The Gingrichs' Roman Holiday
If media reports are right, Callista Gingrich will soon be U.S. ambassador to the Holy See-and face the daunting task of living in the Eternal City. We understand that you are in the final phases of...
View ArticleNew Interest in Italian Dialects.
All of Italy is seeing a renewed interest in dialects, a revival linked to a national - and greater European - identity crisis. "It's a matter of territorial belonging," says Andrea Maniero, a...
View ArticlePope urges scientists - never to fear truth'
Father Emmanuel Carreira operates the telescope at the Vatican Observatory in Castelgandolfo, south of Rome, Italy, on June 23, 2005. The Vatican Observatory, one of the world's oldest astronomical...
View ArticleCharles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
He was the eldest son and heir of King John of Bohemia, who died at the Battle of Crcy on 26 August 1346. Charles inherited the County of Luxembourg and the Kingdom of Bohemia from his father.
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Dancers from the Compagnie Pal Frenak and the members of the Hungarian National Ballet perform on stage of the Hungarian State Opera in Budapest on May 11, 2017 during their reharsal of "The Wooden...
View ArticleSoulful Sounds Made in Memphis Again
An original Stax Records sign hangs in the stairwell of the new Made in Memphis Entertainment facility as inspiration for artists and guests entering as they head up to the new company's main offices....
View ArticleSearch Begins for Roman Emperor's Legendary Party Ships
Italian researchers are about to reveal whether a volcanic lake in central Italy hides one of the legendary "orgy ships" of Roman Emperor Caligula. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , best known...
View ArticleItalian Court bans Kirpan
Rome [Italy], May 16 : The Supreme Court of Cassation, the highest court in Italy has banned Sikh migrants to carry kirpan in public and ruled that migrants in the western world must conform to the...
View ArticleWild boar cause man's death as they eat rubbish in Rome
Sally Yates says DOJ employees investigating potential Russian ties to Trump could fear for their jobs in wake of James Comey's sacking Ousted FBI chief James Comey claimed in write-up of dinner with...
View ArticleRussia, Italy to boost bilateral cooperation
Russia and Italy pledged to boost cooperation in various fields besides their close business ties, leaders of the two countries said Wednesday in Sochi, Russia. "We discussed in detail the whole range...
View ArticleFavelas sprout up amid neglect of Tiber
Rome, May 16 - While a political battle rages in the Italian capital between the Democratic Party and the anti-establishment M5S to remove trash littering the city's parks and streets, little attention...
View ArticleItalian Senate approves bill outlawing torture
Rome [Italy], May 17 : The Senate, the upper house of Italy's Parliament on Wednesday approved a controversial bill introducing the crime of torture with 195 votes in favour ,eight against and 34...
View ArticleCiao Italia
Mary Ann Esposito, host of the longest-running cooking show on public television, travels around the United States and Rome, Italy in search of recipes that can be prepared in thirty-minutes or less...
View ArticleFlights from US to Italy are on sale for $303 round-trip
Aeroporto di Fiumicino-Leonardo da Vinci and Aeroporto di Ciampino Each year around 15 million tourists visit Rome, Italy. And no wonder, as the city is peppered with glorious, ancient sights such as...
View ArticleUse of new swallowable gastric balloon results in substantial weight loss
New research presented at this year's European Congress on Obesity in Porto, Portugal shows that a swallowable gastic balloon - that can be inserted without endoscopy or anaesthesia - is a safe and...
View ArticleScientists look to satellites to detect, track tsunamis
Can satellites spot the beginnings of a tsunami from several thousand miles above Earth's surface? A team of researchers from Italy and the United States believe so. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion...
View ArticleDevise and Conquer
Pax Romana is a magic mirror that shows us the bloody beasts we must become to raise and rule an American empire. Few seek such a course, but it is the inevitable end of many or indeed most realistic...
View ArticleItaly: 1 000 attend march to mourn Romani children who died in arson attack
Approximately 1 000 people attended a march in Rome, Italy on Saturday, 13 May 2017 to protest the brutal arson attack near the Primavera shopping center during which three Romani sisters, two of whom...
View ArticleOur Lady of Caysasay image enshrined at Veritas Chapel
Devotees may visit and pray before a replica of the revered image of the Our Lady of Caysasay from the Archdiocesan Shrine of Our Lady of Caysasay in Taal, Batangas until May 25 at the Our Lady of...
View ArticleSania, Bopanna crash out of Italian Open
Rome [Italy], May 20 : Indian and Kazakhstan duo Sania Mirza and Yaroslava Shvedova crashed out of the Italian Open after suffering a straight-set deaf against Taiwanese and Swiss duo Yung-Jan Chan and...
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