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Rome is in shock after the recent shooting in the central Prati district of the city where a 33-year old Roman, Flavio Simmi, was riddled with ten bullets in front of his partner. The victim leaves two small children. Th...
Bartolomeo Pietromarchi has succeeded Luca Massimo Barbero as the new director of MACRO, Rome
Once again, prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is going to have a very difficult summer. For 17 years it has been unwise (and incorrect) to write him off, but now the wind really does seem to have turned. On other occasion...
Unlike the great collections of the past, put together by churchmen and aristocrats, the St
A remote cork oak forest south of Rome has been undisturbed for centuries.
The little-known S. Vito cork oak forest of Monte S. Biagio, bordering the Monte Aurunci Park, is a treasure of nature that has been preserved...
Commuters in Rome's suburbs are facing a public transport strike on Friday 8 July from 8.30 to 16.30. The protest, organised by trade unions FILT-CGIL, CISL-Fit, Uiltrasporti, UGL Transport, is expected to affect six sub...
The Nymphaeum at Pincio, at the edge of Villa Borghese overlooking Piazza del Popolo, is to be restored by the city at a cost of about
The Vatican has unveiled a new online news portal called News.va.
Pope Benedict XVI launched the service with the world
Bargain hunters besieged luxury shops in the historic centre of Rome when the summer sales opened on Saturday 2 July. Shoppers, many of them foreign tourists, were hunting for discounts of up to 50 per cent on quality it...
Rome launches a campaign on 1 July to help elderly people to avoid the worst effects of the summer heat. The plan includes the provision of bicycle-ambulances operated by Red Cross volunteers in the city
The Vatican Museums have opened a room dedicated to Henri Matisse which includes the French artist
In his first conference as director general elect of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jos
Civic museums in Rome are open every Saturday night from 25 June to 3 September from 20.00 until midnight.
Special events take place in most of the museums during the late openings, meaning that visitors can combine...
The city of Rome is to add 36 new bike-sharing points to its existing 34. It plans to put out to tender the management of Rome
Against a backdrop of discrimination and forced re-housing, the Roma community plays an important role in recycling in Rome Rudi Salkanovic is one of Rome
A teenage Sofia Loren doing her first screen test, the dazzling costumes worn by Elizabeth Taylor as the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, a 19th-century Broadway in a New York before skyscrapers
The American cable network HBO, in conjunction with British broadcaster BBC2, is planning to produce a mini-series based on Robert Graves' "I, Claudius" novels, after recently acquiring the filming rights.
In 1976 th...
Rome, in collaboration with Bucharest, is hosting an event in Piazza Campidoglio on 15 June to highlight the cultural contribution of Romania.
Entitled "Romani Rumeni", the initiative is designed to strengthen cultur...
A cricket tournament is in full swing in the Caffarella Park on the Via Appia. Taking place every Sunday from April until the middle of July, most of members of the ten participating teams come from south Asian countries...
The collapse of a tree on a family in Rome
The celebrated conductor of opera and classical music Riccardo Muti has refused honourary citizenship offered to him by the city of Rome.
After a protracted process, the 35-member city assembly unanimously agreed to...
Pope Benedict XVI welcomed over 2,000 members of gypsy communities to St Peter
Italian voters have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the four referendums. Not only did the turnout reach 57 per cent of the electorate, well over the necessary quorum of 50 per cent plus one vote, but the votes in favo...
On a sunny April morning in Rome, crowds are bustling past the fashionable shops on Via Nazionale. Few notice the side-entrance to St Paul
The city of Rome remembers the anniversary of the entry in Rome of the allied forces on the night of 4 June 1944 with a parade and reenactment of the event on Sunday 12 June.
More than 50 vintage military vehicles wi...
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