ROME-- The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) signed in Rome a €600 million loan for rebuilding industrial infrastructure in areas hit by the earthquake in Emilia-Romagna one year ago.
ROME—Rome city council, where controversial Mayor Gianni Alemanno is running for re-election at the end of this week, seems to be having difficulty paying its suppliers.
ROME-- A cultural melting-pot of the east, Izmir has been the inspiration for poets, the desire of conquering empires and the final settlement for some of history’s most iconic figures. Called “Beautiful Izmir”, it is considered the pearl of the Aegean and is currently a strong contender for the 2020 world expo.
ROME-Rafael Nadal won his lucky seventh trophy at the Rome Masters Sunday, crushing Roger Federer 6-1, 6-3 as Serena Williams picked up her second at Foro Italico after 11 years with both players h
ROME—The funeral of Giulio Andreotti, a personification of political intrigue in Cold War Italy and one of the most influential politicians of his generation, marked the definitive closure of the Christian Democrat epoch.
ROME-- Sapienza University in Rome has agreed to start a cultural cooperation with Istanbul’s Bahçeşehir University after talks began earlier this year.
ROME– A gunman fired shots at Palazzo Chigi, the office of Prime Minister Enrico Letta, Sunday, wounding two Carabinieri paramilitary police and a passer by as Italy's new Government was sworn in.
ROME- Cinema America in the tourist-packed and commercial Trastevere has been occupied by students, locals, social activists, and civic associations, after being abandoned for 15 years.
ROME – The new governing council of Rome’s Foreign press club in Humility Street is “deadlocked” over plans to re-design its website that sadly often has little information about key events, club
ROME -- Pro cycling returned to Rome's streets this spring, with a race that gained worldwide attention and whetted appetites ahead of the classics season.
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis appealed for peace in the Middle East, Africa and the Koreas in his first Easter Urbi et Orbi Easter Sunday address in St. Peter's Square.
ROME -- Pope Francis celebrated his first Way of the Cross ceremony for Easter Friday as pontiff at the Colosseum this evening, watched by thousands of the faithful.
ROME – Italy’s august Foreign Press Association is set to disappear unless it re-discovers its lost sense of solidarity, a candidate for the club presidency says.
ROME - In order not to “host events with political implications”, the director of Rome’s modern art gallery the Maxxi, has cancelled screening a controversial film.
ROME - Laila Sumpton, current poet in residence at the Keats-Shelley House and British Council will be giving three special public workshops on creative writing at the Keats-Shelley House, Rome on
ROME -- The opening of the exhibition "Camminando" by Claire Chevrier at the French Academy will include a discussion on photography with Ms Chevrier, Yto Barrada, and Marie Muracciole and moderate
ROME -The Museum of Contemporary Art Rome (MACRO) will host a talk with German conceptualist Olaf Nicolai for the "A History" project on Friday June 22 at 6:30pm.
ROME -- As the world belatedly turns its attention to the pressing issues of environmental degradation, resource scarcity and climate change, the concept of sustainability takes its rightful place
