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By the end of July, new ticket barriers requiring ticket holders to run their passes over an electronic reader will be installed in all metro A and B stations eliminating the open passageway for season ticket holders alt...
The Vatican Library is set to close for three years from mid-July for rebuilding and restoration work, a library spokesman confirmed. The work will involve installing air conditioning and dust protection as well as overh...
The Canile Comunale della Muratella, which houses around 2,000 abandoned dogs in need of a new home, will be participating in the international pet adoptathon day on Saturday 5 May with non-stop opening from 10.00 until...
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
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