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About 4,000 people die annually in Italy of air pollution related complications, according latest findings in a study by the Italian National Cancer Research Institute of Genoa.
The research carried out from 1996-2002 c...
The 2005 edition of the six nations rugby championship begins again in early February. Italy will be playing three matches at home in Rome at the Stadio Flaminio starting with the first match on Sunday 6 February against...
Thursday 20 January vehicles with licence plates ending in an odd number will not be able circulate in the fascia verde in Rome. This is the second Thursday when private traffic on the city roads in the "green zone", wil...
Closure of museums and archaeological sites, including the Colosseum, the Forum, the Baths of Caracalla, Palazzo Massimo and the Baths of Diocletian, is threatened on Thursday morning 20 January, while employees of the m...
When a new law on assisted reproduction for infertile couples passed through the Italian parliament in February 2004 it was fiercely opposed by left-wing politicians for being illiberal and anti- feminist. In the hope of...
Reconciliation will be among the key themes during the annual week of prayer for Christian Unity from 18-25 January.
Prof Louis Weil will discuss the issue at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Via XX Settembre 7 on Thu...
Rome has a new superintendent for archaeology. After 28 years in this prestigious and often difficult position at the ministry of culture and fine arts, Adriano La Regina has been replaced by his colleague Angelo Bottini...
" Hes the Berlusconi of Thailand," quipped Geoffrey, an elderly British resident of Bangkok, comparing the Thai prime minister to his counterpart in Italy, Silvio Berlusconi.
"Youve got to love or hate the Thaksin and a...
Cars and motorcycles will be banned from Romes streets on Sunday 16 January from 10.00 18.00 in a further attempt to cut pollution, which has reached dangerous levels in the city.
The Sunday ban follows eleven days of...
The annual church service for the blessing of domestic animals will take place on Sunday 16 January in the church of S. Eusebio at Piazza Vittorio at 10.00. Everyone invited to take their pets along to the service and th...
Railway workers, responsible for safety on Italian rail tracks, are asking all railway workers to join them in a 24 hour strike from 21.00 on Sunday 16 January until the same time on Monday 17 January to protest at cost-...
The new term at Cinecitt Campus in Rome, starts on 17 January. This academy for young people who aspire to work in show business has created considerable interest in the six months that it has been open, according to its...
An 18th century edicola or small shrine, il Tempietto del Carmelo, in the Ghetto area of Rome has been restored to its former splendour.
The shrine was originally built by a grocer in 1759 and attached to his house. It...
At the opening of the judicial year Italy's chief prosecutor, Francesco Favera, stated that 81 per cent of all reported crimes had gone unpunished in the first half of 2004. He also announced that there are currently nin...
This small paradise island 40 minutes by boat off the sheltered coastline of eastern Thailand in the lagoon-like Gulf of Thailand, is doomed for the same fate as the island of Phuket, wildly popular before it was struck...
Romes mayor, Walter Veltroni, has put the city councils information switchboard at the disposal of several organisations who arrange adoption at a distance, a system whereby individuals or groups can commit themselves...
I just wanted to do something useful, says Evelyne De Crescenzo, explaining her decision to sponsor eight-year-old Fiorella in Peru. Fiorella lives with her parents and four brothers and sisters but her family cannot aff...
Now that smoking has been banned from restaurants and bars, Italy has become one of the most radical of the European Union countries, in terms of no smoking. Only Italy and Ireland do not allow smoking in all public plac...
Romes school children, teaching and non-teaching staff have been asked to contribute at least 1 a head to build at least four schools in the tsunami-devastated areas around the Indian Ocean. The citys mayor, Walter Veltr...
The entrance to Trajans Markets in Rome, normally in Via IV Novembre will be moved to Trajans Column off Piazza Venezia for the whole of January while maintenance is carried out on part of the complex. The public will on...
Both All Saints Anglican Church and S. Susanna Roman Catholic church in Rome are collecting money for the Indian Ocean disaster. Money from all the English-speaking churches will be pooled for one project, to be chosen b...
From Thursday 13 January, and on every succesive Thursday for 12 weeks, private traffic on the city roads within the GRA, the city ring road, will be restricted according to number plate as a way of cutting down smog in...
From 10 January the A line of the underground, which runs from Agnanina to the south east of the city through the centre and on to Battistini beyond the Vatican to the north west, will close every evening at 21.00, for t...
There was one survivor of the tsunami catastrophe that hit Thailand who spent 11 days doing his best to avoid rescue and in the end did not even say thank you.
The ungrateful escapee was a ten-year old humpbacked dolph...
The winter sales start officially in Rome on 8 January, but anyone walking around the city shopping centres would think that they had already begun. There are special reductions and offers in almost all shops. The city c...
From 10 January it will be illegal to smoke in public places in Italy. Restaurants and bars will only be allowed to let customers smoke in specifically defined, enclosed areas, with strictly controlled ventilation system...
Ten young Britons who had never met before spent New Years Eve in a bizarre hill-top hotel outside the safe hilly country capital of Kandy in Sri Lanka, a town that night festooned with white plastic, cut into strips, wh...
Tim, Vodaphone, Wind and H3G, the four companies controlling the cell-phone networks in Italy, have joined forces to raise money to provide aid to the disaster-struck areas in south east Asia. Cell-phone owners can make...
When the devastating tsunami hit south east Asia on 26 December the Italian department of civil protection, trained to react quickly in case of earthquake and tidal waves, was able to send emergency teams to the worst hi...
The Italian minister for Foreign affairs Gianfranco Fini, has announced that the Italian government intends to cancel the foreign debt owed to Italy by some of the disaster-struck countries around the Indian Ocean; $9,...
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