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People like me, born in the middle of the New Forest soon after the war, are privileged. There was beauty everywhere, and music. Grasshoppers and bees were the stringed instruments of the garden orchestra; birds its choi...
The film cycle at the Centre Culturel Saint-Louis de France continues on 7 May with
For a couple of months now, sinister vans have been patrolling the streets of Rome. Reports are that the vans are blue and that on the side they bear the legend
In 1996 world leaders gathered at the World Food Summit in Rome pledged to halve the number of hungry people in the world by 2015. This commitment was reiterated in 2000 as part of the United Nations (UN) development goa...
Alitalia flight crew will strike for 24 hours on Thursday 3 May over ongoing contract renewal negotiations with the result that the airline has had to cancel 356 of the 711 flights scheduled for the day. Of these, 20...
Due to the unseasonably high temperatures, the ministry of health is currently drawing up an emergency plan to deal with health risks related to hot weather, particularly for those most at risk, namely senior citizens an...
An estimated 65,000 spectators and 500 stewards will meet for round two of the football season
The government has warned that Italy risks a drastic shortage of water, coupled with possible power blackouts, during the coming months. Following a mild winter with little rainfall, rivers and lakes are already severely...
The cabinet has given the green light to a new bill aimed at tackling illegal immigration by making it easier for foreigners to enter Italy through legal channels. The bill would replace the current Bossi-Fini immigratio...
The Olympic village, a series of boxy, mostly two-storey buildings on stilts, was built to house athletes for the 1960 Rome Olympics.
Situated beside the Flaminio quarter on the opposite side of the Tiber from the Fo...
From April 25, getting to the seaside will be easier for city dwellers. Atac, Rome
The minister of the interior Giuliano Amato has presented a code of conduct for immigrants in Italy that, while not legally binding, may become a required
Today it is difficult to believe that La Traviata was a failure when first produced at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice on 6 March 1853. Perhaps it was because the first Violetta, Fanny Salvini-Donatelli, was so stout and...
The centrist Margherita party and centre-left Democratici di Sinistra (DS) party, the two largest parties in prime minister Romano Prodi
As the annual artichoke festival, Sagra del carciofo, in Sezze Romano gets underway on 22 April, Lazio producers are worried by disappointing sales, which are being blamed on an influx of cheap African-grown artichokes....
The number of people between the ages of 30 and 34 still living with their parents in Italy is growing, according to national statistics bureau Istat. Around 29.5 per cent of Italians in the age group had not yet flown t...
Three peregrine falcon chicks have hatched in a nest on the corner of the economics faculty building in Via del Castro Laurenziano of Rome
Tevere Tpl, the company that runs 76 predominantly suburban bus lines in Rome, is striking from 08.30-12.30 on Monday 16 April. Around 71 lines are at risk. For a full list, see www.atac.roma.it. Other city centre buses...
Just over 11 per cent of prisoners (or 2,855 people) who walked free following a government amnesty initiated in August 2006 have found their way back into Italian jails, according to a report by the University of Turin....
Each year thousands of dogs, cats and wild animals in Lazio die from eating poisoned baits. These are deliberately planted in the countryside, public parks, streets, private gardens and even apartment block yards.
Many...
US telecommunications company AT&T has pulled out of a possible deal to acquire a one-third stake in Olimpia, the holding company that controls Telecom Italia. Tyre company Pirelli, which owns 80 per cent of Olimpia, had...
Following an early April announcement to prolong the Metro B1 line to Piazzale Jonio, in Prati Fiscali, city superintendent of transportation Mauro Calamante, together with Roma Metropolitane Spa, have decided to scrap p...
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