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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...
This Triptych is of words by three different authors and music by three different composers in a mixture of the fanciful, the gossamer-like, the brittle and at times the melancholy.
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A series of airport and train strikes have been announced in April and May, starting off with a national train strike by all trade unions on Friday 13 April between 9.00 and17.00.
An Alitalia strike, still to be confirm...
According to recently released figures, the cost of rents for housing in Italy has more than doubled since 1999. The study, which was carried out by Censis, Sunia and Cgil on a sample of 5,000 families living in rented p...
A protest march against the death penalty in all countries has been organised for Easter day Sunday 8 April in Rome. It will start at the Campidoglio at 10.00 and end at St Peter
Eleven Manchester United football fans were taken to hospital in Rome on 4 April as a result of violence surrounding the quarter final Champions League game between Manchester United and AS Roma, the British embassy in R...
Citing estimates from the regional association of hoteliers, city officials will be expecting around 631,000 tourists over the Easter holiday, from 3
Russian flagship airline Aeroflot has been revealed as the surprise partner in Italian bank Unicredit
Rome city council has announced a modernisation project for the urban rail line that runs from Piazzale Flaminio to Montebello in the suburbs of northern Rome. Currently the station at Piazzale Flaminio acts as the termi...
A provisional no-swimming (divieto di balneazione) order has been placed on many beaches throughout Lazio by the regional government, as biological tests on large stretches of sea have revealed worrying levels of polluti...
What is the melody of these bodies? It is always new and different
In January the government made an overdue effort to address a problem that the Italian public has long grumbled about: inefficiency in the public administration. The minister responsible for public administration reform...
It was a small, unadorned coffin that slid its way out of S. Giovanni mortuary on the wettest and coldest day of the year, its only distinctive mark being the stark metal tag on the top bearing his name, Derek John Wilso...
It was a small, unadorned coffin that slid its way out of S. Giovanni mortuary on the wettest and coldest day of the year, its only distinctive mark being the stark metal tag on the top bearing his name, Derek John Wilso...
The Romanian Academy will hold an exhibition on how inmates in Romanian prisons spend their time, entitled
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