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First the price of an espresso coffee went up, then a basket of vegetables at the supermarket, now the cost of funerals is in the spotlight. According to Italian consumer association Codacons, the average burial costs fo...
Trenitalia is launching a new high-speed train service on 3 November, T-Biz between Rome and Milan to compete with the airline companies. The trains, designed for business people will make only one stop, in Bologna, and...
A collection is taking place of mens jackets, shoes, hats and gloves for distribution to the homeless around the area of Stazione Ostiense in Rome. Anyone wishing to contribute second-hand clothes (only the items stipula...
Scuffles broke out at the start of a geological survey in the mountainous area of the Val di Susa to the west of Turin on Monday (31 Oct).
The survey followed European Union approval of a project for a new high-speed tr...
A report on Romes economy has revealed that the city is the capital of audio-visual production in Italy. In 2004 there were 1,486 production companies in Rome and they made 101 films, 69 short films, 193 advertisements a...
The Vatican City may be the heart of Catholicism but as anyone who has ever been there knows, it is also the centre of a thriving and ruthless tourist trade. This is nothing new pilgrims have meant big business for hund...
lJaques-Yves Cousteau was born on 11 June 1910, in Saint-Andr-de-Cubzac in France. [], then when he was training to be a pilot a serious accident ended his aviation career. So it was the ocean that would win this adventu...
=To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Thomas Mann, there will be an exhibition entitled Heinrich and Thomas Mann in Italy at the Casa di Goethe in Rome. The two German writers moved to Italy in 1895 to visit Rome...
It is rare to witness a mould-breaking* political event but the centre-lefts primary elections in October to choose the leader of the Unione coalition fitted the bill. There was no revolution, to be sure, no blood on the...
Do you fancy a weekend, a week or a few months out of Rome? Then why not email a complete stranger on the other side of the world and ask to stay on his or her couch for a while, free of charge?
It may sound fanciful, b...
A special train is to pull out of Romes Termini station in December and launch a revolution in the Italian railway system, today regarded by Italian railway operators as stuck in the stone age.
An ITR-500 Eurostar wil...
Trouble is brewing in theatres and opera houses all over Italy, where workers are anxious about their future in view of threatened cuts to state funding for the arts, known as FUS (Fondo unico per lo spettacolo). The cli...
A new agreement has been reached between the tour operators, the bus companies and the Rome city council to regulate the numbers of tourist buses entering the city centre daily. From 1 January 2006, 300 permits will be i...
To celebrate the festivals of All Saints and All Souls, Italians traditionally visit their family tombs; Cemeteries all over Italy fill with people carrying flowers for the graves and in Rome there are two days of guided...
The department of contemporary art and architecture of the Italian ministry of fine art and culture has presented a list of 92 buildings, constructed in Rome within the last 50 years, which it considers to be architectu...
The United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) based in Rome has launched an educational video game for children aged 8-13, called Food Force. The game takes children to a fictitious island in the Indian Ocean where drough...
A species of fresh-water crabs (Potaman fluviatile) is to be found in Italy in rivers from Sicily to Tuscany but they are becoming rare, or so it was thought. Now three zoologists, Massimiliano Scalici, Daniele Macale an...
The estimated number of foreigners officially registered in Italy doubled between the years 2000 to 2004 and now stands at nearly 2.8 million, according to the latest figures from Caritas-Migrantes. The Rome diocese-base...
The European Commission is taking Italy to task over its plan for the Messina Straits bridge, following a formal complaint by the World Wildlife Fund. Brussels is concerned that the Italian government skimped on environm...
The finances of Lazios public health service are close to 2 billion in the red. Back in May, shortly after his election, regional president Piero Marrazzo raised concerns about the hole in the budget for the azienda sani...
Romes mayor, Walter Veltroni, has announced that the city council will debate a special package of laws to empty Piazza Navona of stall holders and artists, whether they have a permit to be there or not.
Piazza Navona i...
Top businesses are moving out of the capital to places like Milan, Parma, Caserta even as far as Bangalore and other cities around the world. Companies in the telecoms, food, banking, insurance, and IT sectors are packi...
The life of domestic animals in the city of Rome should be revolutionised by the introduction of numerous new animal-protection rules passed by the city council. These forbid the use of electric or strangler collars and...
In an effort to curb tourist coaches laying siege to Romes historic centre, deputy mayor Mariapia Garavaglia has announced new parking rules to apply as of January 2006. Extending the rules in force for Jubilee 2000, the...
Protests have broken out in several Italian cities against the governments university reform package, being voted on in the chamber of deputies on Tuesday. In Rome it is estimated that over 50,000 students and professors...
The readers of the American magazine Travel and Leisure have voted Rome Best European capital city for 2005 for the quantity and quality of the cultural sites on offer. It is the second time that the American publicatio...
The Rome and Lazio economy may be running well compared to the rest of Italy, but CNA, the confederation of artisan and small and medium businesses fear that it is beginning to slow. At their annual provincial conference...
A new low-cost airline, Blu-express a part of Blue Panorama airlines, will begin operations out of Romes Fiumicino airport on 21 November with two flights daily to Bari and three flights daily to Milan Malpensa. From...
Yet more changes to the Italian laws regarding the use of motorcycles and the fines for traffic offences have been passed through the Italian senate. From the 1 January 2007 14-year-olds will no longer be allowed to driv...
Since the end of conscription in January this year, there has been fewer young people signing up for community service, once the official alternative to military service. Now a national civil voluntary service has been s...
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