ROME - On Sunday evening the lights on the Colosseum were turned off as part of Rome’s contribution to the Day of Memory.

ROME – On Sunday night Brendan Lynch, 26, prop for Rome’s Capitolina and employee at the FAO, was killed in a motorbike accident on the Roman ring road.

ROME - The European Court of Human Rights has condemned Italy for the state of its prisons, which infringe prisoners’ human rights.

DAMASCUS – The World Food Programme (WFP) will start providing ready-to-eat food to 125,000 vulnerable Palestinians and displaced Syrians caught in fighting around Yarmouk camp in Damascus.

ROME - France’s socialist government has announced the creation of a ‘National Observatory of Secularism’ in order to closely monitor religious organisations and prevent what they have called “exce

ROME -- The European Commission is preparing infringement proceedings against Italy for discrimination against British lecturers working in Italian universities, diplomatic sources say.

ROME - Italian car giant Fiat has said it will cut 1,500 jobs in Poland to match falling demand.

ROME- The FAO Director-General says that improving food security in the Sahel will contribute to peace and stability in the region.

ROME – The Community of Sant’Egidio has secured the release of Senegalese soldiers held by the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MDFC).

 REYHANLI, TURKEY -As the Assad regime continues to conduct air strikes on rebel-held medical facilities, Syrian doctors across the border are hindered by government and banking regulations. 

ROME- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is gearing up to face the traditional “hunger season” in southern Africa, made worse by recent droughts.

ROME - FAO’s top American, Ann Tutwiler, has been sidelined to a Geneva liason job as Director General José Graziano da Silva consolidates his grip on the famine-fighting agency, UN sources say.

ROME - Nine Somalians were found guilty of piracy and given prison sentences by an Italian court.

ROME- Italy’s real GDP growth is to fall further in 2013, the OECD has forecast.

 ROME - The work of Elisabetta Valgiusti, a documentary on Egypt’s Copt Christians, has been shown to an intimate audience at the Chamber of the Deputies.

ROME - The British Ambassador to Italy, Christopher Prentice, condemned sexual violence of women in an article which appeared in L'Espresso.

ROMA OSTIENSE – As the train slowly entered the station, I spotted laundry at the end of a platform. Are they back? Would he be among them?