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“Bread and circuses” was the formula that ancient Rome’s rulers hoped would keep the restless natives happy. Two millennia later, residents of the Eternal...
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Life
In fact, parasites were worse in Roman times than earlier eras, such as the Bronze and Iron age. This is one of the findings...
World
Pope Francis on Wednesday offered a surprise public apology from the Catholic Church for a series of scandals which have shaken the city of...
World
Pope Francis raised eyebrows in Italy on Tuesday by slapping down the left-leaning mayor of Rome as someone who “pretends to be Catholic”. The...
World
Grabbing something hot and tasty on the move? You have the ancient Romans to thank. “Street food” was their invention, generally enjoyed with wine,...
World
It boasts some of the most prized archaeological sites in the world, but modern-day Rome, plagued by the mafia, has descended into a grimy...
Entertainment
Review: ‘Caesar’ in High Park makes bold choices; not all of them work (Includes first-hand account)
Alternating with The Comedy of Errors at this year’s Shakespeare in High Park (an annual Toronto tradition since 1983), this modernized version of the...
World
Italian police on Tuesday arrested six people, including a senior culture official, in a probe running parallel to a major investigation into a mafia...
World
That deceptively simple question now looks like it may never be answered in the case of Amanda Knox, the Seattle woman acquitted Friday of...
Entertainment
One of Michael Des Barres‘s first film roles of note was as one of the students in the classic Sidney Poitier vehicle To Sir,...