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• Gladiators to ‘fight’ again at Rome’s Colosseum
Ancient Sporting Event Images on mosaics and reliefs that decorated the houses and tombs in Pompeii have allowed historians to reconstruct Rome's ancient gladiator games. Gladiators are to return to Rome's most famous fight arena almost 2,000 years ...
• 12 deaths blamed on snow, cold across Europe
... 13 degrees Fahrenheit. Italian police said a Milan businessman standing on his balcony was killed when the snow brought down a canopy and part of a wall. A 47-year-old Serbian was found frozen to death in his home in the town of Zagarolo, east of Rome
• 7 movies that glamorize business travel
But there’s a hilarious, if hokey, scene at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport, a nice set piece involving the concierge at the Hotel Danieli in Venice, and breathtaking scenery shot in and around Le Sirenuse Hotel in Positano on the Amalfi Coast. Watch for ...
• Soccer's Cabrini moonlights as a novelist
"I find books about football and sport predictable. When you've read one, they are more or less all the same," said Cabrini. "I think I'm the first former athlete to write a novel rather than a book about their world." ROME - Former Italy defender ...
• Rare pink iguana evaded Darwin
Gentile, a researcher in the Department of Biology at Tor Vergata University in Rome, and his colleagues took blood samples from several Galapagos iguanas, including the better-known yellow species. They extracted DNA from the blood to illuminate how ...