ROME - After the head of the Camillian Order was arrested in Rome this month on kidnapping charges, a deeper scheme of alleged corruption became exposed, revealing corrupt construction contracts and risky investments in the crime-infested Campania region.
MIRA BUDAFOKI
ROME - The Eternal City was in movie fervour these past days -Scarlett Johansson ruled with Hunger Games superstars as popcorn-snacking film buffs occupied the Auditorium.
The final screening at the Rome International Film Festival turned the fame of the event upside down for the last day. The artistic innovations of Hark Tsui, the Chinese director of The Rise of the Sea Dragon, literally turned the screen upside down as the actors leapt off walls and onto ceilings during the film’s fight scenes.
19 Nov 2013
Gianfranco Nitti
ROME - The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has announced that, after three weeks of voting online, participants have chosen to restore Perugino's Madonna with Child as the first phase of the Art Helps the Art project.
The initiative, sponsored by the Directorate General for the Promotion of Cultural Heritage, allocates the proceeds of entrance tickets for One Saturday at the Museum to the restoration of a work of art chosen by users on the Mibact website.
19 Nov 2013
ABDELKADER CHEREF
NEW YORK -- None of the participants at the African Conference of Solidarity with the Saharawi people, held in Nigeria last month, expected that the gathering would reactivate the long-festering conflict between Morocco, which annexed Western Sahara decades ago, and Algeria, which supports the independence-seeking Polisario Front – yet it certainly heightened tensions.
19 Nov 2013
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME - The wines of Verona successfully raised funds at a benefit dinner in Hong Kong for Emergency International, an Italian NGO which works on global health projects.
The Italian wines were featured at the event, "Arena di Verona: 100 Years of Opera", this past October and several wine bottles, signed by famous musicians, artists, and sports legends, were auctioned off to benefit the organisation.
18 Nov 2013
Cornelius Sullivan
NAPLES, FLORIDA-Obamacare is based on redistribing wealth, Mother Teresa's care on Christian charity -the two ideals are not intrinsically antithetical but in practice are as radically different as mandatory is from voluntary.
The physical care of the sick and "the poorest of the poor" by Mother Teresa involves physical care and also what may be her greatest gift, the recognition of the dignity of the individual person created in the image and likeness of God. To the dying, she brought death with dignity.
15 Nov 2013
ANDREW GARGANO
ROME - A British World War II veteran has helped musician Roger Waters locate the exact place where his father died in battle during a 1944 German attack on Allied forces in Anzio, Italy.
The Pink Floyd bassist and songwriter was only five months old when his father, Lieutenant Eric Fletcher Waters, was killed while serving in World War II. The internal struggles Roger Waters faced as he grew up without a father inspired him to write several of the psychedelic rock band's best-known songs.
14 Nov 2013
DAVID PETRIE
Dear Mr Letta-This month I testify to the European Parliament Petitions Committee and meet UK Europe Minister David Lidington in London. I write to you as chairman of the Association of Foreign Lecturers in Italy (www.allsi.org), a trade union formed in 1997 under the slogan "equal citizens, equal rights, equal treatment."
13 Nov 2013
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME -- The population of immigrants in Italy has grown to nearly 5.2 million people, which has benefited the Italian economy with 1.4 billion euros, according to the 2013 Immigration Statistics Dossier.
The latest report on immigration statistics was presented before the Minister of Integration Cécile Kyenge in Rome on Wednesday. It found that Italy is now home to 5,186,000 immigrants, a significant increase from nearly 4 million in 2007.
13 Nov 2013