Italy

Cinema

War in Afghanistan at Venice Film Festival

Danish director Tobias Lindholm is teaming up again with Pilou Asbaek of the hit tv series ‘Borgen’ for the drama ‘A War’ screened at the Horizons

08/09/2015

Cinema

Star-studded world premieres shine at Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival has kicked off in style with a number of world premieres including ‘A Bigger Splash’ starring Ralph Fiennes, Dakota Johnson

07/09/2015

Health Series

Say cheese: the whey forward in renewable plastics

Whey from cheese production and other agricultural waste can be a valuable raw material for new biodegradable plastic. A European research project

07/09/2015

Cinema

Boston Globe revelations of child abuse hit the silver screen in the film Spotlight

Actors Mark Ruffalo, Stanley Tucci, Rachel McAdams and director Tom McCarthy were at the Venice Film Festival to present the movie ‘Spotlight’. The

04/09/2015

Italy

Sardinia: 781 migrants brought ashore

The media focus on migrants may have currently shifted to central Europe and Hungary. But the flow of arrivals continues on the shores of southern

03/09/2015

Cinema

Everest cast and crew discuss taking on the world's highest mountain

As the film premiered out of competition in Venice, the cast of Everest talked of the difficulties of filming in gruelling conditions and the responsibility of depicting real-life events.

03/09/2015

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“A Chiena” water festival

03/09/2015

Italy

Everest thriller opens Venice Film Festival

The first red carpet of the Venice Film Festival was filled with the stars of the mountainous thriller Everest, along with members of the event’s

03/09/2015

Cinema

Stars and gondolas, Venice Film Festivals opens on top of the world

Everest opens the 72nd Venice Film Festival. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley, it is based on the 1996 climbers' disaster on the world's highest peak.

02/09/2015

Italy

Venice film festival 2015

The world’s oldest surviving film festival is getting underway in Venice – the 72nd edition of what’s locally called La Mostra brings with it 11

02/09/2015

Italy

Suspected people traffickers accused of murder - a first in Italian legal history

Ten suspected people traffickers have been arrested in Sicily. They are accused of cramming dozens of migrants into the airless hold of a boat where

28/08/2015

Italy

1,500 people rescued amid latest migrant tragedy in Mediterranean Sea

Nearly 1,500 people were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard and European Navy ships on Thursday. Two rubber dinghies packed with 269 people were

28/08/2015

Italy

Italy: More than 1,500 migrants arrive in Sicily and Sardinia

More than 1,500 migrants landed on Italian shores on Monday, as the influx of desperate people fleeing conflict and poverty continues. Some 550

24/08/2015

Italy

Migrants: scuffles with police as hundreds march in Milan

Hundreds of migrants marched down the main Fulvio Testi road, one of the major arteries leading into Italy’s financial capital, Milan. #news

24/08/2015

Italy

Major Italian rescue mission for 3,000 migrants adrift off Libya

Some 3,000 migrants were on Saturday rescued off the coast of Libya, according to the Italian coast guard. The coastguard received SOS calls from 18

22/08/2015

Italy

Vittorio Casamonica's mafia-style funeral raises eyebrows in Rome

Questions are bring asked about why a lavish funeral for Vittorio Casamonica, a purported Italian crime boss, was allowed through the streets of Rome

22/08/2015

Italy

Rome becomes like 'Godfather' set for 'crime boss' showbiz funeral

A brass band played music from “The Godfather” movie at the funeral of purported Italian crime boss Vittorio Casamonica on Thursday (August 21). His

21/08/2015

Italy

The price, and profits, of the people trade

A UN container recently brought a deadly cargo to Catania in Italy. It contained 49 bodies salvaged from an overloaded fishing boat boat where they

19/08/2015

Italy

Italy: 8 suspected human traffickers arrested following 49 migrant deaths

Italian authorities arrest eight suspected human traffickers after 49 migrants were found dead on a boat in the Mediterranean.

18/08/2015

Italy

Migrants mourned by Sicilian locals after more bodies are recovered

Forty-nine balloons are released to honour the 49 migrants who suffocated in the hold of a ship as they attempted to cross the Mediterranean Sea.. Sicilian locals used their annual feast day to mourn

18/08/2015

Italy

Sicily receives hundreds of migrants rescued from Mediterranean

Sicily has received some of the 719 people rescued from the Mediterranean on Saturday (August 15). Three operations were carried out, coordinated by

16/08/2015

Italy

'Immersed in water, fuel and human excrement': 40 dead on migrant boat

At least 40 migrants have been found dead in the hold of a waterlogged boat crossing the Mediterranean. The Italian Navy says it discovered the

15/08/2015

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Heavy floods hit Italian coastal region

13/08/2015

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International rescue of Sub-Saharan and Palestinian migrants

13/08/2015

Sport

Man City's Dzeko moves to Roma in loan deal

Edin Dzeko has joined Serie A side Roma on a season-long loan from Manchester City. Only last summer the 29-year-old Bosnia-Hercegovina international

12/08/2015

Italy

Italy: 800 rescued migrants brought ashore

Around eight-hundred migrants have been brought to the Italian port of Reggio Calabria. They were picked up from boats in the Mediterranean during

08/08/2015