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Around 4,000 people turned out to see the crowning of Mr Gay and Miss Lesbica Roma 2006 in S. Giovanni on 30 September. The winners were chosen from among 30 male finalists and 15 female finalists by a jury including mem...
The minimum age for buying alcohol will rise from 16 to 18 years of age according to new government measures announced this week to protect minors and prevent accidents on Italian roads. There will also be a total ban on...
Ten thousand tickets were sold in the first two days of tickets going on sale for the first Rome film festival that will take place from 13 to 21 October. Sales have initially been limited to films that will be shown at...
Theatres in Rome will be free for all during a series of special events this Sunday 1 October from 10.00-24.00.
Some 34 theatres will take part in this initiative entitled "Festa dei teatri" which will see over 50 event...
Industrial action scheduled at airports for Friday 29 September, due to have affected the entire sector, has been suspended. Trade union members will meet the prime minister Romano Prodi for talks at Palazzo Chigi on 10...
The many reality shows on Italian television are not drawing audiences as they used to.
L'Isola dei Famosi is now only attracting around 16 per cent of television viewers, Reality Circus' second episode was only watche...
Members of the chamber of deputies are questioning why they have to pay for haircuts while their colleagues at the senate get theirs for free.
Deputies of all political affiliations are united in their petition for free...
Members of the public will get the opportunity to have a rare peek inside the buildings that house the various banks of Italy on Saturday 7 October. For the fifth edition of Invito a palazzo, 110 buildings of 53 differen...
Domestic news in Italy over the summer is typically dominated by immigration issues and this summer has been no exception. While newspaper headlines told of the unfolding crisis in the Middle East, inside pages carried r...
He was so strong that once he got under a cow and lifted it up with his bare hands. He was very keen on wrestling as well: hed take us on three-to-one and throw the lot of us to the ground. And when he played soccer with...
To keep up with modern times Romes enterprising parish of S. Anastasia al Palatino has recently launched their Pray for Me call centre.
This service is aimed at all those believers who are too busy to pray. From now on...
The government has approved an emergency decree making it illegal to store information collected by unauthorised telephone tappings, to use it as evidence in court or to publish it in the media. All illegal wiretaps must...
lThe traditional Japanese form of theatre, kabuki, will be celebrated in an exhibition of over 40 prints at the Japanese Cultural Institute 9 Sept-18 Oct.
Widespread in popular Japanese culture from the 1600s onwards, k...
As soon as you arrive at Via Fracassini in the Flaminio district youll notice that things are done a little differently here. Brightly-dressed men and women are strewn all over the pavement, chatting in groups, pulling o...
Rome is full of fountains. There is one for almost every square in the historic centre, gushing, sprinkling and sparkling, to the delight of passers-by. Among them is the newly restored Turtle Fountain in Piazza Mattei n...
Sunday 24 September will be a traffic-free day in Rome, city authorities have announced. All cars and motorcycles will be banned from the historic centre, Trastevere, Via dei Fori Imperiali, Via Cola di Rienzo and Via Ap...
Entry to state and city museums and archaeological sites throughout Rome will be free on Saturday 23-Sunday 24 September as part of the European Heritage Days initiative. State museums throughout the rest of Italy will a...
The city's safety and order committee has given the go ahead for the installation of videocameras on Rome's most notorious prostitution streets.
Stricter security measures, more street lights, tighter traffic controls a...
I undertake to ensure that MAXXI is finished by the end of 2008, said culture minister Francesco Rutelli at the opening of an exhibition on contemporary museums at the site of the Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secol...
From Friday 22 to Sunday 24 September Italy's "Clean up the World" initiative will take place, an event in which ordinary citizens of all ages play their part in ridding their local city streets, parks, piazze and rivers...
Italian postal service Poste Italiane announced the end of the generic postcode for Rome and 27 other cities on 20 September. Until now people posting to a Rome address for which they did not know the postcode could use...
Smog kills more than 8 000 Italians each year.
This was the conclusion of research conducted by Italy's environmental protection agency APAT in conjunction with the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The study, carried o...
In a further tightening of the interpretation of the legal responsibilities of the car driver, the high court (Corte di Cassazione) has ruled that, if the driver of a car does not ensure passengers fasten their seatbelts...
From 17 September, according to a ruling by the high court (Corte di Cassazione), it is obligatory to keep all dogs which are more than eight months old and stand more than 30cms high at the shoulder-blades on a leash wh...
According to an analysis on Reading, media and cultural interests among the Italians over the last ten years commissioned by the ministry of fine arts and culture from the research institute, Eurisko, Italian women read...
There will be a public transport strike on Friday 15 September affecting all of Romes buses, metros, trams and local railways. The strike will begin at 0.00 on Friday morning and will conclude at 23.59. Normal service is...
Romes answer to the Hollywood Oscars, the prizes to be awarded for best film, best actor and best actress at Romes film festival, which will run from 13 21 October 2006, have been designed by Bulgari, the prestigious Vi...
City underground authority Met.Ro is to install 45 antiterrorism cameras on board carriages of the metro A line in October. The new security measure is aimed at helping to prevent possible terrorist attacks on the citys...
People are getting away with illegal behaviour in the city's public parks and gardens, according to an article in Leggo, one of Romes free daily papers.
It is prohibited to drive motorbikes in pedestrian areas, let dog...
Readers will almost certainly remember where they were and what they were doing on Tuesday 11 September 2001.
The horror of the terrorist attacks against the United States, together with the fact that the modern media...
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