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There will be no newspapers until 27 December due to a three-day strike and the traditional Christmas break, the Italian journalist trade union (Fnsi) has announced. Newspaper, magazine, agency and web journalists as wel...
Two members of the radical Rosa nel Pugno party have sparked off controversy after placing two pairs of embracing Barbies and Kens
It is estimated that 80 per cent of Italian tax evasion is committed in the service sector and commerce, particularly by the retail trade, according to the vice-minister of the economy, Vincenzo Visco, The total of econ...
lThe Polish Cultural Institute in Rome presents around 90 works by the self-taught Polish artist Nikifor (1895-1968) in an exhibition entitled Nikifor, genio dell
Commuters are rushing down the escalators on this winter morning and some just manage to dart inside the metro before the warning beep and clanging of doors. Inside the train, noses are buried deep in newspapers, most of...
British planes swoop down out of a clear blue sky with utter surprise to strafe and bomb an isolated Italian medical unit camped around an oasis in the Libyan desert, smashing the unit
Vatican secretary of state and avid Juventus supporter Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has proposed that the Vatican start up a football club to compete in the Italian football league. A long-time fan and wealth of sporting k...
After restoration lasting five years, the Museo Barracco, one of the most attractive small museums in Rome, has reopened; this is housed in the little palace known as the
Former premier Silvio Berlusconi is in the USA for a medical check-up and possibly to undergo pacemaker surgery.
These arrangements have been made public by Northern League leader and Berlusconi's personal friend and al...
The controversial finanziaria government budget has been approved by a vote of confidence in the senate of 162 against 157 votes, thanks in large part to the votes of seven life senators who gave their support to Prodi's...
The public transport strike scheduled for Friday 15 December has been cancelled by all the large trade unions. Some of the smaller trade unions are going ahead with the industrial action, however, so some disruption to R...
Rome-born composer Ennio Morricone will receive an honorary Academy Award during the 2007 Oscars ceremony to be held in Los Angeles on 25
February. Morricone has written the music for over 300 films in a career spannin...
The Guglielmo Marconi library in the Marconi area (south of Monteverde) of Rome has been completely renovated and is now open to the general public.
Marconi is now the largest public library in the capital
Four new adjunct councillors have been voted on to the Rome city council in the 10 December elections for immigrant representatives. Romulo Sabio Salvador from the Philippines will represent Asia and Oceania (2,190 votes...
Two important pieces of Roman sculpture, stolen in the 1980s and belonging to the city of Rome, have been recovered and put on display again after cleaning and restoration. One is a headless male figure in toga, dating t...
The long-term plan to extend the space for exhibiting pictures within the Palazzo Barberini, which houses the Italian states main collection of antique pictures, reaches its first stage on 13 December. In the presence of...
Foreigners can now apply for and renew their permit of stay (permesso di soggiorno) at the post office and then track the progress of the application process online at www.portaleimmigrazione.it. The website also gives i...
The Christmas tree for St Peters square was donated by Italy, from the southern region of Calabria, this year and transporting it to Rome from the south of Italy was no easy feat.
The tree, which is some 33 m high, took...
The city of Rome will be offering guided tours of five outstanding examples of Romes contemporary architecture starting in December. Sites include Renzo Pianos Auditorium Parco della Musica (Viale Pietro de Coubertin 30...
Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch multinational, is moving its Italian headquarters from Milan to Rome at the beginning of 2007. The company explains the move as a necessary rationalisation which will bring the headquarters near...
The northern city of Padua in the Veneto regions the first Italian city officially to recognise de facto couples, both heterosexual and homosexual.
The predominantly centre-left city council passed a motion this week th...
Five bus lines designed especially for Christmas shoppers will run from 8-23 December (except for 17 December), Romes transport authority Atac has announced. The five bus lines will link the ex mercati generali in Via Os...
Around one worker in ten in Rome is non-Italian, according to a report released by city authorities statistics office. Some 75 per cent of the 155,000 foreigners resident in Rome are in employment compared to the 62 per...
The season opens at La Scala in Milan on 7 Dec , with the prima of Zeffirellis new production of Aida; tickets for all performances were sold out on the first day. However, although Italy is where opera was invented, it...
Vive la Peinture!!! Amitis Matisse. This exultant battle cry is sprawled over a postcard addressed to Monsieur P. Bonnard art peintre. Matisse jotted it down when he came out of a museum in Amsterdam on 13 August 1925. T...
Intimidation and violence lurk like a shadow in the background of an increasingly acrimonious tussle now building up between Romes city hall and its angry taxi drivers, who are up in arms over controversial council decis...
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