In its latest heatwave bulletin published on Saturday, the Italian health ministry says that by Monday, some 25 of the country’s 27 major cities will be on red alert. It says it expects only two – Reggio Calabria in the southern tip of Italy’s “boot” and Messina, facing it across on the island of Sicily…
Published on 27/07/2026 – 13:15 GMT+2 A man has been jailed in Italy for fraud after charging tourists €40 to visit a fake Roman amphitheatre he built himself twenty years ago. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Franco Malosso ‘von Rosenfranz’, 69, claimed to have discovered the site, known as the Berico Maritime Amphitheatre in the north-eastern city of…
Bologna, Italy – Six minutes and 56 seconds. That is the length of the video capturing the final moments of Abderrahim Fakir, a 42-year-old Moroccan-born man who had lived in Bologna, northern Italy, for more than three decades. Filmed shortly after 12:30pm local time (10:30 GMT) on Sunday from the balcony of a nearby apartment…
Protests have taken place in Italy after the death of a Moroccan-born man while being forcibly restrained by two police officers in the northern city of Bologna. Several thousand people took to the streets on Monday night demanding “justice for Abderrahim Fakir”. A smaller group then splintered off and clashed with police into the night….
The cuisine here is dictated—and liberated—by what comes from the valleys and surrounding South Tyrol, oscillating between Italian and Austrian influences. Every evening, under the watch of gilded cherubs that decorate the Stube Badia’s walls, dinner is sustenance-giving but never heavy: modern-minded mountain food. Veneto-born chef Alberto Toè serves canederli dumplings plump with speck and…
PARIS and ROME – Thales agreed to buy 35.5% of French underwater-drone maker Exail Technologies from the Gorgé family, and plans to make a tender offer to buy the remainder of the company at an implied enterprise value of €3.9 billion (US$4.5 billion), beating a competing offer by Safran. Thales will offer to buy the…
ROME — Japan, Italy and the U.K. have handed a £4.6 billion ($6.1 billion) development contract to their national champions building the GCAP jet, days after the U.K. freed up crucial cash to make it happen following a months long hold-up. The three nations said on Friday they had handed the 18-month contract to Edgewing,…
Published on 30/06/2026 – 15:11 GMT+2 An ancient scroll that survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD has finally revealed its secrets. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Scientists were able to decipher the fragile scroll without unrolling it. Instead, they used artificial intelligence to uncover what ended up being, rather ironically, a philosophical treatise on ethics,…
Defense stocks plummeted on Wednesday after a report that Germany will abandon plans to build six warships, fuelling investor fears that the boost to defense contractors from increased government spending may not fully materialize. Berlin is planning to scrap a multi-billion-euro project to build the F126 frigates, according to the Financial Times, citing two people…
NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum speaks during the second round of the 2019 NBA Draft at the Barclays Center on June 20, 2019, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Sarah Stier | Getty Images The NBA plans to name winning bidders for 12 permanent European teams in the next 60 to 90 days,…
