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The Vatican has confirmed that there will be no change to its policy on celibacy in the priesthood or on married priests in wake of the threats coming from Emmanuel Milingo, the former Catholic archbishop who married Mar...
The government has scrapped plans for a tourist tax, which would have allowed Italian towns and cities to add 5 per day to foreign visitors' hotel bills.
The withdrawal of the levy from the 2007 budget was met with reli...
The costly flood barrier system being built in Venice to protect the city from high tides is causing controversy, with authorities divided between those who want to press ahead and others who oppose the project.
While p...
An interactive science and technology centre for children aged 11-17 has opened in Romes Villa Torlonia. Children (who can not be accompanied by adults) are able to take part in hands-on activities in the seven rooms of...
After colds and flu, backache is the second most common reason for visiting the doctor in Italy and one of the major causes of absence from the workplace, according to a national orthopaedic conference being held in Rome...
Italian public service broadcaster RAI may add its licence fee to electricity bills if the government agrees to a proposal by a Forza Italia member on the RAI board, Angelo Maria Petroni. At present, RAI loses 600 millio...
Those who wish to move around Rome at speed on two wheels, whatever the traffic restrictions, now have a solution. The Vectrix is the first high-performance electrical scooter available in Italy and can travel 110 km at...
Football players in both the serie A and B leagues are seeing a substantial dwindling in their paycheques the average salaries this season are on par with what they were earning in the 1990s.
According to the Italian f...
The number of women working in Rome has increased by 3.3 per cent since 2004, with around 500,000 in employment, according to the annual report on the capitals economy commissioned by city authorities. In the 35-44 year-...
In the face of the ever-increasing problem of what to do about the queues of people waiting to enter the Vatican Museums, the museums administration have devised a new mechanism for entry, accompanied by price increases,...
The market in Piazza S. Cosimato in Trastevere has returned to its historic location after almost two years spent in nearby Piazza Mastai while renovations were carried out on Piazza S. Cosimato. The modernised market is...
The annual starling "distress call" operation, to dissuade the birds from flying above certain streets of Rome, begin this week in the Ostia, Prati, Viale Mazzini and Stazione Termini areas.
Starlings show a preference...
Rome's Via Condotti and Milan's Via Montenapoleone are tied at number 14 as the most expensive street addresses in the world, both costing a yearly average rent of 2,250 per sqm of apartment.
This is Italy's ranking in...
For the first time since they were painted in the early years of the seventeenth century, the two versions of Caravaggios Conversion of St Paul, originally commissioned by Cardinal Tiberio Cerasi for his chapel in the ch...
A group of researchers from the universities of Rome, Florence, Turin and Ferrara claim to have found evidence that the first human inhabitants of the continent that is now known as Europe lived in southern Italy. The re...
The turmoil started on 11 September this year, when Europes fifth biggest telecommunications company Telecom Italia announced it intended to split its fixed line and mobile phone segments into separate businesses. This w...
Via Settevene-Palo is a beautiful road that leads from the Cassia Bis to the village of Trevignano Romano (population 5,000) on the shores of Lake Bracciano north of Rome. Hundreds of tall plane trees line both sides of...
September marked the official start to autumn, although this year the weather was so unseasonably hot that there was little incentive to think about a change of clothes and colours. But now the clocks have gone back and...
Two gigs at the English Theatre in Rome (8-9 November) form part of Ince's first international tour, and give us a chance to see the man who's claimed the 2006 outstanding achievement in comedy award from Time Out, Londo...
The government has put forward a special plan for Naples to counteract increasing levels of gang-related violent crime in the city, where there have been 12 murders in the past two weeks.
Measures include an increase o...
In the central district of Parioli, not far from the bustling chaos of city life, there is a place where the only sound you will hear is the stomping of heavy horses hooves and the distant clacks of wooden mallets hittin...
Astronomists on the warpath and their industrial enemies signed an armed truce on 21 October in a mutual deal to clean up the ever-dirtier skies over the cities of Italy. To the fury of the sky-watchers, some 30 per cent...
A small number of Romes taxi drivers have decided not to respect fixed fares between the city centre and the airport and have announced they will go on strike on 28 November. The move by the drivers follows city authorit...
City authorities have launched a new voluntary citizenship course for foreigners wanting to become Italian citizens. The ten-hour course takes the form of a cycle of three lessons that will be repeated around 50 times be...
Atac and Rome city authorities have announced a series of incentives to persuade people to scrap their old cars and join a car-sharing scheme. The scheme, which is masterminded by the ministry of the environment, aims to...
The publication, Famiglia Cristiana, has conducted a survey on various aspects of the Italians relations with saints.
In prayers in which a saint is invoked, Padre Pio is clear favourite, with 31 per cent of invocations...
The Vatican committee for historical sciences (comitato vaticano per le scienze storiche) has launched an alarm over the decline of the study of the classical languages, Latin and Greek, in Europoean schools and universi...
Young people between the ages of 18-25 years have a 50 per cent more chance of suffering non-lethal injuries on the job than other age groups, the Italian bureau of statistics has revealed.
The sectors most at risk in t...
Italy celebrates All Saints Day, or Ognissanti, on Wednesday 1 November with a public holiday. Public transport will run on the usual Sunday timetable and it is advisable to ring museums to check whether they are open i...
The number of prostitutes working on the streets of Rome has fallen by around 1,000 in the last eight years, according to a new report commissioned by city authorities. In 2004-2005, there were between 2,000-2,200 prosti...
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