Mario Schifano’s laboratory
ROME -- Starting Tuesday, the exhibition “Laboratory Schifano” will open at the MACRO museum, realized in collaboration with the International Film Festival in Rome. In "Laboratory Schifano" will be presented f...
Hundreds feared dead in Mexican mudslide
Hundreds of people may be killed and up to 1,000 are feared trapped under a mudslide in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, in the southern portion of the country.
Eight were confirmed dead by 3 p.m. Eastern time.
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American woman arrives in U.S. after more than a year in Iranian prison
An American woman detained in Iran arrived back to the U.S. after more than a year.
Sarah Shourd touched down in Washington D.C. early this morning from Dubai, according to Shourd's media spokeswoman, Samant...
The Coliseum will burn
ROME -- The Colosseum or the Coliseum, originally the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium, Italian Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo), is an elliptical amphitheatre in the center of the city of Rome,...
Palazzo Pitti hosts the exhibition of the way of the wine in the antiquity
ROME -- From Mesopotamia to our table today, from the rite of communion to lewd drunkenness, from a distasteful habit to the gates of spirituality, wine and the vine are the protagonists of this exhibition &quo...
Fatal fire department crashes leave Ontario town in shock
Two crashes, two days, same people.
Technology can help those affected by Pakistan flood
Ironically, many of Pakistan's displaced are suffering from dehydration during the country's biggest flood in 80 years.
China in Rome
ROME -- Chinese art has landed in Rome and risks never leaving the historical Roman palace of Palazzo Venezia.
The Beijing government will, at least for the next five years, manage an area in a Roman museum...
Italian archaeologists have not forgotten Nassiriya
ROME -- Italian archaeologists are returning to dig in Iraq, in Nassiriya, with a mission from Rome's La Sapienza University, led by Assyriologist Franco D'Agostino and by the region's Superintendent archaeolog...
UK revokes Anna Chapman’s citizenship
The British government has revoked the citizenship and passport of one of the main attractions in the US-Russia spy case.
Anna Chapman, the 28-year-old redhead who pleaded guilty in New York to procuring inf...
Medieval frescoes discovered behind wallpaper
ROME -- Behind the yellowed wallpaper in one of Rome's no longer used municipal offices, a discovery was made. What has come to light is probably a Triumphant Christ with his faithful followers Peter and Paul p...
Dungeons under the Colosseum will be open
ROME -- From August the dungeon under one of the more famous monument of the world will be open to the public. A guided tour of the famous "ipogei" which will take visitors into a fascinating jour...
Brown resigns, Cameron new British PM
Gordon Brown resigns as British PM; Cameron expects "full and proper" Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition
Vanished Rome
ROME -- This is not a time-machine but it comes close. It is called "ROMA SPARITA" and it is a group formed on Facebook dedicated to the Eternal City. The group has over 70 thousand members but the n...
Al Jazeera English launches in Canada
I woke up this morning to alerts on my cell phone, my calendar and my fridge, all saying the same thing: "Al Jazeera! Al Jazeera! Al Jazeera!"
Rome’s new Maxxi museum to open on May 30
Modern building starkly contrasts with old Rome
Al Gore will attend the Festival of Journalism in Perugia
ROME -- The International Festival of Journalism was founded in 2006 by Arianna Ciccone and Christopher Potter with the objective of discussing journalism, information, freedom of the press and democracy follow...
