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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
The senate has approved a proposed law that will allow Italian children (or rather, their parents) to choose their mother
Operation Domus Aurea, an ongoing investigation launched by the Guardia di Finanza in 2004, has estimated that over 6.000 apartments in the capital are currently rented without contract to students alone. Agents identif...
The Italian State Monopoly controlling the sale of cigarettes has issued instructions that all automatic machines distributing cigarettes must be equipped with a system for reading identity documents in order to prevent...
The Policlinico Casilino in the eastern suburbs of Rome has started up a new service in answer to the increasing number of newborn babies abandoned in the city each year. The number of babies born outside hospitals and t...
Cars with license plates ending in odd numbers will be banned from the city
The twin fountains in Piazza Farnese are to be cleaned once again thanks to the sponsorship of Roma and Roma Uomo, two perfumes from the range of Laura Biagiotti Parfums, and of Procter & Gamble, who distribute the perfu...
Mixed marriages in Italy have increased ten times over in the last 15 years, according to news agency Ansa. Figures from the national statistics agency Istat revealed that there were 600,000 weddings between Italians and...
Trenitalia will step up ticket controls on board its regional trains as from Tuesday 16 January.The state-controlled train company has announced that its
More Italians die at the hands of a family member than at the hands of the mafia, according to a survey conducted by Eures (European Employment Services) in conjunction with news agency Ansa.
The total number of murde...
The week-long Festival delle Scienze opened at the Auditorium-Parco della Musica on 15 January. The theme of the second edition of the festival is
A provisional calendar of the events to take place throughout 2007 to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi, born in Nice on 4 July 1807, has been presented in Rome at the ministry of fine arts by...
There are at least 7,000 homeless people in Rome, according to a survey conducted by the lay community of Sant
The giant head in marble of Constantine the Great, which once adorned the Basilica of Maxentius and at the moment is on display in a courtyard of the Musei Capitolini, will be replaced with a replica being made in Schoen...
The chances of a young academic becoming a lecturer in an Italian university are extremely slim, according to figures published in the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera, based on information from the Italian ministry o...
Environmental agency AMA will continue its free collection of Christmas trees until 21 January. The agency has already collected some1,000 Christmas trees throughout the city.
Trees in good condition are sent for repla...
Cars with license plates ending in even numbers will be banned from the city
Italian president Giorgio Napolitano and the president of the republic of Turkey, Ahmet Necdet Sezer, are due to inaugurate an exhibition celebrating Turkish history at the Palazzo del Quirinale on 10 January. The free e...
As from Monday 8 January private visitors without a guide booked through a tourist agency will not be able to get into the Vatican Museums until 10.00. This will cut visiting hours by one hour fifteen minutes for people...
The Vatican Museums are introducing price increases and major changes to the queuing system effective from 8 January 2007. The biggest change to the current system is that while at present visitors without guides can ent...
Drivers not stopping when they are involved in an accident could receive four months to a year in prison, as well as a fine and the suspension of their driving licence. This applies even if the injuries to those involved...
World Cup winners maybe, but Italian football no longer draws the crowds it once did. So far this season there have been less than 20,000 spectators on average per game for the top league Seria A matches, compared with m...
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