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On 10 February the Colosseum will be illuminated in memory of Eluana Englaro, who passed away on 9 February at 20.10 after 17 years in a persistent vegetative state following a car accident. Feeding tubes keeping her ali...
The S. Marco Curia in Venice has come up with a novel idea to combat the economic downturn in the city: opening
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Il cuoco segreto dei papi. Eminent food historian June di Schino and Furio Luccichenti, winners of the 2008 Bancarella della Cucina prize, explore the life, times and recipes of the 16th-century chef to...
The Italy national rugby team that will go into the 2009 Six Nations Championship on 7 February is a very different beast from the one that entered the tournament last year. Twelve months ago there was an air of confiden...
Just over a decade ago, in 1998, Rabbi Yaacov Deyo of Aish HaTorah in Los Angeles introduced the idea of speed dating to help Jewish singles meet each other and find a partner. Since then it has become a craze in many pa...
Italy's annual musical extravaganza, the San Remo Festival, which takes place 17-21 February, will have an injection of Hollywood glamour this year, thanks to a host of movie stars who are to make an appeal to support th...
Plain clothes policemen on buses, armed traffic wardens and yet more soldiers patrolling the streets are among the measures soon to come into effect to reduce crime in Rome.
A new squad of plain clothes police officers...
Plain clothes policemen on buses, armed traffic wardens and yet more soldiers patrolling the streets are among the measures the city has announced to reduce crime in Rome.
A new squad of plain clothes police officers ar...
Fondazione Musica per Roma, which runs the Auditorium Parco della Musica, is pairing up with iTunes to present "Ti regaliamo la musica digitale", a scheme which runs until 30 April. Spectators at the Auditorium will have...
27 January commemorates the day in 1945 when the Russian Red Army opened the gates of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, freeing the prisoners and revealing to the world the horrors of the Holocaust.
To mark the an...
Interior minister Roberto Maroni has ordered city prefects to prevent demonstrators from congregating near churches and other
Over 35 million Italians will be watching digital terrestrial television by 2010, say media magnates and government officials present at the fourth National Congress on Digital Terrestrial Television, held at Rome
Five Etruscan tombs from the 5th cenury BC are on exhibition for the first time at the necropolis of Monterozzi in Tarquinia. The tombs were discovered in the late 1950s by a team of archaeologists from the Fondazione Le...
Free theatre tickets in exchange for your old mobile phones: that's the trade-in being promoted by Vodafone Italia for the "Serate del riciclo" scheme. On 2 February at 21.00 at Teatro Brancaccio, there will be a preview...
Verdi was commissioned by Khedive Ismail Pasha of Egypt to write Aida not for the opening of the Suez Canal (1869) as is often stated, but for the Italian Theatre in Cairo, where it opened with sensational success on 24...
Back in the 1970s, Italians were quick to make snide remarks to Americans such as myself about the racism in the United States, and, since there was truth in what they said, the only possible retort was to remind them th...
Exiting metro B at Cavour on the Via Leonina side, up on your left there is a stone inscription reading SVBVRA. As the term, meaning Sub Urbs, suggests, welcome to what was once Rome
Hot towels and green tea are served. Are you ready to stuff yourself silly with a flow of culinary delights, to dig into plates of raw ingredients accompanied by miso soup, freshly grated wasabi and pickled ginger? Don
On the far side of the Castelli Romani town of Albano Laziale, coming from Rome and just before you turn into the neighbouring town of Ariccia, a remnant of the Old Appian Way snakes down towards the church of S. Maria d...
Disturbing figures emerge from the latest Eurispes-Telefono Azzurro report on bullying amongst school children, with a quarter of youngsters declaring themselves to have been victims of intimidation, according to the sur...
18 January begins the week of prayer for Christian unity, an annual international event dedicated to reconciling the various Christian denominations. First observed in 1908, this year marks the 101st celebration.
This y...
The fourth edition of the Festival della Scienza lifts off at the Auditorium Parco della Musica from 15-18 January. The main theme of this year
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