Gianni Alemanno is keeping his law-and-order promises, sweeping prostitutes off streets, arming traffic cops and pushing for immigrants who commit crimes to be deported.
Obviously, there were no satellites to snap pictures of Rome two millennia ago. But that hasn't stopped experts from giving Web surfers a bird's eye view of the ancient city.
A U.N.-backed movie on poverty made of eight segments by directors including Jane Campion and Wim Wenders will make its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival later this year, organizers said Wednesday.
Interior decorator Christopher Lowell is famous for his television shows, “It’s Christopher Lowell!,” “Interior Motives” and the “Christopher Lowell Show,” even winning a Daytime Emmy for the latter program. But he’s also appeared on “The Hollywood Squares” and he’s a national brand, with a line of office products at Office Depot and partnerships with Jo-Ann Stores and 3 Day Blinds. Lowell also has written several best-selling books and designed a hotel in Manhattan Beach, Calif. What hasn’t he done? Stopped saying “You can do it!” to anyone who’s listening and stopped jet-setting all over the world to spread his design tips and great sense of humor. We spoke to him recently about his travels.
Folk singer Suzanne Vega struck gold in the 1980s with hits “Tom’s Diner,” “Left of Center,” and the ubiquitous radio hit, “Luka,” which was one of the first popular songs to tackle the subject of child abuse. Vega is still making quality, critically acclaimed albums, such as her latest, "Beauty & Crime", which she has described as a love letter to her hometown of New York City. We caught up with her on her cell phone recently while navigating the United States on yet another tour and talked travel.
An airport will be built near Viterbo, a steadily growing bedroom community 62 miles north of Rome, giving the area around the Italian capital a third site for commercial flights, authorities said Monday.
Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled an underground grotto believed to have been revered by ancient Romans as the place where a wolf nursed the city's legendary founder Romulus and his twin brother Remus.
"Juno," a movie about a Minnesota teen faced with an unplanned pregnancy, won the best film award at the Rome Film Festival.
The Rome Film Festival opened its second edition Thursday, harkening back to the Eternal City's 1960s cinematic heyday.
Work on Rome's Palatine Hill has turned up a trove of discoveries, including what might be the underground grotto where ancient Romans believed a wolf nursed the city's legendary founders Romulus and Remus.
Nicole Kidman launches her movie "Fur" — based loosely on the life of photographer Diane Arbus — at the inaugural Rome Film Festival, which opens Friday.
Rafael Nadal still has the edge against Roger Federer. The gap is closing, though.
Buddhist spiritual leader is comforted in Tibet's search for autonomy. Beijing threatens actions that might affect its good relations with Italy. Today the Dalai Lama becomes honorary citizen of Venice.
I wish that I had written something this good. A cautionary tale indeed.
Germany's four-year love affair with its own Bavarian-born Pope was in tatters yesterday after Chancellor Angela Merkel accused the pontiff of giving the impression that Holocaust denial was "permissible" through his decision to pardon the British-born bishop, Richard Williamson.
When Egypt became part of the Roman Empire, the cult of cat-headed goddess Bastet crossed the Mediterranean. Its worship became so popular, overshadowing the reverence of the emperor, that eventually an imperial decree banned all cats. But some survived.
A top haute couture designer in Rome showed off a kaftan emblazoned with U.S. President Barack Obama's face and another dedicated a gown of "hope" to his wife Michelle.
Italian police have arrested three young men for allegedly beating and setting on fire an Indian immigrant who was sleeping on a train station bench in a seaside town near Rome, investigators said Monday.
A top haute couture designer in Rome showed off a kaftan emblazoned with U.S. President Barack Obama's face and another dedicated a gown of "hope" to his wife Michelle.
HAS the grand Roman Pantheon been keeping a secret for nearly 2000 years? An expert in ancient timekeeping thinks so, arguing that it acts as a colossal sundial.
Italy could increase by ten-fold the estimated 3,000 troops patrolling major cities and sensitive areas across the country since August, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Saturday.
The Israeli "reprisals death ratio" in the current Gaza Massacre (1,220 Gazans killed versus ZERO Israelis killed by Gaza rockets in the previous year) is 1,220/0 = INFINITY, the same as for the 1967 Israeli USS Liberty Massacre.
Vital evidence has been discovered which could prove Colchester was a major settlement more than 2,000 years ago.
Forsyth, Georgia – Inspiration Scripture Today – "This letter is from Paul, Jesus Christ's slave, chosen by God to be an apostle and sent out to preach his Good News. This Good News was promised long ago by God through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures.
For those schooled in the Punic Wars and Cato The Elder, you will know what my title means. For others not so enlightened, I will elaborate.
David Beckham is set to make his Serie A bow for AC Milan at AS Roma on Sunday night - but most likely from the bench rather than the starting line-up.
Gladiators are to return to Rome's most famous fight arena almost 2,000 years after their bloody sport last entertained Roman crowds, local authorities announced.
Mass demonstrations are being held around the world in protest at Israel's military offensive against Hamas, as the campaign enters its second week.
VATICAN CITY (AFP) - - A suggestion by Pope Benedict XVI that homosexuality is as much of a threat to the survival of the human race as climate change sparked outrage among gay rights campaigners on Tuesday.
MARCELLUS and his men blockaded Syracuse, in Sicily, for two years. The Roman general expected to conquer the Greek city state easily, but the ingenious siege towers and catapults designed by Archimedes helped to keep his troops at bay.
I went to a protest in Rome, Italy November 29th 2008. The police presence was slight, although the starting point of the protest in the Piazza Della Republica had a few polizia paddywagons in case the peaceful protest turned violent.
This woman was amazing. I only recently became familiar with Boudicca and learned how she defended Britain and the Celtic way of life there. See the seeded link to learn more about her.
Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus born 27 February 272 was the undisputed Roman Emperor from 306 to 324 to his death. He was the first Christian Emperor and in fact had a great deal to do with how the Christian religion was organized and its initial ceremonies.
Pirates chased and shot at a U.S. cruise liner with more than 1,000 people on board but failed to hijack the vessel as it sailed along a corridor patrolled by international warships, a maritime official said Tuesday.
Representatives of more than 100 governments will gather in Rome on Monday to discuss a boost in measures for nearly 30 species threatened by pollution, climate change and over-hunting.
More than once, the adjective that has been deployed to describe Obama's oratorical skill is "Ciceronian". Cicero, the outstanding Roman politician of the late republic, was certainly the greatest orator of his time, and one of the greatest in history.
Two thousand years ago, the world was ruled by Rome. From England to Africa and from Syria to Spain, one in every four people on earth lived and died under Roman law.