ROME -- The recent works of young New York born painter Rachel Rose are on show in the crypt of the Venerable English College this week.

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 ROME – Next week-end’s election of a new Director General for the U.N.

ROME- As of June 23, Czech Airlines will offer scheduled flights from Bratislava to Rome.

HELSINKI --The sauna diplomacy practised by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland received this year's Löylynhenki Prize (Steam Spirit Prize) granted by the Finnish Sauna Society on Monday, 1

KABUL - Shortly before Afghan president Hamid Karzai arrived in Italy for the obligatory handshake photo ops with Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in honour of Italy’s 150^th  bir

 CANBERRA – The U.N. World Food Programme  has announced the appointment of Jessica Watson as youth representative to support the organisation in the global fight against hunger.

 ROME -- Umberto Bossi is no Dorian Gray but somewhere in his attic, he has a locked cupboard.

BUDAPEST — An increasing number of Europeans are said to enjoy their holidays: 68% of EU citizens travelled for private reasons in 2010 compared to 65% in 2009.

ROME — Dark horse Indonesia's candidate to run the U.N.

ROME — The British daily The Guardian has quoted witnesses accusing Italy and NATO of letting 61 migrants die at sea after setting off from Tripoli on March 25.

Ebenezer Scrooge thought that any festivities were humbug, particularly Christmas and anything else which might stop him making money and which disrupted his normal way of life.

ROME - Shortly after new year celebrations in Afghanistan and with most of the world’s attention shifted to Libya, a seminar was recently held in the Canadian embassy i

WASHINGTON — After ignoring North Africa for decades, the United States has to play catch up, and as newspapers and networks have covered events in Tunisia, Egypt and n