Posted on 17 June 2013
Tags: blessing, harley davidson, pope francis, rome
VATICAN CITY – Thousands of Harley-Davidsons were blessed by Pope Francis I on Sunday. Bikers attended the event that marked the end of a four-day long celebration of Harley’s 110th anniversary. At the end of the blessing that saw the pontiff drive through hundreds of motorbikes parked in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis was given two [...]
Posted on 13 May 2013
Tags: eradication, fao, hunger, rome, solution
According to the United Nations the solution to put an end to world’s hunger could be eating edible insects A report from the FAO ( The Food and Agriculture Organisation) described grasshoppers, ants and other insects as food resource for people all over the world. Insects are low in fat and contain a lot of [...]
Posted on 29 May 2012
Tags: mark zuckerberg, rome
ROME – Facebook’s father, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, decided to go in Rome for their honeymoon.
Posted on 27 May 2012
Tags: butler, chaos, italy, leaks, rome, scandal, vatican
VATICAN CITY – It has been reported that an already sordid scandal over leaked Vatican documents took a Hollywood-like turn Saturday with confirmation that the pope’s own butler had been arrested after documents he had no business having were found in his Vatican City apartment. The detention of butler Paolo Gabriele, one of the few [...]
Posted on 23 May 2012
Tags: rome
ROME – Public transport tickets, the BIT, will rise on May 25 to 1.50 euro and can be used for 100 minutes. “The increase of the cost of a ticket is equal to those in all cities, Milan for example,” said Rome’s Mayor Gianni Alemanno as he called on Romans to “get season tickets.”
Posted on 19 May 2012
Tags: back injury, italian open, retirement, rome, serena williams, tennis
ROME (AP) – Serena Williams withdrew from the Italian Open with a lower back injury shortly before she was scheduled to meet Roland Garros champion Li Na in the semifinals on Saturday. Williams said the problem also affected her earlier this week. “It was feeling a little stiff and I don’t think this is the [...]
Posted on 14 May 2012
Tags: Emanuela Orlandi, enrico de pedis, mystery, rome, vatican
ROME – Vatican’s most lasting mystery might be close to a solution. It has been reported that Forensic police swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican’s most enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of the teenage [...]
Posted on 26 April 2012
Tags: cars, frecciarossa, rail, rome, station, track, train
ROME – It has been reported that a few cars of an Italian train ran off the track as it was entering Rome’s Termini station. It said in a statement that the Frecciarossa train, part of the state railways high-speed fleet, was traveling slowly, about 30 km (20 miles) an hour, when a few cars [...]
Posted on 13 April 2012
Tags: film, movie, rome, to rome with love, woody allen
ROME – No doubts that Rome inspired the last movie of Woody Allen, but are Rome and Italians actually like that?. Woody Allen brought “To Rome with Love” to the city that inspired his latest film, but some homegrown critics are grumbling that the American director’s new work is loaded with old-fashioned Italian stereotypes. At [...]
Posted on 10 February 2012
Tags: colosseum, monuments, news, open, rome, snow, snowstorm, storm
ROME – Rome is usually warm, and we all know this. After no big snowfall for 26 years, Rome is being hit by its second snowstorm in a week. Snow blanketed Rome’s suburbs Friday morning, and by evening, it started sticking in the capital’s center. Within two hours, at least 5 cm (2 inches) had [...]