Mariano Mantel
With such a colourful political past, the British prime minister will be hoping for a show of substance in choosing the Tuscan city.
Anopheles mosquito.
Jim Gathany-CDC/Flickr
The death of a young Italian girl from cerebral malaria has scientists scratching their heads.
A protest in Rome on August 26 after violent evictions from Piazza Indipendenza.
Angelo Carconi/EPA
Police used water cannons and tear gas to remove a group of migrants and refugees from a square in Rome in August.
Young doctoral candidate on the stage of the competition “My Thesis in 180 Seconds” at Polytechnique.
Ecole polytechnique Université Paris-Saclay/Flickr
Despite an international context in transformation, the doctorate seems to have difficulty evolving in Europe. What are experiments have been tried and what are the avenues of innovation?
Benito Mussolini’s bust and crypt in San Cassiano cemetery are a sensitive topic in Predappio, Italy.
Saiko/Wikimedia
Politicians hope that a “museum of fascism” in Benito Mussolini’s hometown can help the country face its demons. Historians aren’t so sure.
Matt Canavan says he did not know he was an Italian citizen, claiming his mother signed him up on his behalf.
AAP/Lukas Coch
Matt Canavan was seemingly able to obtain Italian citizenship without being born or spending any time in Italy.
‘Damenkneipe,’ or ‘Ladies’ Saloon,’ painted by Rudolf Schlichter in 1923. In 1937, many of his paintings were destroyed by the Nazis as ‘degenerate art.’
The 1920s and early ‘30’s looked like the beginning of the end for centuries of gay intolerance. Then came fascism and the Nazis.
A ship with rescued migrants arrives at the Italian port of Salerno in late June.
Ciro Fusco/EPA
It is a dangerous and illegal move to make.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock.
Flickr/Theresa275
Arthur Conan Doyle may have stitched something into the detective books that nobody ever noticed.
Antonio Nardelli / shutterstock
Of the 14 subspecies of brown bear, this is the most endangered.
Virginia Raggi.
Angelo Carconi/EPA
Is there a new migrant emergency in Rome?
Memorial to early 1990s war in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
Clay Gilliland
Everyone has forgotten there were almost as many asylum seekers in Europe in the early 1990s as today.
Merkel consider her options after meeting with Trump on May 26, 2017, in Italy.
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
For more than seven decades, US presidents have encouraged peace in Europe. Trump seems eager to toss that legacy aside. Here’s what is at stake.
Luiscar74/Shutterstock
A new law makes it mandatory for children in Italy to have 12 vaccines.
A view of Tehran, with its mix of traditional and modern design.
Jørn Eriksson/Flick
Without protection, Iran’s spectacular American- and Italian-designed mid-century structures will be reduced to dust, beams and concrete blocks.
from www.shutterstock.com
Local and national authorities are curtailing civil liberties in the name of ‘security’.
In southern Italy, judges are trying to ‘save’ children from a life in the mafia.
via shutterstock.com
In ’Ndrangheta mafia families, the inter-generational links go deep.
A fisherman shows an oil slick close to the Niger Delta following a large spill in 2013.
REUTERS/Stringer
The move by the African Union to develop a policy to regulate the impact of firms on human rights puts it ahead of other regions as it seeks to guide companies conducting activities on the continent.
In the 1950s, Reggio Calabria on the toe of Italy, was a dangerous place to grow up.
lyonara/flickr
When floods hit the toe of Italy, children were sent away, often for years.
Peace Delegates on the Noordam – Mrs. P. Lawrence, Jane Addams, Anna Molloy.
Library of Congress
Over a century ago, American women organized to protest World War I. The fact that their efforts failed isn’t the most important point.