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The Pantano-S. Giovanni stretch of the new metro C line will be opening a year and a half earlier than predicted, Romes mayor Walter Veltroni has announced. The 21 stations of the Pantano-S.Giovanni section will be open...
Sunday 29 October will be a no-traffic day in Rome. From 10.00-18.00 no private vehicles will be permitted in the limited zones of the historic centre, parts of Trastevere, Via dei Fori Imperiali and Via Appia Antica as...
Italy hosts more than three million immigrants which comprise over 5 per cent of the country's population, according to the annual report recently released by Caritas, a Catholic relief, development and social service or...
Drawing on the mortality figures for 2003, ISTAT has issued a report which will cause the directors of INPS, Italys state pension organization, many a sleepless night, with the Italian male enjoying an average life span...
Rome has been classified number 60 out of 103 Italian cities for the environmental quality of life it offers, making it the most "liveable" major city in the country, according to the 2007 Urban Ecosystem report presente...
Luggage takes too long to arrive (about 45 minutes at Fiumicino airport), passport formalities are slow (only two channels for immigration at Ciampino), taxi drivers are quarrelsome and still manage to rip off their pass...
Ninety people die every day in Italy due to medical "errors"according to the Italian Association of Oncology which is currently holding a national convention in Milan.
Overall, medical errors account for 30-35,000 death...
The laptop computer is the essential accessory for travelling professionals and students alike. To accommodate such portable technology, big city bars, cafs and libraries have begun offering complimentary WiFi, or wirele...
An almost secret corridor now links the remains of the very oldest Rome ever exposed in public and the spectacular horizons of the Rome of today. It is a connection between the Campidoglio the first hill of ancient Rome...
In June of this year, over 1,000 people were detained and 85 charged in one of the biggest cases of insurance fraud in Italian history. The scam involved simulating car accidents through falsified documents in order to f...
City authorities have launched a new cleaning operation for 57 streets and squares in Trastevere in partnership with Ama, Romes environmental and waste collection body. Squads of Ama employees will sweep and wash the str...
lThe American Academy in Rome starts the new academic year with a contemporary art exhibition entitled 3500cm2: Art by way of a poster, 20 Oct-2 Nov.
The 3500cm2 of the title refers to the surface area of a 50x70cm post...
The European Library, organized by the various European cultural academies and institutes in the capital, is set to open officially on 24 October. The 600-sqm library, hosted by the Goethe Institute in Via Savoia 15, hol...
Monica Cirinn, Rome city authoritys head of animal rights, has drawn attention to a regulation in force since November 2005 but unknown to the majority of Rome residents, which states that it is legal to bury domestic pe...
The senate and the chamber of deputies have given the go ahead for Romes 2016 summer Olympics bid. The motion was approved by all parties except the radical Lega Nord party, which advocates greater regional autonomy. C...
Italian men are more willing than in the past to tie on their apron strings but are still not doing enough.
According to Italian research institute Astra Ricerche (which conducted the survey for Procter and Gamble) men...
As from 1 January 2007 Italy will be one of the new, non-permanent members of the United Nations security council.
Each year five non-permanent members are selected to form part of the UN Security Council. Italy was ele...
City transport authority Atac has launched a new service that enables drivers to pay for parking between blue lines via text message, internet or phone in addition to the usual parking metres and scratch cards. Drivers w...
Pick-pocketing and bag-snatching in Rome has increased by nearly 25 per cent in the last year, according to a new police report. Currently around 61 such thefts a day are reported in the capital, up from 49 a day in 2005...
One people has died, instead of the two as originally thought, in the metro crash in Rome on Tuesday morning. About 100 people were injured, at least five seriously, when two new high-tech trains on the metro A line in...
The first of the cameras planned for various crossroads in the capital will go into action on 19 October on the Via Cristoforo Colombo, at the crossing with the Circonvallazione Ostiense. The cameras will photograph whoe...
A new station on the Roma Ostiense Cesano Viterbo railway line (Fr 3) has opened in the Viale Quattro Venti in Monteverde, a few days ahead of the scheduled opening. The station is an important step in Rome councils of...
Referring to the sixth European retail theft barometer, a report on shoplifting which draws on information supplied by Checkpoint Systems, Coldiretti, the organisation of farmers and agricultural businesses, reveals that...
The long-running saga of the attempts to dislodge the Circolo degli Ufficiali (officers club) from the Palazzo Barberini in Rome is finally reaching a conclusion. The present minister of fine arts and culture, Francesco...
Italys chamber of deputies has voted in favour of blocking the project for the construction of the Messina bridge, which would have linked Sicily to mainland Italyat least for the time being.
The project was deemed "not...
The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso XIV, will be in Rome on Saturday 14 November to receive an honorary degree in biology from the Roma Tre University. The Dalai Lama is both the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and the he...
A TV satire show called Le Iene (The Hyenas) secretly tested 50 Italian MPs for drugs and it found that one in three had taken either cannabis or cocaine in the previous 36 hours.
The Hyenas' television show, which airs...
Thirteen important works of ancient art have been returned to Italy by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, a move to be seen as a very important step in the fight against the illicit trade in works of art found in the cou...
The horses of Rome are still not wearing their specially-designed pants. Last summer, an agreement was signed between the city council and the Rome carriage drivers trade union (associazione sindacale dei vetturini roman...
According to figures under discussion at Cernobbio at a conference to present a survey by the consultancy firm Ambrosetti The European House on old age within the European Union, of the ten cities within the EU with the...
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