Silvio Berlusconi’s most loyal political fixer, Marcello Dell’Utri is heading back to court aged 84. He is accused of hiding vast capital flows from the late tycoon that he was legally obliged to disclose.
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Pope Leo XIV and the newly installed Archbishop of Canterbury, Dame Sarah Mullally, met at the Vatican on Monday. The meeting had historical significance and the frank acknowledgment of deep theological divisions — pledging nonetheless to press on together.
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Venice’s storied opera house has terminated all ties with its controversial music director-designate Beatrice Venezi after comments she made to an Argentine newspaper. Venezi’s interview brought months of bitter conflict to an abrupt head and sparked scenes of jubilation inside the theatre itself.
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Michele Ferrero inherited a small pastry shop in Piedmont and grew one of Italy’s favourite food empires. He was born on 26th April, 1925. There won’t be many Italians who haven’t had Nutella at some point in their lives!
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Giovanni Caselli, the Sienese inventor whose pantelegraph transmitted handwritten images along telegraph wires more than a century before the fax machine, was born on 25 April 1815. He died on the same date he was born in 1891.
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Laboratory tests have confirmed the presence of agricultural pesticides in wolf carcasses recovered from one of Italy’s oldest and most celebrated national parks. Conservationists and opposition politicians demand urgent government action and call for a planned parliamentary bill to cull wolves to be shelved.
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Launched on the eve of Liberation Day, the Cammino ’44 traces the Gothic Line through Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna. It connects Sant’Anna di Stazzema and Marzabotto in a secular pilgrimage through the darkest chapter of Italy’s wartime history
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A court in Parma has convicted Chiara Petrolini of the premeditated murder of two babies she secretly delivered and buried on the family property.
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Speaking on the sidelines of an informal EU summit in Nicosia, Italy’s prime minister warned that NATO must be strengthened, even as she acknowledged a silence from Washington following her public rebuke of Trump’s attack on Pope Leo XIV.
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Parliament approved the security decree just hours before its deadline. However, the government simultaneously scrambled to patch a constitutionally contentious clause on lawyer incentives for migrant voluntary returns.
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