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The World Summit on Food Security organised by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations ended on 18 November with little more than a generic agreement to eradicate hunger
Students have returned to the streets in protest over reforms and job cuts in the education sector.
On 17 November, international students
Italy is mobilizing against a move to further privatise the management of water supplies under the terms of a government decree currently before parliament for conversion into law.
Under the new legislation, from 2012...
Have you ever wondered what the ancient Romans ate for dinner? Now here is your chance to find out. Typical
Former Rome mayor Francesco Rutelli has left the main opposition party, the centre-left Partito Democratico (PD), and formed a new centrist movement, Alleanza per L
The director-general of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Jacques Diouf has called for a global hunger strike on the eve of the World Food Summit, which will be held in Rome from 16-18 November.
The aim is to...
Part Scottish, part Italian Paolo Nutini is coming to Rome in concert on 28 November. The 22-year-old, whose father
In early October the venue for the exhibition Non Angli sed Angeli: a Pilgrimage, a Mission at the Venerable English College (VEC) was still a work in progress. The entrance at Via di Monserrato 43 had just been given a...
Open a daily paper or a magazine almost any day of the week and you will find news or a feature on melting ice caps, rising sea levels, retreating glaciers or the possible extinction of polar bears.
Open the same papers...
Few people are aware that women taking a taxi in Rome between 21.00-01.00 are entitled to a ten per cent discount on the fare. The discount is available from white licensed taxis and also applies to anyone travelling to...
The psychiatric department at Gemelli hospital in Rome has opened a new centre for sufferers of internet addiction disorder (IAD). The department already treats a range of dependencies from drugs and alcohol to gambling,...
Rome marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 with a programme of events and initiatives throughout the city.
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4 November is National Unity Day and Armed Forces Day in Italy.
At 09.00 the president of the republic Giorgio Napolitano will lay a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the Altare della Patria in Piazza Venezia...
On 31 December 2008 there were 3,891,295 foreign residents in Italy against a total population of 60 million according to the national statistics institute ISTAT. This represents a rise of 13.4 per cent over the previou...
The annual Commonwealth Remembrance Day ceremony will be held on 11 November at the Rome War Cemetery, which holds the graves and memorials of over 400 Commonwealth servicemen who died in the fight to free Italy from Ger...
The Lay Centre is now offering an expanded programme from its new surroundings in what director Donna Orsuto calls
Rome city council has approved a decision to reduce the amount payable on outstanding traffic fines received before 31 December 2004. Under the new regulations, people who have not paid these fines will now only have to...
Rome will switch off its analogue TV transmitters on 16 November 2009, becoming the first European capital city to go digital. After this date viewers will need to convert or upgrade their TV equipment to receive digital...
If the child in you wants to dress up on Halloween, try one of Rome
An Italian court of appeal has upheld a sentence convicting British tax lawyer David Mills of taking a $600,000 bribe to perjure himself in trials involving prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and his holding company Fininv...
President of the centre-left Lazio regional government Piero Marrazzo has resigned from his post after finding himself at the centre of a high-profile sex scandal.
The former governor, a journalist by profession, suspe...
Already forgotten. It was 15 September 2009, five months and a few days after the catastrophic earthquake that hit L
The Non-Catholic Cemetery (commonly referred to as the Protestant cemetery) in Rome behind the Cestius pyramid at Porta S. Paolo has been described in rapturous terms by eminent visitors over the two-and-a-half centuries...
When the law giving immunity to prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and the three other highest offices of state was overturned by the constitutional court in early October there was an almost universal rejection of the pos...
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