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I like [centre-left leader] Romano Prodi and Im going to vote for him at election time, but if I met him, Id almost slap him in the face for that remark about us: you know, about the danger of the suburbs of Italy explod...
On the evening of 30 September 1975, a resident of Via Pola in Rome heard the muffled cries of a woman coming from the boot of a parked white Fiat and called the police. When they arrived and opened up the boot of the ca...
From 24 March until 2 April the city and province of Turin and the region of Piedmont are organising ChocolaTO a festival of chocolate. Turin has been a chocolate city for several centuries. The manufacture of drinking...
Unemployment levels in Rome dropped from 11.1 per cent to 6.5 per cent of the labour force between 2001 and 2005, according to a report carried out by Censis, the socio-economic research institute. The figures place Rome...
The Bank of Italy has published a spring bulletin which paints a gloomy picture of the state of the Italian economy. The number of people in full time work has fallen for the first time in ten years by 0.4 per cent; alth...
The Acqua Albule spa, one of the most important thermal baths in Italy, will re-open on 18 March following more than a year of restoration and rebuilding. The sulphur springs in the plain between Rome and Tivoli were men...
To mark the third anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq a peace march is due to take place in the centre of Rome on Saturday 18 March. It will start at the Piazza Esedra at 14.30 and will follow a route which...
Every year the Italian government issues regulations called "the decreto flussi" which specify the number of permits that will be offered to long and short time foreign workers from outside the European Union, who have b...
The annual Lenten Rice Bowl collection organised by English-speaking churches in the city is in aid of the European Womens Solidarity Fund and its work in Bosnia in particular. During the six-week period of Lent leading...
The recently restored Forte Portuense has opened to the public for the first time in its history. Built in 1884, it was one of 16 fortresses in a defence system circling the city between the Aurelian walls and todays Gra...
On Thursday 16 March only vehicles with licence plates ending in an odd number will be permitted to circulate in Romes "fascia verde the green zone. The restriction will be in force from 15.0021.00. 16 March will be the...
Three Middlesbrough fans in Rome for the Uefa Cup match against AS Roma were stabbed during clashes with Roma supporters late on 14 March. Around 200 English fans had been drinking in two bars in Campo de Fiori when a gr...
Cinema Farnese in Campo de Fiori has reopened after 22 months restoration and remodernisation. It now holds 300 people
The cinema will screen films in original language and time is being set aside in the mornings for sc...
The first round of the pre-election face-to-face encounters between Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the Casa della Libert coalition, and the leader of the opposition LUnione coalition, Romano Prodi,...
The universities of La Sapienza, Tor Vergata and Roma Tre will open to the public on 21 March from 20.30 into the early hours of the morning for a night of lessons, shows and concerts. Professors at the universities acro...
A car sharing system which is on trial in the III municipality in Rome, around the area of the Piazza Bologna,is proving so popular that plans are being made to introduce a similar system in the historic centre of the c...
Local elections in Italy for 11 provincial governments, councils for 28 provincial capitals, including Rome, and the Sicilian regional government will be held on 28-29 May. In all 1,307 cities, towns and villages will be...
The United States state department has published a report on human rights worldwide on its official website www.state.gov. The part of the report devoted to Italy, states that Italy generally respects the rights of the p...
The Italian rugby football team playing against Wales in the Six Nations championship
won its first ever point in an away match, when they drew 18-18. The two sides fought hard to gain the upper hand, in what was a sket...
The total traffic ban, programmed in Rome for Sunday 12 March, has been postponed. Recent weather conditions have been blustery and wet which has helped to disperse the poisons in the air, making the day unnecessary. Dar...
The Unites States Academy of Science has published new findings by a group of vulcanologists, including two from the Vesuvius Observatory, which show that a major eruption of Vesuvius near Naples could be more devastatin...
One of the most famous paediatric hospitals in Rome the Bambino Ges has opened a new hostel where children from outside the city, who are receiving long treatment at the hospital, such as chemiotherapy or dialyses, may s...
Cinemas in Rome will offer reduced-price entry for films between 13 March and 13 April during the Cin Cin Cinema season, which is running for a second year. Going to see a film will cost3 Mondays-Thursdays before 18.00,...
There is to be a new bridge across the Tiber known as the Ponte della Musica or music bridge in the Flaminio area of Rome between Piazza Gentile da Fabriano and the Lungotevere Cadorna.
The design for the bridge is by B...
On Thursday 9 March only vehicles with licence plates ending in an even number will be permitted to circulate in Romes "fascia verde the green zone. The restriction will be in force from 15.0021.00. 2 March will be the e...
The minister of the interior, Giuseppe Pisan has had a second meeting with the 16-member nationwide Islamic committee set up to assist the integration of Muslims in Italy. At the meeting on 7 March the committee condemne...
The European Dive Show, annual fair for underwater sports, will run from 10-13 March in Genoa and, if the success of last years event is repeated, there will be more than 50,000 visitors. Italy is world leader in the pro...
On the eve of International womens day on 8 March, Eurisko, an independent market and social research institute, has released a survey on how the values and desires of women in Italy have changed over the past ten years....
Over one thousand people have signed up for the new solitary register Res (Romani e solidali) launched on 15 February to create greater community links by matching up free resources with the needs of people living in Rom...
Gas and electricity bills are set to rise again from 1 April following two years of constant increases. The cost of electricity will go up 2.1 per cent compared to the first quarter of 2006 and the price of methane gas w...
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