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Sharks are disappearing from Italian waters, according to recent research published in scientific periodical Conservation Biology. Over the last 200 years, the number of sharks in the Mediterranean as a whole has dropped...
28 June marks the start of the Pauline year, when the Christian church celebrates the approximately 2000th anniversary of the birth of the apostle Paul.
In Rome events centre on the basilica of S. Paolo Fuori le Mura,...
Carmen is such an old favourite, the story so colourful and dramatic and the music so vivid and flamboyant, that the requirements for its success are really quite simple
The new Berlusconi government has decided to set up a task force of 3,000 soldiers to supplement the regular police in certain areas of the country. The idea of using soldiers, in patrols together with Italian police or...
Winter has arrived in Cape Town and with it the start of what is commonly refereed to as the
The bike sharing project announced late last year was inaugurated in Piazza di Spagna on 13 June by the mayor Gianni Alemanno and the assessor of the environment Fabio De Lillo.
Roma Bike has begun with 200 bikes avail...
Rome vicariate has refused permission for American director Ron Howard to film scenes for his adaptation of Dan Brown
The mayor of Venice has decided to take what it hopes will be effective action against the hundreds of illegal peddlers, for the most part illegal foreigners, who crowd the narrow streets and bridges of the lagoon city s...
Rome mayor Giovanni Alemanno has announced that this year
The first eco-sustainable house in Rome was inaugurated on 10 June and is now open to visitors at its site near the Auditorium. The house is called
Archaeologists have uncovered a huge Roman necropolis containing some 270 tombs south of Rome at Ponte Galeria following a tip-off from the art police. The police had become suspicious that there might be an archaeologic...
One of my fondest childhood memories is of arriving at my maternal grandmother
Earlier this spring, Claudio Scaramella, president of the Pro Loco (tourist board) of Palestrina, an ancient town 38 km southeast of Rome, brought off a coup he
At the end of a very interesting tour of the castle of Bracciano north of Rome, the guide led the group to the battlements with a breathtaking view over rooftops and the lake. Looking down the brick wall of the castle,...
Nine bus lines will change course and four streets in the Salaria-Parioli area of town will be closed to traffic this week for a security clampdown during United States President George W. Bush visit to Rome.
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The Italian director Dino Risi, whose films included Profumo di Donna (1974, Scent of a Woman) and Il Sorpasso (1962, The Easy Life), has died in Rome aged 91.
Along with Mario Monicelli, Risi was one of the last survi...
The new municipal councillor for culture, Umberto Croppi, has declared that the planned car park under the Pincio on Piazza del Popolo side of Villa Borghese will not go ahead. According to the Corriere della Sera of 9 J...
The public transport strike, which was planned for Friday 6 June, has been called off. The strike would have involved all transport run by Metro and Trambus Roma and by ATAC. There has been no announcement as to why it h...
Italian labour unions have declared a four-hour strike of public transport for Friday 6 June. If the strike goes ahead as planned all public transport
The annual selection of films from the Cannes Festival will be on show in Rome from 5-12 June at eight cinemas in the capital. Taking part in the initiative are the Intrastevere (Vicolo Moroni), Nuovo Sacher (Largo Ascia...
The Isola del Giglio has been named the best coastal resort in Italy in this year
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) opens the 2008 high-level conference on world food security in Rome 3-5 June to discuss the implications of climate change and bioenergy on the world food supply.
Over 35 wor...
2 June is a public holiday in Italy to celebrate the Festa della Repubblica. The day commemorates the June referendum in 1946 when Italians voted to exile the monarchy, which was much discredited during world war two, in...
As the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) opens its 2008 high-level conference on world food security to address
The countdown to disaster may have begun. Experts involved in the ongoing trash emergency in Naples now believe that unless new areas for stockpiling are opened almost immediately, in early July, when the mercury soars,...
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