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Snow covers the rooftops of the houses overlooking the harbour of the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Saturday, Feb.

Stephen Shaheen's Memoria Project features two figures carved from granite, a design inspired by Roman architecture and the Twin Towers.

Venice is one of those cities where the to-do item most often recommended isn't a museum or visiting a historical ruin or a gallery it's an activity that just calls for roaming around, entranced, at the everyday sights and sounds of this beautiful city.

A month after the Costa Concordia grounded with 4,229 people from 60 countries on board, Italy is remembering the victims of one of the worst disasters on a luxury liner since the Titanic.

When I began writing my 12th book, I didn't know if it would be literary fiction or chick lit.

Our photographer left his bulky equipment behind to capture the beauty of Italy using only his smartphone.

A woman walks as the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship is seen off the west coast of Italy at the snow-covered Giglio island on Saturday.

Prime Minister Mario Monti of Italy said Friday that Greece's government had made a "remarkable effort" to reach new austerity agreements with lenders to avoid a calamitous default, and that he did not believe that Greece would withdraw from the 17-nation group of European countries that use the euro currency, as some economists have forecast.

The scaffolding that has long been a part of the Colosseum in Rome will finally come down after its top-to-bottom cleaning.

Italian Premier Mario Monti said Friday that President Barack Obama far exceeded his expectations in supporting the economic reforms he has instituted to tackle his country's financial crisis.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has seen many fine guest conductors this season as it searches for a new music director.

A woman was found frozen to death in a cave near Rome and a man was reported attacked by scavenging stray dogs near Rimini as a cold snap gripped Italy on Friday, leaving thousands without electricity.

Italian Michele Soranzo has moved to Shanghai for 10 years. He and his partner have founded a website to help Italian people to settle in Shanghai.

In 1872, a dissatisfied opera-goer who had attended a performance of Verdi's "Aida" in Parma, Italy, wrote to the composer asking for his money back.

"Subaru With Hosta at Night" is one of Jeff Epstein's paintings in his exhibition at the Gallery at Chapin in Princeton.

A cruise liner sails past the Giudecca canal in Venice, Italy. The fatal grounding of the Costa Concordia off the Tuscan coast has sharpened the focus on the largely unchecked boom of these ever-larger luxury liners.

Few people realize the large number of Italian islands off of the coast of Italy; all of which offer great yacht charter cruising locations with numerous anchorages on a crewed yacht charter itinerary for this yacht charter destination.

Eager for Europe to contain its economic troubles, President Barack Obama praised Italian Premier Mario Monti on Thursday for his efforts to lead Italy out of its fiscal quagmire.

Reports indicate that the Serie A fixture will be played as scheduled, despite the recent trend of matches being postponed in Italy due to snow over the last week The mouth-watering duel between second-placed AC Milan and third-placed Udinese is unlikely to be affected by adverse weather.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, by combining budget cuts with deregulation, has won praise from French President Nicolas Sarkozy for "spectacular progress" in fighting the debt crisis while racing to stay ahead of domestic critics.