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l An exhibition by German Barbara Camilla Tucholski might never have taken place after more than 100 drawings were stolen from a minibus while the artist was giving a tour to students in November 2004. However, the art s...
Italians are the largest consumers of mineral water in the world, drinking 189 litres per head last year compared with 69 litres per head in the United States. In Italy there are177 producers, marketing 265 different bra...
Local shopkeepers and bar owners are infuriated by an outbreak of robberies and break-ins in Via Conca dOro situated in Romes IV municipality, in Montesacro. The area is north-east of the city centre sandwiched just off...
The 18th Ladies Italian Open was officially presented at the Bernini Bristol Hotel on Thursday 26 May, the opening speech being delivered by the deputy mayor of Rome, Maria Pia Garavaglia. The traditional Pro-Am competit...
Police and local authorities in Rome are considering more stringent fines for double-parking. Backed by major consumer associations, the plans involve charging offenders for obstructing the flow of traffic as well as dou...
The Italian economy is now in recession according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. In its twice-yearly economic outlook, the OECD forecast that Italian GDP would contract by 0.6 per cent in 2...
There will be a conference in Rome to mark the 10th anniversary of the genocide in Srebrenica and of the signing of the Dayton treaty to end the war in Bosnia on 27 May.
The conference has been organised by the communi...
Thursday 26 May sees the opening day of competitions in the 73rd edition of the Piazza di Siena showjumping and equestrian event in the Villa Borghese park in Rome. Famous names from the world of showjumping will be comp...
After the turn of the century, Severini, like many of his generation repelled by the past, then also became increasingly impatient with the experiments of pointillism and divisionism. Suddenly something wild swept up the...
The irresistibly tragic tale of Pia de Tolomei has provided inspiration for an opera by Donizetti, a painting by Dante Gabriele Rossetti, and mention by various poets, including Ezra Pound, T.S.Eliot and, most famously,...
The mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, has announced the start of a programme of public and private investment aimed at rejuvenating nine municipalities in the Rome suburbs. The sums are equal to the amounts spent on spruci...
Coinciding with the European Day of Parks on 24 May, the World Wildlife Fund released its first white paper on the state of Italys parks, detailing the merits and flaws of the countrys nature management. With 777 protect...
As Rome's football team, Roma, flirts with a trip to Serie B, its upstart basketball squad is racing toward the Legabasket championships. Lottomatica Roma defeated defending Italian league champion Montepaschi Siena in f...
Whether you wish to party like a rock star, bop to the latest chart-topping hits or chill to the sound of a live band, a party to be held on Weds 1 June in aid of Students for Africa promises something for everyone.
Th...
The third edition of the childrens film and literature festival opens in Rome on 23 May. The festival, entitled Alice nella citt will have a jury of 600 children between 8 and 18 years old. They will be asked to judge a...
Italian women are discriminated against at work and when they look for work. These are the findings of a recently-published World Economic Forum survey on the gender gap index in 58 countries 30 developed and 28 emergin...
After years of improvements, pollution is rising again in several coastal regions, according to a leaked report from Italys ministry of health. Swimming is now banned along 433 km of Italys shores, Campania being the wor...
For every 100 earned by Italian workers, their employers pay 45 in social security contributions, according to figures published by Confindustria, the Italian employers association. With workers forking out a further 13...
Rome city council has introduced more rules to make recycling rubbish easier. The council and AMA, the refuse disposal company, have plans to provide the whole of Rome with the various bins necessary for the differentiat...
The no-smoking law brought into force in Italy on 10 January 2005, which prohibited smoking in public places, restaurants, bars and offices, has brought down cigarette sales by nine per cent in the first four months of t...
A nationwide eight-hour strike of local public transport workers has been declared throughout Italy for Friday 20 May. In Rome the strike will begin at 08.30; there will be no buses or trams until 16.30 and the metro sta...
A total 78 per cent of Italians have a positive opinion of Joseph Ratzinger, according to a survey from independent Italian research institute Eurisko. Thirty four per cent say he is doing an excellent job, while just 12...
This year the Italian ministry of the national heritage will open all the state-owned sites and museums free of charge from 16-22 May. Last year a million people took advantage of the ministrys annual culture week. In th...
In what looks to be a landmark case, the family of a victim of passive smoking will receive a 400,000 compensation settlement from her former employer, the Italian ministry of education. Maria Sposetti, who died in 2000...
Prices continue to soar across the country, according to a report from Italian national consumer body Adoc. Comparing figures from January 2001 and May 2005, prices have risen across the board: from travel to rent to foo...
Gap-year travellers are being urged to stop off at a new British Foreign and Commonwealth Office website before heading further afield.
Advice ranges from the relatively simple setting up an email address, to the rathe...
One winters day the ants were drying their store of grain when they were approached by a cicada. Could I please beg a few grains to eat, Im so hungry and there is no food to be found. Why didnt you think of that in the s...
Malevich invented pure abstraction. Born in Kiev in 1878, he came to Moscow around 1908 and was drawn into the circles of young avantgarde artists around Mikhail Larionov and Natalia Goncharova. They were interested in t...
An advertising company wanting to make a statement about ethnic diversity and integration in Italy today couldnt have come up with a better concept. The 18-piece Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio brings to the stage three rel...
With the approach of summer, does curiosity suggest a quick trip to Krakow? Have you business to do in Brescia? Or what about a weekend in Prague? From now on, the probability is that you will be leaving from Ciampino ai...
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