ROME - Rome provides unlikely images and stories which have delighted travellers and resident observers for centuries -In his “Roma” (1972), Fellini was more the poet than the documentarist but he surely would delight in the juxtaposition of tourist tat on sale near the Vatican today; of another famous son of Fellini's Romagna with rather more sacred images.

 

 

The diverse group met at the sixth annual international EnergyThink conference at the University of Bologna on Wednesday. The conference, "Green Chemistry, a first step towards bioeconomy", was promoted by Eni, a leading oil producer, and the environmental organisation Legambiente. 

 

ROME - “Slow tourism” is an increasingly popular way of travelling with attention to detail, and the relationship between this type of tourism and psychological and physical welfare was recently reviewed at a panel discussion in Rome.

 

LONDON- Most financial advisers say that annuities are "failing consumers" and the nation's lack of faith in them will see more and more people turn to alternative "drawdown" income to fund their retirement. After years of retirees being offered miserly returns on their pensions by annuity providers, a survey of almost 700 financial advisers has revealed they too have grown disillusioned with the retirement products.