Venice is saved! Woe is Venice VIEW
The MOSE engineering project has come to embody Italy’s ambition and technical ingenuity, but also its political instability and bad governance.
Venice is saved! Woe is Venice VIEW
Today, Venice is safe, but it is staring at a future of excruciating trade-offs, with the sea level so high so often that the city...
Who will take care of Italy’s older people? Robots, maybe VIEW
In Italy, robots are the latest attempt to re-create an echo of the traditional family structure that kept aging Italians at home.
8 people rescued in Turkey after more than a week in quake rubble VIEW
The survival stories are bright spots in one of the bleakest periods in memory for Turkey after a quake killed more than 30,000 people.
Hopes for peace in South Sudan are pinned on a papal visit VIEW
On the last full day of his trip to Africa, Pope Francis met with the displaced South Sudanese who have borne the brunt of the...
Hunting for truffles is a perilous pursuit, especially for the dogs who dig VIEW
There is a murderous and money-hungry underside to truffle hunting that casts the fungi less as a fragrant Italian delicacy than as the bloodhound diamond...
Berlusconi, caught on tape gushing over Putin, heightens anxiety about Italy
The leak of surreptitiously recorded remarks revealed that he blamed Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for forcing President Vladimir Putin of Russia to invade Ukraine.
Hobbits and the hard right: How fantasy inspires Italy’s potential new leader
More than just Giorgia Meloni's favorite book series, “The Lord of the Rings” was also a sacred text. “I don’t consider ‘The Lord of the...
A famous walrus is killed, and Norwegians are divided
The slaughter of Freya has polarized Oslo and threatened to change the image of a country associated with love of nature, diplomatic do-gooding and Nobel...