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Italy's most famous and successful club Juventus have been relegated to the second division of Italian football and docked 30 points following an investigation into match-fixing.
Fellow Serie A league sides Lazio and Fi...
Talks between taxi drivers and the ministry of economic development broke down on 13 July, prompting wildcat demonstrations that slowed traffic and blocked Piazza Venezia in Rome. Taxi drivers are protesting against new...
Ten young dolphins have been found washed up on the shores of the Gulf of Venice over the last ten days between Basso Veneto and the Marche, prompting fears of a lethal virus. Experts are particularly concerned because t...
The unseemly spat in the Italian noble Savoia family over which member should be the head of the family is causing grave embarrassment to Italys minuscule monarchist party and some mirth amongst the vast majority of the...
The Vatican has announced a positive balance of 9.7 million for the year 2005, the highest in the last eight years, despite expenses incurred during the change of popes. The cost of the funeral of John Paul II and the co...
From Friday 14 July it will once again be legal to carry a passenger on the back of a low-powered 50cc scooter, overturning an unpopular law made by the last government. Three conditions have been imposed, however: the d...
Marcello Lippi has resigned as Italy's football coach just three days after leading the country to a fourth World Cup title.
Lippi was at the helm for over two years, culminating in Sunday's World Cup Final win over Fra...
Five hundred years ago, on 14 January 1506, a large and beautifully intricate marble sculpture was discovered in a vineyard at the Terme di Tito on the Colle Oppio in Rome. The sculpture depicted the Trojan priest Laocoo...
Sitting on a Rome roof-terrace one early summer evening during cocktail hour, I overheard an American girl ask: Whats with those birds up there?
She pointed to the hundreds of swirling, darting, spiralling, lunging bird...
Assaulted by thousands gasping for air in summer and once by Roman emperors the coastline of the giant province of Rome, has nevertheless long been a dicey place, tinged with scandal.
Over the past few years whisper...
A summer of science
City Museum of Zoology, Via Ulisse Aldrovandi 18, tel. 0632609200, www.commune.roma.it/museozoologia.
Until 28 July.
Summer camp for children 5-11 years of age. Science workshops, laboratories a...
The director of the Holy See press office, Joaqun Navarro-Valls, resigned from his post after 22 years of service on 11 July. Spanish-born Navarro-Valls trained in medicine and journalism and was appointed director in 19...
Everyone is, of course, familiar with the saying When in Rome, do as the Romans do. It is an oft-repeated phrase because, deep down, we know that the Italians have got so many things right. Forget the bureaucratic nightm...
Thousands of jubilant Italian fans welcomed home their World Cup heroes with open arms last night.
An estimated crowd of half a million lined the streets of Rome as the national football team paraded through the streets...
Rejoicing spilled over into violence in some parts of Romes historic centre during the late-night celebrations for Italys victory over France in the final of the World Cup on Sunday.
Police cars in Piazza Venezia at one...
Passport requests and renewals can now be made at 1,500 post offices in the 20 largest towns in Italy, Poste Italiane announced on 7 July. The new service presents an alternative to the other methods of obtaining a passp...
Italy are World Champions for the fourth time after a thrilling win over France. The Azzurri could not have claimed soccers World Cup in more dramatic fashion, winning 5-3 with their last kick in a penalty shoot-out in B...
The management of the Italian National Chocolate Company is protesting about the government increasing the sales tax, IVA, from 10 to 20 percent on certain confectionary, including chocolate.The president of the company,...
Archaeological excavations began on 7 July on two central sections of Romes proposed metro C line, which will run between Piazzale Clodio and Pantano (Casilino). The work on the Piazzale Clodio-Piazza Venezia and the Pia...
Rome and the rest of Italy are holding their breath for tonights soccer World Cup final in Berlin. Streets and squares will be eerily deserted of Italians as the Azzurri play France for the most famous trophy in world sp...
Traffic will be banned from the historic centre in Rome following Sunday 9 Julys Italy-France World Cup final in an effort to curb vandalism. The sale of drinks in cans and bottles has also been banned during the match a...
The advertisement opens with a group of young women dressed in black who quite suddenly begin to dance the haka, the New Zealand Maori dance which the All Black Rugby team performs before a game. When they have finished...
There will be a national public transport strike on Saturday 8 July. In Rome the strike begins at 8.30 and involves buses, trams, trolley buses, underground lines A and B as well as the trains running Roma-Lido, Roma-Pan...
A 1.5 million project to repave Piazza Venezia started on 7 July and is expected to continue until September. The repaving will be true to the squares original design by Corrado Ricci and will eliminate holes and uneven...
The Ara Pacis was forced to close to the public on 5 July when staff walked out after temperatures inside the museum pavilion reached 32 degrees by 10.00. Organisers said the problem was due to the air conditioning syst...
Taxi drivers have called off wildcat strikes over the governments new law that will liberalise the issuing of taxi licences. Rome and other major cities in Italy had suffered for four days from the suspension of taxi ser...
On 9 July the cruise liner, Costa Concordia, will sail from the port of Civitavecchia for a brief inaugural Mediterranean cruise, taking in Tunis, Malta, Tripoli, Civitavecchia and Savona.
The giant boat, built by Ital...
The Rome summer sales are due to begin on Saturday 8 July. These will be the first under the government's new regulations to ease-up on the previously strict requirements controlling the such seasonal promotions. There w...
Italys taxi drivers were continuing protests on 5 July against the governments new liberalization laws after talks with the ministry of economic development failed to reach a satisfactory conclusion. Taxi drivers have sa...
The Aeolian archipelago, to the north of Messina in Sicily, is suffering a more severe water shortage than usual. During July and August the resident population of 12,120 permanent residents increases to about 100,000, a...
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