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Manchester United football fans will have to wait 90 minutes after local AS Roma team fans leave the Stadio Olimpico as a safety measure in the quarter final Champions League game on Wednesday 4 April. Rome
A fourth century BC Greek statue of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, is at the centre of an on-going war between the ministry of fine arts and Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
The Getty claims the right to the rare li...
Cars with license plates ending in odd numbers are banned from the city
Employees of Tevere Tpl S.c.a.r.l., which runs part of the suburban bus network in Rome have called a 24-hour strike on Friday 29 March. Services will run as normal between the guaranteed times, from the start of service...
The Italian national football federation FICG (Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio) has announced that Giancarlo Abete will take over as its new head in April. Former president Franco Carraro was forced to quit in May 200...
National rail company Ferrovie dello Stato has announced that it is setting up an initiative to recycle waste at Rome
According to a study by ISTAT, the Italian national institute of statistics, unemployment in the fourth quarter of 2006 fell to its lowest level since 1993 at 6.9 percent down from 8 percent the year before. The study s...
The experimental anti-smog measures put into force by the city hall at the beginning of the year, is coming to an end. 25 March will be the last traffic-free Sunday when it will be forbidden to drive 4, 3 and 2 wheel veh...
Italian meat, no genetically modified foods, seasonal fruit and an ethnic meal once a month are among the requirements the city council has stipulated in the new contract for companies wishing to provide school lunches i...
Cars with license plates ending in even numbers will be banned from the city
As part of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome (25 March 1957, the official birth date of the European Union) Rome
From Laura Clarke
One of the things that gave Derek great pleasure during his short time in hospital was the epithet used by the doctors and nurses to refer to him.
Rome city council has pledged that up to two per cent of the total cost of constructing or restyling all public works or buildings will now go toward the creation of a public work of art at the same site. Young artists i...
In a world influenced by western thinking patterns, Professor Paolo Matthiae, professor of archaeology and history of art of the ancient Near East at Rome
The following article was the last one written by Derek Wilson, about 10 days before he died in San Giovanni hospital in Rome on 17 March. The paper magazine of Wanted in Rome was already at the printers and therefore we...
Ferrari celebrates its 60th anniversary this year, a factor that is sure to have the carmaker fired up to regain the Formula One world championship after two seasons of finishing behind Renault. For the first time in a d...
Rome city council has introduced a new service allowing readers to search the catalogues of the capital
Italians in over one thousand cities and eight provinces will return to the ballots 27 and 28 May with run-offs in 10 and 11 June in the latest round of local elections since the combined local and national elections in...
The Fondo Ambiente Italiano (FAI) weekend this year will be on 24-25 March when 500 buildings, monuments and places of special artistic interest throughout Italy will be open to the public free of charge (although visito...
Starting 17 March, students must keep their mobile phones turned off during lessons or risk having them confiscated by teachers, to be returned in the company of a parent or guardian.
According to the ministry of educat...
Rugby, much favoured by Mussolini as a sport and therefore for decades viewed with suspicion by many Italians, is enjoying an enormous wave of popularity and media coverage on account of recent striking successes by the...
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