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Recent research by a monthly magazine Riza Psicosomatica has found that 42 per cent of Italians carry patent medicines with them just in case they feel ill or have pain. They most fear suffering from sudden toothache, a...
There are food festivals all over Italy for those who have a fat pocketbook and a passion for truffles. The national white truffle festival will run until 6 November in Alba, Italys most famous town for truffles. A truf...
Avian flu is a global threat, according to a joint declaration released yesterday by EU foreign ministers. As the alarm was raised, Italian consumer protection group Codacons urged national authorities to clear our citie...
A festival for chocoholics is currently under way in Perugia in the Umbria region of Italy. The annual Eurochocolate festival, which transforms the Umbrian city into the chocolate capital of Europe, includes exhibitions,...
Figures released by ISTAT, the Italian national statistics institute, on the eve of the opening of the international book fair in Frankfurt, show that in 2004 there was a drop in the number of publishing houses in Italy...
Das Rheingold, prologue to the trilogy Der Ring des Nibelungen, is notoriously difficult to stage, with enormous differences of settings between one scene and the next and the necessity of a huge orchestra. This new prod...
Air traffic controllers at Romes Fiumicino International airport have declared a four-hour strike on Wednesday19 October from 12.00 - 16.00. The strike has caused the cancellation of 102 Alitalia flights and may well put...
The director general of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Jacques Diouf, reminded those present at the meeting to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the organisation that 13 people in e...
Why the long face? Is the thought of disposing of your lightweight, barely-there summer wardrobe unbearable? Are you feeling out of sorts because theres no other choice but to store away halter necks, tank tops, flowery...
When the then centre-left city mayor Francesco Rutelli commissioned American architect Richard Meier to design a new pavilion for the Ara Pacis in Piazza Augusto Imperatore in 1996, he could never have imagined that it w...
Letters of love and hate.
The English Theatre in Rome is staging two productions featuring the art of letter writing. Address Unknown tells of the correspondence between two German men one of whom is Jewish between...
Hey, Rosita I hafta go shopping downtown
For my mudder she needs some tortillas and
Chilli peppers.
From the song Speedy Gonzales.
Words and music by Kaye, Lee and Hill
The Californian rock group and the wor...
At the beginning of August, underwater archaeologists excavating at Lake Bracciano north of Rome brought to the surface a nine metre-long dugout canoe hewn from a massive oak trunk. Some 9,000 years old, buried under thr...
Against a background of nostalgic protests on the one hand and down-to-earth relief on the other, the historic cobblestones of Rome are now being pulled out of their beds in the citys busiest thoroughfares and replaced b...
For 20 years the Corpo Forestale, Italys special environmental corps, has been compiling a census of the Italian forests, which include more than 2,000 examples of trees of special interest and 150 trees that are classif...
Victory for Romano Prodi was assured late on Sunday night in Italys primary elections to choose the leader of the Unione centre-left wing coalition. Parliamentary elections are due next spring and should the Unione coali...
From 17 October, all poultry on sale in Italian butchers shops, supermarkets and markets must have a new label, so that the health authorities can trace all birds back to their origin. The label must show the local healt...
No more carte blanche for genetically-modified organisms in Lazio they may no longer be cultivated in the region (apart from in greenhouses and for research purposes). Restaurant owners and anyone else selling foodstuff...
Disastrous consequences await Romes cultural landscape in 2006 if the Italian governments proposed budget cuts go ahead. Cultural events in Italy such as theatre performances, exhibitions and contemporary Italian cinema...
During the first nine months of this year, 1,519 hopeful couples living in Lazio have applied to adoption a child. Some 900 of these would-be parents applied through national agencies while over 600 have taken the intern...
From 25 October, Rome residents will receive a discount when buying ecological motorcycles and electric cars. The Lazio regional government has set aside 4 million in subsidies for 2005. To receive the discount, anyone b...
Italians call them baby-cubist, the teenage girls who dance atop pedestals, stage props or Perspex cubes in Romes numerous clubs for under-18s. And like their counterparts in adult clubs, they are often scantily clad wea...
Anyone over 18 not in possession of a normal driving licence who drives a low-powered motor vehicle (motorcycle, tricycle, quad or one of the low-powered mini cars) must now obtain a licence to do so. The licence may be...
Owners of the 1,700 commercial internet points and telephone centres in the province and the city of Rome should have applied to the police by the 26 September for a special register to record customers identities and de...
Romes political leaders have been promising action for years to tackle the epidemic of double-parking in the city. From Monday 17 October the traffic authorities will be redoubling their efforts to tackle the problem alo...
The Rome city council and the national institute of geophysics and vulcanology are evaluating the possibility of using hot water from natural geothermal cisterns below 100 metres in certain areas of Rome. Hot water from...
Mussolinis former residence at Villa Torlonia, along the Via Nomentana, is coming to the end of a 4 million facelift. Around 60 specialists in everything from marble to frescos are at work every day at the villa, restori...
Rubbish collection in the Trastevere area of Rome has altered in the past months, since AMA, the city rubbish collection company, instituted an experimental system. Instead of communal bins on the street, the rubbish, wh...
There are now 6.8 million unattached Italians between 25 and 64, and one in three has tried online dating in the search for a new companion. So says the latest survey from Parship, www.parship.it. The company based these...
Anyone with an electoral voting card, wanting to vote in the primary elections for the leader of the centre-left LUnione political coalition on Sunday 16 October, can get information on www.unioneweb.it.
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