Italy News

ABOARD THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS - Standing on the open-air observation platform as the train lumbered noisily along the tracks, I nursed one of those tropical drinks noted for its jade green color and pyramid of fruit perched precariously on the rim of the glass.

Writers Jasmina Tesanovic and Bruce Sterling visit the Sardinia Radio Telescope, a large, fully steerable radio telescope currently which was recently completed near San Basilio, in province of Cagliari in Sardinia, Italy.

In the photo below, Francesco Foti appears in his one-man comedy "Niuiorc Niuiorc," the story of an Italian man who comes to New York City, which was presented on June 14 as part of "In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY."

At Anzola dell'Emilia, a short drive from the Italian city of Bologna, people from all over the world are lining up for courses in gelato-making.

ITS NEIGHBOURING island Elba is best-known for being Napoleon's prison before his escape and march to ruin at Waterloo.

Alessandro Ortenzi, 26, entered the University of Bologna in 2006 to study pharmacy.

Savonarola's preaching attracted huge crowds to Florence Cathedral - like much of the city, Botticelli had come under his sway.

File - A worker checking a wheel of seasoned Parmigiano Reggiano cheese in a factory in Valestra, near Reggio Emilia.

A British pilot has died after his light aircraft crashed into a mountain in thick fog, Italian police have confirmed.

Thousands of people have fled fast-moving wildfires in Colorado as state officials also evacuated more than 900 inmates from a prison threatened by a blaze.

The Cinque Terre is five villages on the coastline between Genoa and La Spezia. The villages used to be very isolated and the locals lived by fishing and working the terraced hillsides.

But climate-proofing a city or coastline is expensive, as shown by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's $20 billion plan to build floodwalls, levees and other defenses against rising seas.

The series finale of " The Borgias " premieres on Showtime on Sunday, June 16, 2013, at 10 p.m. ET, according to an announcement from Showtime Networks .

In the latest black eye for the scandal-ridden State Department, a whistleblower claims she was run out of the foreign service after complaining about a consul general's alleged office trysts with subordinates and hookers.

Odoardo Focherini, whom Yad Vashem honored as a Righteous among the Nations in 1969, was beatified on Saturday by the Roman Catholic Church in Carpi, his hometown in the province of Modena in northern Italy.

Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta on Saturday announced a package of measures to fund public works projects and cut red tape in a bid to pull the euro zone's third-largest economy out of recession while respecting European budget limits.

The UK's passion for Italian food has recently been dented by spicier interlopers.

The Italian coast guard has rescued 159 Syrian, Afghan and Egyptian migrants from a boat in the sea off Calabria, including a newborn baby and seven children, Italian media said on Saturday.

A councillor belonging to Italy's anti-immigrant Northern League party has called for the country's first black minister to be raped, sparking an outcry and her expulsion from the party.

Chesapeake Orchestra Music Director Jeffrey Silberschlag has performed all over the U.S., Europe, China, Russia, Japan and Israel.