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Andyar has not contacted any Afghan or international track-and-field authorities since disappearing Friday from a training facility in Formia, Italy, 106 miles (170 km) south of Rome, where she and other international athletes were based in June. Italian police are investigating the disappearance, though there are no signs of foul play. Her bags and passport were also gone from her room, a sign that she may have left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Is the Afghan Female Runner? | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

...does. Australian Rules, a cross between rugby league and Gaelic football, requires the utmost fitness, as there are virtually no stoppages and minimal reserves of replacement players. As for equestrian competition, when the Australian team won the Three-Day Event over the killer course at the 1960 Olympics in Rome, it was rumored that they practiced by hunting kangaroos across barbed-wire fences. J.-Alice Hofler, Sydney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

...VATICAN bans DA VINCI CODE prequel from filming in Rome churches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 6/19/2008 | See Source »

...Goats and cattle are gaunt from lack of grazing and the sorghum crop is failing. Armed cattle rustlers roam the region, making the roads too dangerous for most travel. Commercial transporters refuse to haul in WFP goods, despite escorts from Uganda's national army. Yet the biggest challenge the Rome-based agency has ever faced, executive director Josette Sheeran announced in April, came this year: the exploding price of food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Food Program: On the Front Lines of Hunger | 6/18/2008 | See Source »

...because of a shortage of funds. In Sri Lanka, a food-for-work scheme to maintain irrigation systems was axed for the same reason. "In a sense we're mortgaging the long term to pay for the short term," says John Aylieff, WFP's global head of programs in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Food Program: On the Front Lines of Hunger | 6/18/2008 | See Source »

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