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Rome is experiencing record temperatures, with thermometers registering over 37 degrees in the past few days nine degrees over the seasonal average of 28 degrees. Humidity is also high, reaching 91 per cent even in the...
Following the victory of Romano Prodis centre-left coalition in Aprils general election, his new government was sworn in on 17 May. The government comprises 102 people, including ministers with and without portfolio, dep...
It looked like a lop-sided pine cone except that instead of a cluster of leaf panels there was a clump of uneven stalks in pure silver, encrusted with tiny rain drops of glinting diamonds and pearls, fresh from final dus...
Many people in Rome were perplexed when the Islamic cultural centre of Italy was inaugurated 11 years ago. The idea of having Europes largest mosque in the very heart of Christendom was considered at best inopportune and...
For all you beach lovers looking to keep cool this summer here are nine possibilities all within the region of Lazio. Each beach on the list, ordered from north to south, offers either stabilimenti (private beaches with...
This is a shattering show beautifully represented. It is an incomparable record of the last throes of the 20th century. Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) is the father of modern photography. He was French, astute, civili...
Thursday, 29 June is a public holiday in Rome as it is the commemoration day of the citys patron saints, Sts Peter and Paul.
To celebrate this occasion an evening devoted to Rome and its music will take place on at Piaz...
A week after the Rome prefect, Achille Serra, has imposed new rules on taxis taking passengers from Romes international airport at Fiumicino into the city, the local police are being firm with the illegal cabbies who are...
Rome is the worlds 21st most expensive city to live in, while Milan is the 13th, according to the annual survey released by Mercer Consulting that classifies the cost of living in 144 major cities in six continents. Both...
Italians, many of whom have now been to the polls three times in just over two months, have voted no to the constitutional amendment passed through parliament last November by the parties in the centre-right coalition le...
Two months ago ATAC, the company responsible for running the Rome city buses, began installing special telephone columns all over the city where the public could telephone to get a taxi from the nearest rank. So far 50...
Two new giraffes have arrived in a shroud of secrecy at the Bioparco in Rome. For the past ten months, male giraffe Rocco has been living alone in the Rome Bioparco after his female companions Stella and Pallina went to...
Researchers surveying a volcano off the southern coast of Sicily have discovered that it is much bigger than expected. The existence of the volcano has been known since the 19th century but its size has come as rather a...
Pope Benedict XVI has announced the appointment of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the archbishop of Genova, as the new secretary of state of the Vatican. Cardinal Bertone will replace Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who is retiring...
British artist Marc Quinn has filled the Museo DArte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO) with skeletons, mutilated sculptures and genetically modified flowers for his first major exhibition at an Italian state museum. One of the...
Cars without catalytic converters and diesel vehicles are banned from driving in the city between 07.30 and 20.30 on Friday 23 June due to unacceptable levels of pollutants in the air. The ban applies within the fascia...
Four football clubs, Juventus, Milano, Fiorentina, and Lazio, some of which are publicly quoted companies, and as many as 26 so far unnamed individuals, have been charged with match fixing and will appear before a specia...
Italian prisons are hopelessly overcrowded with the countrys 207 prisons now holding 61,392 inmates instead of their official capacity of 42,959, according to Antigone, a prisoner rights group. The group is calling on...
The sisters of the Instituto del Sacro Cuore will leave Rome by August this year. The nuns in the French order housed at the top of the Spanish Steps since 1828 say that the reason they are leaving is because of a voca...
Horse-drawn carriage drivers are protesting against a new regulation which aims to ban their circulation from 13.00-16.00 throughout the summer period.
Irate horse and coach drivers took to trotting their horses through...
As part of its 500 year celebrations, the Vatican Museums yesterday inaugurated the revamped Missionary Ethnological museum after five years of extensive renovation work.
The first section which is now open to the publi...
The Roseto Comunale di Roma will be open until 30 June. The extension to the period open for the public is thanks to the current mild climate in Rome which has not been too taxing on the 1.200 rose bushes planted there....
Alarm bells are ringing for voluntary organisations in the Lazio area, where funds have been drastically cut, numerous projects have been cancelled and 1.300 less voluntary positions are available.
This includes 93 few...
Next Sunday and Monday, 25 and 26 June, Italians will once again go to the polls, the third time in as many months for most of them. The first was for the parliamentary elections in April, then to vote for the city counc...
Nobel prize winner Jos Saramago has cancelled his scheduled appearance at the Rome Festival delle Letterature on 22 June due to serious and unforeseen personal problems. The Portuguese author was due to close the fifth e...
On 20 June there will be a 24-hour train strike in Italy starting at 21.00. The trades union Cobas is calling the strike and although Trenitalia, the national carrier, says that the strike will be limited, it advises pas...
Victor Emanuel di Savoia, the only son of the late last king of Italy, is under arrest and in prison in Potenza, in the southern region of Basilicata, accused of being the leader of a group involved in illegal activities...
A tomb raider has revealed the existence of probably the most important Etruscan necropolis ever found. The tomb is in the Parco de Veio, 18 km to the north of Rome, between the Via Cassia and the Via Flaminia, the neare...
From 17 June new rules apply for taxis at Fiumicino airport. The road for taxis waiting to pick up passengers will be narrowed to prevent illegal taxis jumping the queue. City police will control taxis waiting for passen...
Such has been the success of the opening of the newly restored Casino Nobile at the Villa Torlonia that instead of the visits finishing on 15 June, as had been the original plan, it has been decided to continue them unti...
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