Rome subway planners try to avoid relics
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In a city where traffic rumbles past the Colosseum and soccer fans celebrate victories among the remains of the Circus Maximus, it comes as no surprise that relics of the glory that was Rome turn up almost every day, and sometimes get in the way of the modern city's needs.
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BBC Click's David Reid travels to Italy to find out how research into real-time maps may solve Rome's traffic problems.
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Talks between Italy and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles over 52 art works that Rome says were looted have hit an impasse after the museum said it was prepared to return only half of them.
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It's not like anyone from a decaying neighborhood east of downtown is harboring illusions that the place is crime-free. But the discovery of six bodies has raised fears that a serial killer is preying on the area, which one activist calls the most decrepit in the city.
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"These are the problems that require a national operator to confront"  Officials in northern Italy are uniting in opposition to Air France-KLM's bid for ailing Alitalia SpA, which would make Rome the nation's only hub at the expense of Milan.The Air France plan _ which the Alitalia board tipped Friday as its preferred bidder over Italian airline Air One SpA _ would do away with Alitalia's two-hub system, one at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport and the other at Milan's Malpensa.Having a hub in Milan has been fiercely defended by northern politicians, but has been criticized as too expensive and impractical. Alitalia's board, under chairman Maurizio Prato, has already signaled its intention to cut traffic to Malpensa. Read more
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ROME -- Saying it had been blindsided by the decision of the J. Paul Getty Museum to end talks over disputed antiquities, Italy lashed out yesterday at the Los Angeles institution and reiterated demands for the return of artworks.
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MADRID : Rome was not built in a day, as the old saying goes, and it may take a little time to resolve the problems at the football club that has the name of the Italian capital.
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Airborne nose ajax drives la dolce vita Scientists from Italy's National Research Council (CNR) have discovered an even greater threat to Rome's population than getting run down by a Lambretta: particles of cocaine and marijuana in the atmosphere, centred around the city's Sapienza university.â¦
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Rome is scrambling to prevent an embarrassing collapse of the sale of national carrier Alitalia as the unprofitable airline's only real suitor struggles to raise funds for a bid.
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After the death of a policeman during a riot at a Serie A match, the Italian Olympic Committee says stadiums with inadequate security should be banned from hosting games next season.
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JERUSALEM - Under threat from Romans ransacking Jerusalem 2,000 years ago, many of the city's Jewish residents crowded into an underground drainage channel to hide and later flee the chaos through Jerusalem's southern end.
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An archaeological excavation at Jerusalem's holiest site is provoking dangerous protests
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Quentin Tarantino is in town to present  a retrospective of Italian films, but don't look for  masterpieces from the likes of Federico Fellini or Luchino  Visconti in the line-up.
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Custodians of Michelangelo's David are thinking of blasting air at dusty, sweaty tourists to stop them sullying the Renaissance sex symbol.
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ROME Italy&#39;s culture minister has threatened to shut down the Uffizi museum if the government does not scale back planned spending cuts.
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PADUA, Sep 5 (IPS) - 'Stop the Wall', say the posters on the  three-metre high metal panels that have come up to isolate the  migrant estate on Anelli Road from their surroundings in Padua.
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New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Wednesday proposed skipping two subway and bus fare hikes planned for 2007 and 2009 because the strong real estate market pumped up its revenues, according to a new budget plan proposed by its staff.