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Over 250 people are now known to have died in the earthquake that hit the mountainous Abruzzo region in the early hours of 6 April. Rescuers are continuing to dig among the rubble in search of around ten people still mis...
Rescue operations continue in the province of L’Aquila after an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale devastated the area on 6 April.
As of 14.00 on 7 April prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said the death...
Twenty-seven people, including five children, are confirmed dead and over 30 are missing after an earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale hit the Abruzzo region in the early hours of 6 April. However, the death tol...
Ninety-two people confirmed dead, 1,500 injured and over 70,000 displaced: this is the provisional toll as of 17.00 on 6 April of the violent earthquake which devastated large parts of the province of L’Aquila in t...
Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) is offering 15 to 60 per cent discounts on 12 high-speed railway routes in order to gain an dvantage over the airlines on travel between Italy's largest cities.
Discounts are on a sliding scale...
The largest labour union in Italy, the CGIL, has called a demonstration in Rome for 4 April to protest the rising unemployment, falling salaries and weakened pensions that have resulted from Italy's faltering economy.
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From 2 April only digital thermometers are available for sale in Italy. Thermometers containing mercury have now been banned, in line with a 2006 European Union directive to reduce the use and spread of the highly toxic...
When the house is burning it is best not to pour oil on the flames. But on his first visit to Africa Pope Benedict XVI seemed to have little regard for conventional wisdom. At the outset of his trip he lobbed not just a...
Spring gardens
Something of a magical destination, the ruined mediaeval town of Ninfa to the south of Rome is where, over a century, generations of the Caetani family planted and cultivated a wildly romantic English-st...
500 years after the glories of the Renaissance a new art movement burst forth in Italy to dazzle the west. It was exalted and explained by the poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who published its manifesto in the Paris dail...
For the second year running, Rome hosts the international contemporary art fair
The city council has approved a plan to fuse Rome's three public transport companies, Atac Spa, Met.Ro Spa and Trambus Spa. According to the plan, parent company Atac, which oversees planning and development of Rome's pu...
Landfill managers around Lazio are threatening to turn away rubbish from Rome and 14 other towns in Lazio unless their municipal waste collection companies start paying arrears.
According to local business association F...
The Fondo Ambiente Italiano, the non-profit association dedicated to safeguarding and promoting Italy
Over the next ten years, 27 thousand hectares of suburban land stretching from EUR to Fiumicino and Ostia and taking in Appia Antica and Aurelia could have a makeover that the city hall hopes will double tourism in the c...
A budget proposal to increase the price of bus, tram and metro tickets is set to be approved on the evening of 26 March. Alemanno
Right-wing party Alleanza Nazionale (AN) has officially disbanded, paving the way for its members to join the new centre-right party Popolo della Libert
Sunday 22 March will see almost 15,000 runners from 78 different nations take to the streets in Rome at 09.00 for the 15th edition of the Rome Marathon. The race will open with around a hundred disabled athletes from all...
Over 100 parliamentary representatives of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi
In this tale drawn from the early stages of the Trojan war, treated by Euripides in two dramas and then inspiring plays and literally dozens of operas in the 17th and 18th centuries, Gluck
Luck is always essential for success in politics and recently Italy
A group of residents in the dormitory community of Colleferro 50 km south of Rome are organising a grassroots effort to determine the air pollution levels created by a plant of twin waste gasifiers, which was closed by t...
There will be a 24-hour national rail strike from 21.00 on Saturday 14 March to the same time on Sunday 15 March. Ferrovie dello Stato says the strike will only affect short-haul trains not medium and long-distance ones....
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