The Belvedere Glacier at the foot of the east face of Monte Rosa on the border between Italy and Switzerland has lost 60 m of thickness in ten years, Legambiente said on Saturday. This is the equivalent of a 20-storey building, the environmental wat…
The Calabrian coastal town of Cutro on Saturday marked the six-month anniversary of the February 26 shipwreck in which 94 refugees and migrants including 35 children lost their lives. On the initiative on local online newspaper CrotoneNews, resident…
The 19-year-old victim of an alleged gang rape in Palermo in July said Saturday she was tired of being stigmatised for her behaviour and told that she deserved what happened to her, and told her detractors to knock it off. “Honestly, I’m tired of be…
A bout of extreme bad weather including heavy rainfall, strong winds and lightning hit the northern region of Lombardy on Saturday afternoon as a cyclone arriving from the north began to push its way down the country. The situation was said to be cr…
Italian artist Luca Maria Patella has died in Rome aged 89. “The eclectic artist died yesterday (on Friday, ed.) at his home in Rome,” announced the Il Ponte gallery in Florence in a tribute to the Patella, one of the first artists to experiment wit…
Belgium forward Romelu Lukaku said on Saturday he would travel to Rome on Sunday to sign a contract with AS Roma. “I’m nervous… Tomorrow I will fly to Rome to sign,” said Lukaku, speaking to Belgian media outlet HNL on the sidelines of a youth tou…
