Italian culture ministry says any advertisements will have to be compatible with 2,000-year-old arena

Italian officials are seeking to raise €25m (£20m) in private money to finance the restoration of the Colosseum. The culture ministry says the government will accept bids from possible sponsors from 4 August to 15 September. The ministry said sponsors would be able to "promote their image" but that any advertisements will have to be compatible with the 2,000-year-old arena. Rome's municipal

New facility at site of former prison aims to pass on lessons of peace process to other global troublespots

Plans to turn Northern Ireland's former high-security Maze prison into a centre to promote conflict resolution around the world have finally been agreed after years of political deadlock.

Northern Ireland's deputy first minister, Martin McGuinness, said today that he and the first minister, Peter Robinson, had reached an agreement on the development of

Women who commit neonaticide rarely have a psychotic disorder – and that's something the public find difficult to understand, writes Sandra Wheatley

Women who kill their babies within 24 hours of birth, as seems to have been the case here, are usually young and have a poor education, and it's often their first child.

Those who commit neonaticide, as it's technically called, don't tend to have a mental illness. They very