Rome - Schools in Italy remained closed Thursday as teachers went on strike over controversial education reforms adopted by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government.
Thousands of students, parents and teachers joined protest marches organized by the country's major labour unions in several cities.
Leaders of the centre-left opposition which is supporting the strike also joined the protest marches.
Around mid-morning, a crowd began moving from Rome's Piazza Repubblica square towards the central Piazza del Popolo square where the protest was set to culminate with speeches by leaders of the main CGIL, CISL and UIl unions.
Rome - The largest lottery prize in Italy's history - over 100 million euros (125 million dollars) - has been won after a string of 77 weeks in a row without a winner, reports said Friday.
Rome, Oct 22 : Europe’s top scientists are holding a party to inaugurate the Large Hadron Collider despite the multi-billion dollar machine being out of order.
The giant experiment called the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) took nearly 20 years to complete and cost 4.4 billion pounds to build in a tunnel complex under the Franco-Swiss border.
According to a report in the Telegraph, the president of Switzerland and the prime minister of France will lead the celebrations to officially launch the project dubbed the biggest experiment in history.
Rome, Oct 22 : Archaeologists have discovered nine ancient Roman columns believed to have originally lined the most important Roman road into the Balkans, on a riverbed in northern Italy.
According to news agency ANSA, the stone columns are believed to date back to the fourth century AD and some carry inscriptions relating to the emperors of that late stage in the Roman Empire.
“''This is an extraordinary find because of the number of columns and the inscriptions they bear,” local archaeological authorities said.
The columns are originally believed to have served as milestones along the road that led from Aquileia to ancient Aemona, today the Slovenian capital Ljubljana.
Rome - A German posing as an estate agent has been arrested for trying to sell the US embassy in Rome, Italian media reports said Saturday.
The 57-year-old man is also believed to have offered the building that houses the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome for sale to a German businessman, the reports said.
The man was already being sought under a European warrant by German authorities for serious fraud and falsified identification papers.
Rome - Earlier this year, international donors pledged 22 billion dollars to promote global food security. But "only 10 per cent of this has so far materialized," the head of a UN food agency said Thursday.
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf made his comments at a ceremony marking World Food Day at the agency's Rome headquarters.
Rome, Oct 22 : Europe’s top scientists are holding a party to inaugurate the Large Hadron Collider despite the multi-billion dollar machine being out of order.
Rome - A German posing as an estate agent has been arrested for trying to sell the US embassy in Rome, Italian media reports said Saturday.
Rome - Earlier this year, international donors pledged 22 billion dollars to promote global food security. But "only 10 per cent of this has so far materialized," the head of a UN food agency said Thursday.
