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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. Inside, the police discovered Donatella Colasanti, 17, bloodied and bat...
According to Telefono Rosa the national voluntary helpline for crimes against women the number of reported cases of sexual violence to its central telephone line in 2005 tripled compared to figures in 2004.
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As Italy approaches a general election on 9 and 10 April, the campaign is well under way and opinion polls are published almost daily, with both the right and the left now claiming that it is ahead.
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On Thursday 16 February 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 February will b...
As the spread of birds infected with the avian flu virus continues throughout Europe, Italians are being asked to report any dead or ill birds that they find to their local health authorities or to the fire brigade. In R...
Pope Benedict XVI is expected to call his first consistory, a meeting of all cardinals, on 24 and 25 March, during which he is likely to create a number of new cardinals. At present there are a total of 178 but only 110...
A ban on domestic and commercial wood-burning fires in the highly populated areas of Milan, Brescia, Bergamo and Como came into force on 13 February. So far this year in these areas the levels of Pm10, the fine dangerous...
The Vatican Museums will celebrate their 500th anniversary this year with a series of initiatives open to the public. Francesco Buranelli, director of the Vatican Museums, unveiled the programme, which will take place th...
Couples visiting any state museum in Italy on 14 February will only have to pay the entrance fee for one person. The Valentines day offer, from the minister of fine arts and culture, will be available to same-sex couple...
Dont touch dead birds is the message from the crisis unit of the government in light of the increased number of dead swans infected with virus H5N1 of avarian flu. After the cases in Giarre (Sicily), Vibo Valentia (Calab...
According to statistics published by Istat, the national Italian statistics agency, and INPS, the national social security institute, there were 16.5 million people receiving a pension in Italy in 2004, a 1.2 per cent in...
The first cases of avian flu have been confirmed in Italy, in two swans found dead near Messina and Catania in Sicily. Another dead swan near Lecce in Puglia is suspected of having the H5N1 virus although this has still...
Sunday 12 February is the second a traffic-free Sunday in Rome of the year. All cars and motorcycles will be banned from the green zone (zona verde) of the city, most of the area within the Gran Raccordo Anulare (the mai...
A 14 km stretch of triple carriageway on Romes traffic-packed ring road, the Gran Raccordo Anulare (GRA) between Via Aurelia and Via Cassia, was officially opened at the beginning of February. Now only four km remains f...
There was not a seat free in Romes opera theatre, because Verdi's Rigoletto is one of those works so loved by the opera-going public for its heartrending storyline and wonderful melodies that none want to miss it. But th...
The official opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Turin, in which 2,500 athletes from 85 countries are participating in 15 different sports, kicked off on 10 February amid high security, and controversy about drug...
The Italian authority responsible for over-seeing fair play on the television during the current election campaign has fined Rete4, a commercial TV channel belonging to the Berlusconi family- owned company Mediaset, 150...
A discount card for tourists in Rome, costing 18 and valid for three days, will go on sale from 21 February. The card is valid for all public transport, for entry into two city museums and for discounts on various cultur...
A new exhibition recording some of the most notorious crimes in Rome opens on 10 February at the Museo di Roma in Trastevere. Roma in Nera. I Grandi Delitti tra Cronica, Storia, Costume presents the stories and graphic i...
The BBC World Service programme Newshour is being broadcast across the city of Rome and its province every evening 22.00-23.00. A number of BBC news and current affairs programmes in English can be heard by tuning into t...
Though the Romantic poets each found their way to Italy in their own time, and each for their own reasons, what drew them here, instead of to Spain or Greece, was Italys rich sense of pathos. Accurate or not, this visio...
Ever since I was a young girl I have attended weddings and witnessed families get into huge debt and spend months preparing for the event, says Jole Rotello, a communications and marketing consultant who lives in Marino,...
The dress rehearsal of the 20th winter Olympics opening ceremony is set to get underway in Turin on 8 February amid heightened concerns over security. Around 3,000 volunteers and 250 staff, including 100 dancers and acro...
Local covered food markets in Rome's historic centre will close later from March to allow workers more time to do their shopping. The city council has decided that the mercati rioni within the first municipio (1st distri...
The winter sports season is well underway and usually continues until April. Italians traditionally take time off work and school in mid-February for what is known as a settimana bianca. Clearly, the higher you go, the m...
A Roman Catholic priest from Lazio was murdered outside his church in the Black Sea port of Trabzon in Turkey on Sunday 5 Febuary. Father Andrea Santoro is thought to have been shot by a teenage boy seen fleeing from the...
How deep is it? The question was shouted from a railing overlooking a Roman forum near Piazza Venezia in January this year.
A young archaeologist in a bush-hat stepped out of the shallow well with a tape measure.
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More and more Italians are making online purchases according to a report on communications services in Italy 2001-2005 conducted by the Censis research institute and the Unione cattolica stampa italiana. Of Italys 18 mil...
Ticket sales for the winter Olympics in Turin had reached over 690,000 by 31 January. The figure falls far short of the initial 830,000 target, although the organising committee claim that the tickets sold amount to arou...
Ever since I was a young girl I have attended weddings and witnessed families get into huge debt and spend months preparing for the event, says Jole Rotello, a communications and marketing consultant who lives in Marino,...
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