season which runs until 9 February.
Under the t...
Tensions in the centre left risk transforming administrative polls into a referendum on the leader himself.
By Laura Clarke
Prime minister and Democratic Party (PD) secretary Matteo Renzi has a major problem on his...
Rome is full of traces of Pasolini more than four decades after his murder.
By Martin Bennett
Now you glimpse him now you don’t: Pasolini is still a presence 40 years after his death. He ghosts the Pigneto district r...
Rome holds meeting to discuss rat infestation.
An urgent meeting is being held by Rome environment and health authorities on 4 February to discuss ways of dealing with the growing number of rats roaming the city centr...
23 countries discuss strategies to combat ISIS.
Rome is hosting a key international meeting designed to build on recent military gains against Islamic State (ISIS) militants in Iraq and Syria.
Chaired by US secreta...
Belli's Romanesco sonnets are given new life in colloquial English.
Andy Devane
Residents of Rome will be familiar with the white marble statue of Giuseppe Gioachino Belli that stands at the Ponte Garibaldi end of...
Report uncovers bogus rents for social housing in exclusive Rome locations.
Social housing accommodation in Borgo Pio near the Vatican for €10 per month; an apartment on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II for €24 per month; a...
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