Place: Piazza Navona

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travel

I love Rome in the springtime

EVER wonder what showtime must have been like at Rome’s Colosseum? Cast your mind back to Ireland and Italy’s recent rugby showdown at the Stadio Olimpico. The Six Nations is as close as rugby gets to all-out gladiatorial combat: by the time the Irish and Italian teams were done tearing chunks out of each other, bruised and battered bodies were legion.

world

Francis starts as he means to go on — by bus

travel

Walking in winter wonderlands

general

New Caravaggio sketches: Real or fake?

world

Mobster exhumed over missing Vatican teen

world

Man caught on camera knocking chunks off famed Rome fountain

Italian riot police tear gas proestors

Italian riot police tonight used tear gas against anti-Bush demonstrators, disrupting an anti-globalisation protest in the centre of Rome.

Sat, 09 Jun, 2007

'I fear death bid by fanatic' - Berlusconi

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said today he is afraid of being assaulted and even killed as a result of the media’s negative portrayal of him during his five years in office and the hatred of leftist sympathisers.

Mon, 22 May, 2006

Berlusconi forgives New Year's Eve attacker

Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi telephoned the man who struck at him in a busy Rome piazza on New Year’s Eve, ensuring him of forgiveness and reassuring the his worried mother that he would not press charges, a report said today.

Tue, 04 Jan, 2005