For Tennessee Williams, Rome was a longtime love affair, “the capitol of my heart” with its skies of “stainless blue” and cathedral domes “bathed in golden light.” At times, he worried about how Romans felt in return.

Raffaele Esposito, the 19th century Neapolitan credited with inventing Italy’s most famous type of pizza, may be turning in his grave: Rome has a new vending machine which slides out freshly cooked pizzas in just three minutes.

ROME, Jan 14: Rome banned all diesel vehicles from its roads for the first time on Tuesday to try to combat rising pollution, with numerous other cities in central and northern Italy also imposing curbs to cut harmful emissions.

Andrea Gandini, a 22-year-old Roman sculptor, is making a growing name for himself by turning the Eternal City’s dead tree stumps into much-admired pieces of art.

ITALIA, Oct 7: Dental remains have found in Italy, testified to a peopling phase during a stage associated with one among the harshest climatic conditions in the Northern hemisphere during the entire Quaternary period.

ROME, Aug 20: The Italian engineer who designed the Genoa bridge that collapsed and killed dozens warned four decades ago that it would require constant maintenance to remove rust given the effects of corrosion from sea air and pollution on the concrete.

LALITPUR, Dec 20: Human rights activists have said the political parties were nervous they would be dragged into cases and have to face charges if the Rome Statute was ratified.

KATHMANDU, Oct 2: Minister for Commerce, Romi Gauchan Thakali, on Saturday left for Rome, the capital of Italy, to take part in the 'Fourth Ministerial Meeting of Agricultural Commodity Markets and Prices' at the invitation of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director General, Jose Graziano da Silva.

MILAN, Sept 27: At 40, Francesco Totti may not be Roma's 'Golden Boy' anymore, but he is still very much 'the King of Rome.'

ROME, Aug 24: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude estimated at 6.1 has rattled Rome and central Italy in the middle of the night.