27 h. ago The best hotels in Rome for nights in historic palaces and lavish city hideaways

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38 h. ago Cruz Beckham's girlfriend Jackie Apostel, 29, shows off sweaty shirtless photo of boyfriend

Jackie Apostel shared a photo of boyfriend Cruz Beckham trying to kick-back and relax in the sauna and the 20-year-old didn't seem thrilled by the interruption!

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38 h. ago FLIGHT REVIEW: ITA Business Class – London City to Rome – Almost Kicked Off for Taking a Photo!

FLIGHT REVIEW: ITA Business Class – London City to Rome – Almost Kicked Off for Taking a Photo!  Turning left for less

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42 h. ago The Tallis Scholars review – inspired pairing of Palestrina and Pärt brings shining warmth and clarity

St George’s BristolThe consummate vocal ensemble beautifully highlighted symbolic connections between the 16th-century Italian composer and soon-to-be 90 Arvo PärtThis year marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Palestrina, the Italian composer who took the name of his native town, just east of Rome, now part of the metropolitan city. In director Peter Phillips’s inspired pairing of Palestrina with the music of Arvo Pärt in the year of his 90th birthday, there was a particular frisson in knowing that in January, the Tallis Scholars had sung this very programme in the cathedral of Sant’Agapito Martire in Palestrina, where the young Giovanni Pierluigi may have been a chorister and was certainly organist from the age of 19.Phillips has described Palestrina as the “most consummate of renaissance composers”: it may surely be said that the Tallis Scholars are the consummate vocal ensemble. Opening with his motet Surge Illuminare, the 10 Scholars immediately brought a shining warmth t...

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9 d. ago Europe’s best city for food named and it’s not London, Paris or Rome

Europe’s best city for food named and it’s not London, Paris or Rome  Express

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1 week ago Influencer reveals travel hack that allows you get an ENTIRE row of seats to yourself on flights

Maddie Borge, who lives in London, embarked on a long overnight flight to Sydney in economy class with Etihad Airways last month when she discovered the hack.

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1 week ago Celebrity holograms, helicopters and champagne cruises: How to spend £100,000 on a London weekend

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1 week ago Italian postal service sees surge in mail for Pope Francis, much sent from children

The Italian postal service has seen a huge increase in mail addressed to Pope Francis since his Feb. 14 hospitalization

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3 w. ago Iconic London double decker bus has been given a 'first class lounge'

A double-decker bus has been given an upgrade – to become an exclusively ‘first class’ ride.

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3 w. ago Archaeologists find lost city that rewrites ancient Rome's collapse

The excavation of an ancient Roman city has rewritten the history of the fall of Rome, archaeologists say. This previously overlooked settlement actually thrived as the Empire crumbled.

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3 w. ago Archaeological excavation at Italian town rewrites timeline of Rome’s collapse

Excavations suggest the town was likely visited by Julius Caesar

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3 w. ago Pope resting after sleeping through the night with a ventilation mask as he battles pneumonia

Pope Francis is resting after sleeping through the night with a ventilation mask as he undergoes hospital treatment for double pneumonia

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4 w. ago John Paul II's hospital stays at Gemelli were much longer than Pope Francis' so far. Here's a look

Pope Francis has spent 18 full days at Rome’s Gemelli hospital recovering from double pneumonia

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