Dublin News
A recent survey of the cost of living worldwide by Mercer Human Resources Consulting has rated Irelands capital city as the joint 13th most expensive in the world (the first being Tokyo). In Europe, o...
Paris News
2005 was a bumper year for French students. Just over 80 per cent of students passed their final school examinations, the Baccalaurat. The results were published on 12 July confirming that 2005s figu...
Paris News
France tightens its frontiers.
The French Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, has announced that France is reinstating border controls as a response to the London bombings. He made the statement at a meeting in Brussels with his f...
London News
BBC bosses have upset many of their staff, thousands of whom are facing redundancy, by accepting huge bonuses of up to 25 peer cent of their salaries.
Mark Thompson the BBC director-general turned d...
Paris News
France marks the passing of Claude Simon.
Winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1985 and a household name in France for over 60 years, Claude Simon, the novelist, has passed away at the age of 91.
Simon was considered one of the great...
London News
There was jubilation throughout the United Kingdom when it was announced that London had won its bid to host the 2012 Olympics. But then the bombs came and the celebrations for the Olympic victory was...
Madrid News
Madrid launches its Madridcard.
Theres now a new way to see the sights of Madrid. Tourists visiting Spains capital city would be well advised to think about the advantages of buying a Madridcard.
This card, which can be bought onl...
Dublin News
The Irish economy has for some years now been something of a fairy-tale. Since joining the European Union, the country has seen its economy go from strength to strength, and in fact Ireland has been d...
Rome News
When I first came to Rome I was excited because I was here years ago when I was a freshman in highschool and I’ve counted the days until I could study abroad here since. My family and I came for only...
Rome News
Getting the opportunity to experience the historic foundation of the Eternal City was one of the things I loved about my stay in Rome.
Living in Rome for the past five months has given me the incredi...
Rome News
Studying abroad in Rome has been an amazing journey for me. Being born and raised in Miami, Florida I have always been used to the city life with the ambulance driving by every 5 minutes, having homel...
Rome News
Moving to Rome is a dream come true for most college students, the idea of living a fantasy life in accordance to the films we all saw growing up like “Eat, Pray, Love” or the “Lizzie McGuire movie,”...
Rome News
Three Reasons to Study Abroad in Rome
Experience, Experience, Experience: Three Reasons to Study Abroad in Rome
As a writer, I believe there are few things that are more important than experience. In the words of Eleanor Roosevelt, “Th...
Rome News
Restaurant service is totally different
Studying for a semester in Rome, I have encountered a culture shock--noticing great differences.
As a student who resides in Miami, I yearned for a kind of history that south Florida lacked. While Fl...
Rome News
When I made plans to move to Roma for four months, I was not anticipating the level of culture shock I experienced. From January until now, I have learned to quickly adapt to the atmosphere around me....
Rome News
Travel throughout Europe at an inexpensive rate
The eternal city is often regarded as one of the most beautiful and timeless metropolitan areas in the world. With a complex history that spans over thousands of years, both tourists and locals are co...
Rome News
Graffiti on buildings older than my home country
Some may see it as shameful and degenerative, but i think it is a generational stamp on structures that have lived before us and hopefully long after.
A complex mix of urban and ancient, Rome is my...
Rome News
People warned me about the catcalling
Picture this: you just took your seat on your 11 hour flight from the United States to spend a semester in Rome, Italy away from your family and friends. What are you supposed to expect from somewhere...
Oxford News
Oxford hospital grounds for redevelopment.
The Oxford Mental Health Trust is seeking planning permission to build homes for key workers and research facilities on the land adjacent to the Warneford and Park Hospitals in Headington. The Trust,...
Jersey News
Rising energy costs due in great part to the depletion of world-wide supplies of oil, would affect Jersey as much as it would the rest of modern globalised society, according to Senator Stuart Syvret,...
