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In just two months, the 2006-2007 ski season has already registered seven deaths, the latest three resulting from collisions just 48 hours apart.
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According to a study issued by the Istituto Italiano di Medicina Sociale, 45 per cent of young people in Italy between the ages of 30 and 34 still live with their parents.
One child in four is born to a mother over 34,...
Car sales in Italy in the month of January 2007, at about 300,000, are three and a half per cent higher than in January 2006. Of these cars, 78,000, or 31.4 per cent were of the Fiat group (against 30.7 per cent in 2006...
The composer Gian Carlo Menotti, founder of the Spoleto Festival, has died at the age of 95 in Montecarlo.
Born in Cadegliano (Varese) on 7 July 1911, he began his musical studies at the Milan conservatoire, before mo...
Three new stations were inaugurated on the Roma Tiburtina-Guidonia (FR2) railway line to the east of the city centre on 1 February. Trains now make two stops on the stretch between Stazione Prenestina and Tor Sapienza at...
The senate has passed a motion to enlarge the American military base in Vicenza by a six-vote margin, mainly thanks to support from the centre-right opposition. Many in the government
Veronica Lario, the wife of ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, has sent an angry letter to a national newspaper demanding a public apology from her husband for some flirtatious comments he made at a gala dinner.
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Rome city council is planning to move some of its offices out of the Campidoglio to the Ostiense area of the city, freeing up some 30,000 sqm of the current buildings for new public museum areas. Only the offices of the...
According to a report in free newspaper Leggo the new train station of Quattro Venti, which was inaugurated in November last year, is in a state of neglect.
The Quattro Venti station is situated in viale dei Quattro Ve...
Cars with license plates ending in odd numbers will be banned from the city
Tobacco sales in Italy in 2006 registered an increase of 1.1 per cent over 2005, which translates into about one million kilos. The figures are contained in the Tobacco Observatory, a publication issued three times a yea...
To celebrate 60 years since its founding, Ferrari yesterday began a
According to figures released by Asaps (Associazione amici sostenitori della Polstrada), the numbers of those stopped by the road police and fined for talking on mobiles while driving has risen from 36,517 in 2005 to 40,...
Eleven bidders stepped forward to express interest in buying up a large chunk of the Italian government
Switch off your lights for five minutes on Thursday 1 February between 19.55 and 20.00 if you are concerned with energy wastage and global warning. The campaign is being organized by the French environment group
Italy opens up to liberalization
The government has given the green light to a new package of liberalisation laws masterminded by minister for economic development Pierluigi Bersani. The new laws are principally aimed...
Starting on 4 February it will be possible to visit the Palazzo Senatorio on the Capitoline Hill on the first Sunday of every month. The visits, in groups 30, will take place every 10
Cars with license plates ending in even numbers will be banned from the city
Italian petrol companies are to be investigated by the European Union antitrust watchdog over allegations of price fixing. Nine companies in total will be under scrutiny for exchanging information and influencing the pri...
The city has announced that it will demolish the elevated tract of the urban motorway known as the Tangenziale Est. Since its inception in the 1970s, the Tangenziale Est has been a bone of contention between city planne...
In Greek mythology the Medusa was a creature who was so frightful you could not look at her. If you did, she turned you to stone. Perseus, before he fell in love with Andromeda and freed her from her sea guardian, slew t...
We have finally made it. After months of planning, setbacks, delays and then more planning our new office is open, just opposite the Turtle Fountain in Piazza Mattei. The precise address is Via dei Falegnami 79; we form...
After making steady progress since joining the Six Nations rugby tournament in 2000, Italy
Every year around 25 January, Scots all over the world get together to partake in a convivial evening
Next time you buy bus tickets from your local edicola take a look around you. Among the assortment of DVDs, magazine freebies and football-related paraphernalia you will spot this year
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