A request from Reggio Emilia’s Jewish community helped trigger the decision to cancel two July concerts by Kanye West. It is the latest in a string of European bans on the rapper now known as Ye.
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A traffic officer’s late-night joke with firecrackers sent 35 military horses bolting down one of Rome’s busiest roads. In total, four people and up to 15 animals were injured — the night before final rehearsals for the 2 June celebrations.
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A Nissan Qashqai, whose driver allegedly ran a stop sign, struck a school bus head-on in Mazara del Vallo. The bus overturned, resulting in two children to hospital in Palermo by helicopter.
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The killing of a 22-year-old at Certosa station has reignited a bitter political argument about urban safety, gang violence. A key question: has Italy’s government has delivered on its law-and-order promises.
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A night vigil in Piazza della Signoria, a commemorative procession, and a conference on unresolved judicial questions will mark the anniversary of the 1993 Via dei Georgofili bombing on 26-27 May. The Cosa Nostra attack that killed five people in the heart of the city.
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The Tuscan capital, Florence, is the only Italian city in the global top 20 in a Time Out survey. It is recognised for a cultural offering that extends well beyond its Renaissance monuments.
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Delta Air Lines’s new JFK–Olbia service, chosen by a public vote, marks a historic shift in transatlantic access to one of the Mediterranean’s most coveted destinations.
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The premier returns to the landslide-hit Sicilian town of Niscemi four months on, as investigators examine authorisations granted over decades on an unstable hillside.
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Seventeen months after an explosion tore through an Eni depot near Florence, killing five workers, prosecutors have concluded their investigation and referred nine individuals to trial. They exonerated the energy giant as a corporate entity.
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Thursday’s tremor is among the strongest recorded during the ongoing bradyseismic crisis at the Phlegrean Fields. Ground uplift has now reached 140 centimetres since 2005 and a new study warns of a critical transition within a decade.
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