February 16, 2021 Italy won't let ski slopes open after coronavirus variant detected in country Things are going downhill for skiing in 2021.
January 29, 2021 Sicilian village auctioning homes for $1 and paying for renovations Tronia, an Italian village in Sicily, is incentivizing buyers to move there by giving them $30,000 towards renovations.
January 27, 2021 Pompeii's museum comes back to life to display amazing finds Pompeii’s museum has reopened 41 years after it closed because of an earthquake in 1980.
January 20, 2021 World leaders react to Biden’s inauguration: 'A great day for democracy' Joe Biden’s inauguration as the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday drew congratulations from many leaders around the world.
January 15, 2021 Dutch government resigns over child welfare scandal Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his entire Cabinet resigned Friday to take political responsibility for a scandal involving investigations into child welfare payments that wrongly labeled thousands of parents as fraudsters.
January 13, 2021 Massive Italian mafia trial begins against ‘ndrangheta mob A maxi-trial opened Wednesday in southern Italy against the ‘ndrangheta crime syndicate, arguably the world's richest criminal organization that quietly amassed power in Italy as the Sicilian Mafia lost its influence.
December 25, 2020 Newt Gingrich: COVID Christmas isn’t our first facing hard times. We recovered before, we’ll recover again When we look back years from now, we will all realize how much our lives have been defined in 2020, and probably the first half of 2021, by the pandemic.
December 24, 2020 Pope Francis celebrates low-key Christmas Eve Mass amid coronavirus restrictions Pope Francis celebrated Christmas Eve Mass on Thursday night amid coronavirus restrictions that reduced a normal crowd of as many as 10,000 congregants to a group of fewer than 100 people, according to reports.
December 24, 2020 Santa's 'grandchildren' bring Christmas cheer to Italian nursing home Emotions are running high this holiday season at the Martino Zanchi Foundation nursing home in northern Italy near Bergamo after months of near-total isolation for its residents.
December 20, 2020 European nations ban flights from UK to prevent coronavirus mutation from spreading to continent Several European nations on Sunday banned flights from the United Kingdom to prevent a new strain of the coronavirus rapidly spreading across southern England from gaining traction on the continent.