ROME -Kuwait is committed to using its financial punch to help Italy exit recession, endorsing “important” Italian diplomatic efforts for mideast peace, says the Kuwaiti Ambassador Sheikh Ali Al-Khaled Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.
Elisa Filarmonico
VATICAN CITY - The Holy See has unveiled the new St Peter’s Cricket Club’s forthcoming “Light of Faith” tour which will climax in an unprecedented Twenty20 ecumenical charity match with an Anglican XI.
A Vatican committee revealed the Global Freedom Network as their chosen charity and the reasons behind this newly founded initiative.
23 Jun 2014
MARGARET STENHOUSE
SANT'ORESTE-For over 50 years, the vast bunker in the heart of Mt Soratte was a well-kept secret- Few people knew of its strategic role in the last World War and, later, during the uneasy years of the Cold War.
29 May 2014
asia guerreschi
ROME-The arrival of St.Stephen’s new Head Eric Mayer in the school’s 50th anniversary year has filled the institution with “magnetic charm and charisma,” says the school newspaper The Cortile.
16 May 2014
JAN FILIPOWICZ
ROME –Despite the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation being five months into the new year, many units still have no idea what their budget is, FAO sources say.
“The official budget was approved by the FAO conference in June 2013, but by all accounts this was complete fiction, cooked up but based on real numbers,” an FAO veteran senior manager told Italian Insider.
14 May 2014
Alexie Valois
VENICE-A masterpiece in man's history, the ancient four gilt-bronze horses of St Mark’s Basilica are the only ones to have survived after long and perilous journeys. With the aid of young French patrons, they have been renovated. This is the first time they can be admired in their full splendour.
12 May 2014
MIKE DILIEN
ROME-Pier Paolo Pasolini treated the Eternal City extensively in poetry, prose and cinematography- Rome had a profound impact on both the man and his art. In an interview Pasolini once confessed: ‘I owe Rome a lot.’ After Barcelona and Paris, Rome now hosts the internationally-acclaimed exhibition “Pasolini Roma.”
In fact, his relationship to Rome was one of give-and-take. Like Lisbon and Pessoa and Dublin and Joyce, Rome now owes Pasolini as much as he owed Rome. Which tourist would visit the Pigneto if not for Italy’s poète maudit?
9 May 2014
JAN FILIPOWICZ
ROME – UN food agencies strongly deny Italian media reports that staff are being investigated for exploiting under-age call girls -but judicial sources identified at least one U.N. staffer whose office cellphone was used to contact a network of girls as young as age 14 based in the posh Parioli district of Rome, and said at least three others are being investigated.
29 Apr 2014
ANDREW GARGANO
ROME - Italy is often dubbed the ultimate paradox- A spectacular landscape, more than a fair share of sun, sand, sea, mountains, islands, volcanoes, rich natural produce, fantastic food and wine, history and architecture. Warm, friendly people whose concern for family values, quality of life and long lasting friendships puts many Western cultures to shame.
29 Apr 2014