Rome

ROME -- Behind a former service station on Via Casilina, a dusty path leads to a vast prairie.

 ROME -- The Keats-Shelley House in Rome is set to mark the quartercentenary of William Shakespeare’s death with a seminar that will look at “Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare.”

 ROME -- The Rome Marriott Grand Hotel Flora was set to display an installation by Ana Soler during the Tennis International from April 27 to May 22.  The installation will be open to the public wi

 ROME -- Piazza Venezia is not only the very heart of Rome, it is also the very centre of Italy.

Alice Pasquini spray-paints the walls of Rome

By Christina Höfferer and Florence Brock

 Rome -- Italy’s most abrasive radio show host narrowly missed coming to blows with animal rights activists angry at the country’s slaughter of spring lambs for traditional Easter lunches, and at G

ROME -- English Theatre of Rome's all-female Hamlet directed by Douglas Dea

 VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican have confirmed that they are launching an investigation into the alleged use of funds from the children’s hospital Bambino Gesù to finance the reconstruction of a luxur

 ROME -- The crack in the centre-right parties over the Rome mayorial race has widened with sexist comments made by Silvio Berlusconi and Guido Bertolaso about pregnant former minister Giorgia Melo

 ROME -- A planned terrorist assassination attempt in Rome has been stopped, with the arrest of a 22 year old Somali Imam in Molise on Wednesday, police said.  “We have precise technical confirmati

 ROME -- “We wanted to kill someone to see what effect it had,” the words of Mauel Foffo after the murder of 23-year-old Luca Varani, along with accomplice Marco Prato, as he confessed to prosecuto

 ROME -- When I agreed to visit the Spirit of Scotland: Rome Whisky Festival I assumed I would find a group of tweed wearing, bagpipe playing, lost-looking Scots, left over from the Six Nations mat

 ROME -- To mark the fifth anniversary of the assassination of Pakistani Christian minister Shahbaz Bhatti, killed five years ago on March 2, there will be a remembrance prayers being held in the b

 ROME -- The Federation of International Civil Servants (FICSA), along with UGSS (the Union of General Service Staff of FAO and WFP), have approved two resolutions on “the alarming statu

 ROME -- Leading his team to a 36-20 win over Italy, ‘Man of the Match’ Scotland captain Greig Laidlaw thoroughly deserved his title after kicking 21 points for his team.  The strong amount of kilt