August 8, 2020 Austrian tourist taking photo with 200-year-old sculpture breaks its toes The tourist, who took the photo at an art museum in northern Italy last week, has apologized.
August 7, 2020 Palermo sets example for the return of tour-level tennis The only player who tested positive for the coronavirus was withdrawn from the tournament without ever setting foot at the venue.
August 7, 2020 Pope Francis names six women to Vatican council in historic shift Pope Francis appointed six women to oversee the Vatican's finances on Thursday, making them the most senior female officials who have ever served there.
August 5, 2020 Tourist snaps toes off 19th century statue while posing for photo: report An Austrian tourist damaged a plaster model of a 200-year-old sculpture in Italy last week while trying to take a selfie with the artwork, according to multiple reports.
August 3, 2020 Emeritus Pope Benedict falls ill after return from visiting late brother in Germany Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI has fallen ill after his return from a trip to his native Bavaria to visit his brother, who died a month ago, a German newspaper reported Monday.
August 2, 2020 96-year-old Italian man, a WWII veteran, becomes country's oldest graduate He completed a three-year degree starting in 2017.
July 28, 2020 Andrea Bocelli says coronavirus lockdown 'humiliated and offended' him, even though he tested positive Legendary opera tenor Andrea Bocelli, who survived COVID-19 this spring, is getting major blowback in Italy after he said the coronavirus lockdown made him feel “humiliated and offended” by depriving him of his personal autonomy to come and go as he pleased.
July 26, 2020 Italy's Giglio Island sees zero residents with coronavirus: 'Nobody is sick' Questions abound as the tiny Italian island has been mostly spared from the devastations of COVID-19.
July 21, 2020 Police find cocaine smuggled inside of hundreds of individual coffee beans, addressed to movie mob boss Police in Italy intercepted a package carrying approximately 500 coffee beans stuffed with cocaine and addressed to a fictional mob boss from a movie.
July 21, 2020 Zanardi transferred to rehab center after handbike crash Alex Zanardi, the Italian auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist, was transferred to a neurological rehabilitation center Tuesday, a month after getting seriously injured in a handbike crash.