ROME -- If the United States goes bankrupt this afternoon, when will they hold the garage sale?

 ROME -- It must be a sign that the economy is improving if the British Prime Minister thinks it’s safe to take his family on a two-week holiday in a luxury Tuscan villa, even though they travel on

NAPLES, FLORIDA --  “Only the good die young.”- Billy Joel. Just back from Rome at my house in Florida, in the woods, thoughts and visions of Caravaggio were still fresh in my head.  At an imprompt

 TORONTO--Talking about a winning atheist debate held last Christmas might be considered bad timing or taste, considering the time of year.

ROME -- There’s talk of David Cameron having to step down and of course the chorus of calls for Silvio Berlusconi to resign is rising.

 ROME -- This majestic study, based on intrepid travels through a swathe of strife-torn countries from Nigeria and Somalia to Indonesia and the Philippines, provides an extraordinary close-up pictu

ROME – -  Intermittent coverage has been given to Bahrain’s panicked crackdown on protests since they began on February, with the list of outrages growing ever longer: doctors charged and sentenced

 MOUNT GAMBIER, Australia -- AFTER 55 years in Australia, my father Giovanni Prosperi-Porta has no desire to return to his home country, Italy.

  BELGRADE -- When I first decided to change my name to Novak Djokovic, it was suggested to me that I had done so out of sense of brotherly fellowship: that, in a sense, we were all Novak Djokovic;

ROME -- Holiday didn't go as planned? Flight cancelled? Lost luggage?

ROME -- Military bands from Great Britain, Turkey, Finland and Italy will attend the only Italian military tattoo, from July 5 through 9, 2011 in the City of Modena.

ROME -- A new gallery celebrated its inauguration Thursday night showcasing six Expatriate artists.

ROME -- A trap for successful writers of genre fiction is to produce quickly to satisfy readers’ interest.

ROME -- The appeal of convicted murderers Amanda Knox and Rafaelle Sollecito took a significant turn this week when appointed experts said in a 145 page report that the evidence was unreliable.

 ROME -- The recent works of young New York born painter Rachel Rose are on show in the crypt of the Venerable English College this week.

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 ROME – Next week-end’s election of a new Director General for the U.N.