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Matera, the European Capital of Culture 2019, celebrates one of its most famous sons; Rocco Petrone, who went on to become a mechanical engineer in the US and made a fundamental contribution to Nasa's Apollo 11 mission

The northern Italian city of Bologna is accustomed to firsts - it was the first western city to set up a university course, the first to abolish slavery and now, it has also become one of the first places in the world offering tours guided by homeless people.

A joint celebration in China toasted the first birthdays of 18 panda cubs.

Volvo is recalling up to half a million vehicles due to safety concerns linked to a manufacturer failure.

Italy had more overnight stays by foreign nationals than tourist hotspot France, it's been claimed.

The project was organised by the "Urban Shepherds" collective, to encourage cities to rethink urban and rural divides and integrate more farm animals into day-to-day living.

Lizzie Daly and Dan Abbott, who discovered the specimen, estimated it to be around 1.5-metres-long — as large as the divers themselves.

The area is so unlike anything else on earth that it has been used as a case study by astronauts.

Owners of the company said that their goal is to put on events that Japan, and indeed the world, has never seen before.

The city of Batumi on Georgia's Black Sea coast is bracing for a tourism boom after winning the 2019 title of "Europe’s Leading Emerging Tourism Destination" at the prestigious World Travel Awards.