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Lufthansa Italia, the Italian subsidiary of the German airline Lufthansa, has announced that it will be suspending its Rome Fiumicino-Milan Malpensa service as of 16 February due to competition from Alitalia on the Rome-...
Every Thursday evening Rome-based maths teacher Andrew Marmion from Scotland organises an event called Extreme Language Exchange to foster communication between Italian and English speakers. The initiative is designed in...
Hindi cinema, commonly referred to as Bollywood, is currently enjoying a love-affair with Italy that started two years ago when the film Bachna Ae Haseeno (Beware, O Beautiful Ones) was released featuring scenes shot in...
In early December passengers leaving the metro at Tiburtina station in northeast Rome had a surprise. In addition to exiting directly into a tunnel leading to the railway station or, via a long underpass, onto the busy C...
Every building in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince has been damaged. Every hospital has been destroyed. Every school, house, car, street, makeshift home, orphanage, church and shantytown - even the capital
There will be disruptions to public transport services in and around Rome on 20 January as a result of a transport strike.
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The annual international week of prayer for Christian unity takes place from 18-25 January. This year the biblical text that has been chosen to provide the theme for reflection is
Ryanair has withdrawn its threat to suspend all its domestic flights within Italy from 23 January in the wake of a compromise reached with the country
The authorities are on alert as the river Tiber approaches flood level following persistent heavy rains. Soldiers are ready to intervene in the event of flooding and hospitals located along the river have put in place sp...
The first study on bullying in Rome schools shows that 29 per cent of those interviewed had suffered some form of bulling but that 74 per cent had never spoken about it before. The sample was made up of 12 to 15 year old...
A Formula One race in Rome is one lap closer now that the promoter, Maurizio Flammini, and the president of Formula One management and administration, Bernie Ecclestone, have agreed to develop a project for a race along...
If you have bargains in your sights the day to mark in your calendar is 2 January, when the winter sales start in Rome. Unlike the recent mega sales seen in cities such as London, where retailers are slashing prices by u...
The busy bus stop in Via del Plebiscito in front of the Rome residence of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been removed for security reasons.
It was the stopping point for 13 daytime and five night time buses on the...
Informal New Year celebrations in Rome are centered around Piazza del Popolo, where thousands of people converge. Although it
Ryanair is threatening to stop its domestic flights throughout Italy on 23 January unless the country
Rome mayor Gianni Alemanno has inaugurated the first section of the so-called Parco Lineare delle Mura Aureliane in the southeastern part of the city. The project so far consists of 500 m of grass, trees and parallel ped...
The small town of S. Benedetto in Perilli in Abruzzo has some big ideas for post-earthquake reconstruction
The small Abruzzo town of S. Benedetto in Perilli is 900 m above sea level and 45 km from L
As a British citizen living abroad, my vote has a best-by date on it. After 15 years in Italy, I was disenfranchised; but now, thanks to a single-handed battle by an old soldier, I might get it back.
Harry Shindler arr...
How many of you can remember what you were doing on New Year
Metro stations in Rome are to remain open 24 hours a day to provide shelter for homeless people during the current cold spell. Stations normally close from around midnight to 05.30 when the metro is not in service.
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