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 - “In so many ways Mussolini did well, but instating the racial laws was his worst mistake” declared Silvio Berlusconi on Holocaust Remembrance day.

FLORENCE - During a large part of the middle ages, the gold coin of Florence, the Florin, was the major European currency.

ROME -In 1978 when Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, the prisoner’s voice desperately cried out to be heard --  nobody listened.

ROME - Pier Paolo Pasolini was a essentially a poet, a film director and a journalist. To Italy, he was a scandalous figure.

Italian lawyer Giandomenico De Tullio  presents the legal ins and outs of investing in off-plan properties in Italy.

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

ROME - Italy’s flagship airline is flagging, with rumours of an Air France takeover causing uproar from Italian politicians.

VERONA - In July 2005, I argued that the Italian government should cut the cash it hands out to Italian Universities - Mario Monti’s government did just that.

 TRIESTE – To understand the roots of left-wing and right-wing terrorism, one might very well start from the three regions of the Triveneto -- Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto and Trentino Alto Adige

 AGRIGENTO, Sicily -- They call them the “Patriarchs of the Valley of the Temples.” The trunks twist, suspended between sky and earth, expressing pain and suffering from the night of time.

ROME-- This week two young men arrived at Ciampino Airport, the only passengers on a special government flight.

ROME—Mario Monti, the Italian Prime Minister, handed in his resignation to President Giorgio Napolitano Friday, at the end of a “difficult but fascinating 13 months,” in office.

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

 NEMI --A botched bid by a tomb robber to smuggle a statue from Italy has renewed interest in the long-neglected Temple of Diana on the shores of Lake Nemi