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Money gained from prostitution is not income, but a form of damages or compensation to women, who suffer because they have to sell themselves. This was the opinion handed down in mid January by the Italian tax commission...
Romes first consignment of new methane buses will begin servicing some of the citys most polluted routes in February. Rome city bus company Atac expects to put around 30 new buses on the road each month until July, when...
The unique blend of the comic, the dramatic and the tragic, the rapidity of the action and music, the sublimeness and variety of that music, allied to the absolute fascination of the protagonist for both men and women, m...
The collection of Christmas trees has been extended by popular demand until 22 January. Old trees can be deposited at six ecological islands organised by the environment agency AMA at 7.00-13.00 and 14.00-18.30 on weekda...
The first edition of the newspaper entitled Metropoli, aimed at Italys multi-ethnic society was launched on Sunday. Published in conjunction with the Italian daily La Repubblica, the paper says that it intends to target...
Figures released by the civil courts in Rome show that fewer Roman couples turned to international adoption last year. With just 158 cases of international adoption in the first 9 months of 2005 the final total is expect...
Romes fraternity of skateboarders and roller-bladers will soon be able to grind, flip and olly to their hearts content. When complete the new Skatepark-Flaminio-Roma will be the largest of its kind in Europe featuring a...
The alternate number plate rule for traffic in Romes green zone (most of the city within the Gran Raccordo Anulare (GRA)) returns on Thursdays from 19 January for ten weeks until 23 March. Cars with even-numbered plates...
In the thesaurus of English words and phrases matter = material, substance, stuff, brute matter, rough raw materials, unpolished, physical nature, stocks and stones. To the acute observer of post world war two art, its s...
Walking up the stairs of the slightly dilapidated S. Eusebio church on the corner of Piazza Vittorio it is clear that this will be nothing like a regular mass. Highly uniformed members of the Corazzieri and Forestali cor...
A new scheme involving marital courses for couples planning to tie the knot in a civil wedding kicks off on 17 January. The first 100 places for the initial round of courses have already been filled, and family councillo...
Italys new banking and investment laws, passed on 23 December 2005, have given the banking antitrust authority new powers to ensure competition and fair-play in private banking. The president of the antitrust organisatio...
The new governor of the Bank of Italy, Mario Draghi, took up his appointment on 16 January. Draghi, 58 years old, graduated from Romes La Sapienza university and took a PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Te...
A key discovery for archaeologists, historians, the Jewish community and the whole of Rome: a marble tombstone measuring 60 cm by 30 cm, complete with legible Hebrew inscriptions, has been found at the bottom of the Tibe...
The regional railways catalogue of delays, dirty carriages and cancellations in Lazio in 2005 could cost them 800,000 in fines according to a report in Italian daily La Repubblica. It will be the first time that the comp...
A digital revolution is set to clear the 250,000 appeals against fines brought every year by people living in Rome, some 80 per cent of which involve traffic offences. In this way, the council hopes to clear its backlog...
Every year the parish priest of the church of S. Eusebio al Esquilino celebrates a special mass for the feast day of St Antony Abbot, which falls on 17 January. This year the mass will be held on Sunday 15 January at 10....
Since smoking was banned in all public places and work places in Italy more than half a million Italians have given up smoking, according to figures from ISTAT, the Italian national statistics institute, and 21,9 per cen...
The number of organ transplants in Lazio in 2006 increased by 25 per cent compared to 2005 figures. Last year doctors in the region carried out a total of 298 transplants (up from 239 the previous year) including 163 kid...
A month before the opening of the Winter Olympic games in Turin, Italys top woman downhill skier, Isolde Kostner, has announced that she is pregnant and will not be taking part in the games, saying that she is happier at...
European health ministers agreed to step up measures to contain the spread of the H5NO virus, better known as bird flu, in Europe following news of the third human fatality in Turkey and confirmation by the World Health...
More than 5,000 elderly people in Rome now have a helping hand thanks to a system of telephone assistance known as “Non pi soli” (No longer alone). The service, which is run by Farmacap, the company that runs...
The city of Rome has a free SMS information service. To obtain the city news, register by sending the word ROMA, via SMS to tel. 3202043348, then choose the type of information you wish from four categories, traffic, new...
Antonio Cassano, the 23-year-old striker from Bari in Puglia, has been bought by
Real Madrid on a four and a half year contract in a transfer deal worth 5 million euros to his last employers, the famous "Roma" team. The...
Rome has once again got live examples of its symbol, the wolf, six years after the last live wolf in the city died from old age. Not just one wolf but five wolves have been adopted by the Biopark (the new name for Rome z...
Romes first festival of science will be held at the Auditorium- Parco della Musica from 16-20 January. Sconfinatamente will explore the mysteries of the human mind in debates, exhibitions, lectures, films and theatre. It...
Only months before the next general election the Italian minister for health, Francesco Storace, has said that Italys mental health laws need revising. The controversial law, which was passed in 1978, brought about the c...
The Rome city prefect, Achille Serra , has ordered that the first important Roma football match of 2006, a return match between Rome and Naples in the Coppa Italia championship to be played at the Stadio Olimpico on 11...
Some 10 million ballot papers in the 9 April Italian general election will be submitted electronically following a recent government decree legalising e-voting in up to five unspecified Italian regions. The system, teste...
On the same day that two Indian immigrants died from the cold because they were sleeping in the open, Saverio Iacobucci the coordinator of the reception day centre Un Sorriso has announced that the centre has closed bec...
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