ROME–Prime Minister Enrico Letta faces mounting pressure over discrimination against UK lecturers working in Italian universities with a question tabled in the House of Commons on the pay cuts.
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
KABUL – Border disputes with Pakistan and Iranian meddling in the country’s internal affairs have recently shifted the focus of Afghans' criticism closer to home.
ROME--As a young reporter in Lebanon, Richard Beeston faced down an execution squad and at one point found himself given honourary command of a company of Muslim militiamen.
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-- The English Theatre in Rome was at full capacity this week for Gaby Ford’s performance of ‘A Broad Abroad’. Directed by Dyanne White and written by Ford, the performance is a montage of her real-life experiences: ‘in the pursuit of sanity, four continents are travelled’.
BEIRUT – Domenico Quirico, the Italian reporter missing in Syria for more than a month, is presumed to be “in Syrian Government captivity,” diplomatic sources said Friday.
ROME-- Sapienza University in Rome has agreed to start a cultural cooperation with Istanbul’s Bahçeşehir University after talks began earlier this year.
ROME--‘Slow Food Story’, a film by director Stefano Sardo previewed in Italy this week at the Cinema delle Quattro Fontane. Telling the story of a cultural and gastronomical revolution, the film is a documentary charting the biography of the Slow Food movement’s founder Carlo Petrini as he sets out to fight against consumerist globalisation.
ROME – UKIP leader Nigel Farage took a swipe at Italian maverick Beppe Grillo today, saying the comic does not “have a real platform” unlike the British party.
ROME — Luci sull’Est (Light on the East), an Italian association of Catholic inspiration, has announced the completion on the site of a huge former Soviet Gulag of the
Rome –The painters Botticelli and Raphael set the measure of female beauty during the Italian Renaissance and influenced western art for centuries to come.
ROME– Just after the closure of the successful Caravaggio exhibition held at the Scuderie del Quirinale that celebrated the 400th anniversary of the artist’s death, Rom
ROME– Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak - a man who once served as the country’s air force commander and who just a few weeks ago was publicly announcing he was ‘’a military man who had served this country dur
MILAN — A Milan judge on Tuesday ordered Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stand trial April 6 on charges of using an under age prostitute and abuse of office.
ROME– Hundreds of thousands of women, and some men, took to the streets of the capital and other cities last week-end demanding the resignation of the Italian Prime Min
ROME– Prisons have been opened, the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities damaged, the internet shut down, curfews imposed, and government buildings and police stations burned
ROME- It’s not often that you get the opportunity to watch Julius Caesar in the Eternal City itself and so I jumped at the chance to observe, as a plebeian, the violent
ROME-Green economists from the U.K and Italy have met together for a one day seminar to discuss the challenges and solutions facing both countries in their efforts to build a sustainable future.
ROME — The revolutionary new labour contract engineered by Sergio Marchionne, CEO of the Fiat Group, passed with a narrow majority of just over 400 votes, most of them
ROME — When Silvio Berlusconi recently commented it was “better to be passionate about beautiful women than to be gay” many interpreted it as a dig at his rising political rival.