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As of 3 May, passengers at Fiumicino airport embarking for flights to the United States and Israel will check in at the newly unveiled check-in area, called terminal 5. A remote structure 800 m from the main check-in are...
Italy is often a difficult country to understand. Usually it is so conscious of its image abroad that any report in the foreign press can cause soul searching in the national media for days. On most occasions the country...
9 May marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Aldo Moro. The two-time prime minister and leader of Democrazia Cristiana (DC) was kidnapped and his five bodyguards slain in Rome
Just over three years ago in February 2005 a law banning smoking in all public indoor spaces including bars, restaurants, clubs and work places came into force throughout Italy.
In January this year the successes and f...
For the first time in over 18 years, the city of Rome has a conservative mayor. In a run-off election held 27-28 April, Francesco Rutelli, a former left-of-centre mayor, was defeated by Gianni Alemanno, a member of the...
Christian charities Caritas and the Community of S. Egidio have signed a deal to give free funerals to 50 of the city
Around 100 stolen paintings, statues, letters and manuscripts recovered by Italian art police from the black market have gone on show at Castel S. Angelo. The annual display highlights the behind-the-scenes operations in...
A building designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano has been given the go-ahead and will be constructed on the current site of the towers that once housed the ministry of finance in EUR.
The plan for the building has...
Run-off elections for Rome mayor and president of the province of Rome will be held 27-28 April.
Contestants for mayor are outgoing minister of culture Francesco Rutelli of the centre-left Partito Democratico (PD) and...
Friday 25 April Italy celebrates Liberation Day, which is generally accepted as the end of world war two in Italy, although German forces did not officially surrender until four days later on 29 April.
In Rome, Preside...
A ten-year-old American tourist who went missing on 21 April from the Vatican Museums was found safe and sound four hours later in Via Veneto, some four kilometres away. The little boy had been visiting the museums with...
Rome marks its 2761st birthday on 21 April, based on its mythical founding date in 753 BC, with various events on the day itself and the days that follow. This year the city has chosen musical events in particular to cel...
Excavations for the new Metro C line station at Piazza Venezia have revealed an ancient Roman staircase in the middle of the square. The white-marble staircase inset into pink granite has been dubbed
World-renowned architect Massimiliano Fuksas, acclaimed film director Ettore Scola, and one of the most respected voices on politics and current affairs and founder of the newspaper the Repubblica, Eugenio Scalfari, are...
Four out of ten Italian couples no longer have sex and only 30 per cent of couples are satisfied with their sexual life according to a study carried out by a group of sexologists, gynaecologists, and andrologysts. The st...
Italian animal rights groups were up in arms after an Italian brown bear who wandered into Switzerland was shot dead this week. JJ3 had been living in the Swiss canton of Graubunden for the last year, but Swiss authoriti...
The 13-14 April elections for mayor and president of the province of Rome will go down to run-offs between Francesco Rutelli of the centre-left Partito Democratico (PD) and Gianni Alemanno of the centre-right Popolo dell...
Although not 100 per cent grammatical, the play on the name Alitalia
On 27 June 2007 Wanted in Rome published an article on accidents in the workplace.
The alliance led by Silvio Berlusconi has won the parliamentary elections of 13-14 April with a clear majority in both houses of parliament. This is partly thanks to the consolidation of Umberto Bossi
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