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In June of this year, over 1,000 people were detained and 85 charged in one of the biggest cases of insurance fraud in Italian history. The scam involved simulating car accidents through falsified documents in order to f...
City authorities have launched a new cleaning operation for 57 streets and squares in Trastevere in partnership with Ama, Romes environmental and waste collection body. Squads of Ama employees will sweep and wash the str...
lThe American Academy in Rome starts the new academic year with a contemporary art exhibition entitled 3500cm2: Art by way of a poster, 20 Oct-2 Nov.
The 3500cm2 of the title refers to the surface area of a 50x70cm post...
The European Library, organized by the various European cultural academies and institutes in the capital, is set to open officially on 24 October. The 600-sqm library, hosted by the Goethe Institute in Via Savoia 15, hol...
Monica Cirinn, Rome city authoritys head of animal rights, has drawn attention to a regulation in force since November 2005 but unknown to the majority of Rome residents, which states that it is legal to bury domestic pe...
The senate and the chamber of deputies have given the go ahead for Romes 2016 summer Olympics bid. The motion was approved by all parties except the radical Lega Nord party, which advocates greater regional autonomy. C...
Italian men are more willing than in the past to tie on their apron strings but are still not doing enough.
According to Italian research institute Astra Ricerche (which conducted the survey for Procter and Gamble) men...
As from 1 January 2007 Italy will be one of the new, non-permanent members of the United Nations security council.
Each year five non-permanent members are selected to form part of the UN Security Council. Italy was ele...
City transport authority Atac has launched a new service that enables drivers to pay for parking between blue lines via text message, internet or phone in addition to the usual parking metres and scratch cards. Drivers w...
Pick-pocketing and bag-snatching in Rome has increased by nearly 25 per cent in the last year, according to a new police report. Currently around 61 such thefts a day are reported in the capital, up from 49 a day in 2005...
One people has died, instead of the two as originally thought, in the metro crash in Rome on Tuesday morning. About 100 people were injured, at least five seriously, when two new high-tech trains on the metro A line in...
The first of the cameras planned for various crossroads in the capital will go into action on 19 October on the Via Cristoforo Colombo, at the crossing with the Circonvallazione Ostiense. The cameras will photograph whoe...
A new station on the Roma Ostiense Cesano Viterbo railway line (Fr 3) has opened in the Viale Quattro Venti in Monteverde, a few days ahead of the scheduled opening. The station is an important step in Rome councils of...
Referring to the sixth European retail theft barometer, a report on shoplifting which draws on information supplied by Checkpoint Systems, Coldiretti, the organisation of farmers and agricultural businesses, reveals that...
The long-running saga of the attempts to dislodge the Circolo degli Ufficiali (officers club) from the Palazzo Barberini in Rome is finally reaching a conclusion. The present minister of fine arts and culture, Francesco...
Italys chamber of deputies has voted in favour of blocking the project for the construction of the Messina bridge, which would have linked Sicily to mainland Italyat least for the time being.
The project was deemed "not...
The Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso XIV, will be in Rome on Saturday 14 November to receive an honorary degree in biology from the Roma Tre University. The Dalai Lama is both the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and the he...
A TV satire show called Le Iene (The Hyenas) secretly tested 50 Italian MPs for drugs and it found that one in three had taken either cannabis or cocaine in the previous 36 hours.
The Hyenas' television show, which airs...
Thirteen important works of ancient art have been returned to Italy by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, a move to be seen as a very important step in the fight against the illicit trade in works of art found in the cou...
The horses of Rome are still not wearing their specially-designed pants. Last summer, an agreement was signed between the city council and the Rome carriage drivers trade union (associazione sindacale dei vetturini roman...
According to figures under discussion at Cernobbio at a conference to present a survey by the consultancy firm Ambrosetti The European House on old age within the European Union, of the ten cities within the EU with the...
The pundits will tell you the Rome of Pier Paolo Pasolini has vanished; Pasolini, the rebel poet, film-maker, novelist and Marxist intellectual from Bologna who discovered in Rome the one place in the world where his nat...
One of the best quips about retiring to Italy is Gracie Fields (about Capri): I was looking for somewhere like Blackpool only warmer. Umbria and Tuscany, the areas chosen by about 6,000 Britons of retirement age, arent...
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Il Caminetto opened in 1959 and it is the restaurant equivalent of a Chanel suit it never goes out of style.
Frequented by ragazzi alla moda, elegant elderly couples and well-kno...
Like many small towns in Lazio, Zagarolo possessed a splendid, if somewhat dilapidated, palace. In 1980 the town council had purchased the 16th-century Palazzo Rospigliosi, which had once been the country retreat of the...
Marilina Tuccinardi, the person responsible for children in the Rome city council social policies department, is in no doubt: The law is in the interests of the children and must be respected.
The law in question is a...
A double fare system is causing confusion among passengers trying to take taxis into Rome from Fiumicino airport. On 1 October, a fixed tariff of 40 for trips between the airport and anywhere within the Aurelian walls ca...
The 30 members of the Vaticans international theological commission, headed by Cardinal Joseph Levada, are recommending to the pope the cancellation of limbo. Limbo is that corner on the borders of hell to which are cons...
The director of St Petersburgs Hermitage Museum, Mikhail Petrovsky, has announced that Castello Estense in Ferrara has been chosen to house the Centro Studi Rinascimentali dellHermitage di San Pietroburgo or Hermitage It...
An estimated 3.5 million Italians are currently residing outside the bel paese according to a recent report published by Migrantes, an Italian-based religious organisation.
The report, entitled "Italians around the worl...
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