BOLOGNA, Italy: A gastronomic theme park designed as a celebration of Italy’s field-to-fork food culture opens next week with backers aiming to pull in 6...
VATICAN CITY: It is like an episode of “Game of Thrones” without the explicit sex. New claims about mismanagement of the Catholic Church’s finances and...
VENICE: At 84, Michael Caine is still going strong as one of the most successful actors Britain has ever produced. Caine believes he might never have got the...
VENICE, Italy: Grouchy, greedy and constipated – nobody could accuse Stephen Frears of kowtowing with his portrayal of Queen Victoria in his new film...
TAORMINA, Italy: Is Donald Trump really going to ditch the Paris climate change accord? Whither the sweeping tax cuts and America First trade policies he has...
VENICE, Italy: Damien Hirst is back, and the art world doesn’t quite know what to make of the latest grandiose exhibition from the crown prince of...
ROME: It is famed as the place where gladiators battled lions for the amusement of the citizens of ancient Rome. But of the 6 million visitors who flock to...
ROME: The ruins of a landmark industrial building in Rome have become home to a thought-provoking art project that casts an unflattering light on the...
FLORENCE, Italy: It’s every stoner’s nightmare: marijuana plants as far as the eye can see and not a spliff in sight. “No, I have never...
PENNE, Italy: Survivors of Italy’s avalanche disaster recounted Sunday how they ate snow to stay hydrated and sung to keep their spirits up while huddling in...
MILAN: Social media are being credited with democratizing the landscape of fashion in London and New York. But in Milan’s swankiest shopping street, an...
VATICAN CITY: For those who revered her, Mother Teresa’s elevation to the Catholic sainthood Sunday came not a moment too soon. The diminutive nun whose...
ROME: The works of Ken Domon, an acclaimed photographer whose images of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bomb shocked 1950s Japan, are nowadays having their...
ROME: An Italian navy captain who led the rescue of hundreds of people from a capsized fishing boat off Libya Thursday described how one of his men had pulled...
ROME: Rome has given birth to an ambitious “vanishing” artwork with William Kentridge’s completion of a giant frieze of the city’s...
MILAN: Milan Fashion Week kicked off on a colorful note Wednesday as Blugirl designer Anna Molinari extended the hedonistic feel of her spring collection into...
Rome: Balthus is the subject of a major retrospective in Rome, two years after a similar show in New York sparked controversy over the French painter’s...
VENICE: Johnny Depp’s portrayal of James “Whitey” Bulger was tipped Friday as a potential Oscar winner after “Black Mass,” an account of the Boston mobster’s...
VENICE: Johnny Depp tops the cast of stars headed to Venice this week for what is shaping up as something of a watershed edition of the world’s oldest film...
Milan: Israel wants to use its cutting-edge agricultural technology to improve food production -- and win friends -- across Africa, Prime Minister Benjamin...
ROME: A Pakistani accused of organizing a 2009 bomb attack on a Peshawar market that killed more than 130 people, has been detained in Italy, police said...
ROME: Italy's parliament was set Monday to approve a radical new electoral law designed to end decades of political instability by ensuring that elections...
Vatican City: Pope Francis has sent Catholic clergy a powerful reminder of their duty to stamp out sexual abuse of children by priests, warning that they must...
ROME: The U.S.-led coalition of countries involved in airstrikes against ISIS will never bomb the jihadi group out of existence, a Nobel peace prize winner...
FIESOLE, Italy: New research from Harvard University suggests it could put years on your life.But a Mediterranean diet rich in pungent olive oil does not come...