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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...
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...
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