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Pope Benedict XVI is supporting calls to boycott an Italian referendum on assisted fertility, scheduled for 12-13 June. In the referendum, which requires a 50 per cent plus one vote turnout to be valid Italians, will be...
The Italian association for historic houses (Associazione Dimore Storiche Italiane) and Italys telecommunications operator, Telecom Italia, are offering the public the opportunity to see works by three great artists in t...
You are a busy criminal lawyer, representing defendants. On your desktop computer you list and index all your clients, including the allegations against them, any criminal record, arguments in their defence, keyed in ver...
Tuesday 31 May will be another day of local public transport strikes all over Italy. In Rome the buses, trams, metro and trolley buses will strike from 08.30 to 17.00 and then again from 20.00 to 24.00.
The transport wo...
Traffic to the south of Italy has been delayed over the past few days following the discovery of two bombs both of them dropped by the Allies during world war two which have been uncovered during excavations for buildi...
Cases of infections caught by patients in Italian hospitals are now running at up to 700,000 per year, says a report by lOspedale Spallanzani di Roma. The Infinos 2 survey is the largest study of its kind carried out in...
Ever since King Carlo III of Naples started excavations in 1748, thousands of studies have been made of the lost city of Pompeii, but the site still comes up with surprises. For the last ten years, a laboratory of applie...
For more than 150 years this steep horseshoe-shaped park was an important part of the tourist itinerary in Tivoli. It was visited by artists, poets, kings and emperors, but then it fell into a state of abandonment and di...
Golf is a rather strange and reviled game. Ask any non-golfer and you may find that he or she still agrees, even at a subconscious level, with Mark Twains old dictum about a good walk spoiled. Is golf a sport? Well no, n...
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...
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