Italy
Algerian immigrants deported from Italy bound and gagged
Protests against new high-speed train turn ugly
Italian shipwreck in amateur images
Tunisian revolution unleashes wave of illegal migrants
Life on an active volcano: "I kind of like it!"
How to rebuild a quake-ravaged city with the help of Google
Making a 3D model is an essential part of any construction project - but how do you model an entire city devastated by an earthquake? Residents of the quake-hit Italian city of L'Aquila are trying a creative new method: collective online modelling, thanks to a Google powered software called SketchUp. Read more...
Coca-Cola defacing Venice under 'restoration' pretexts
Over the past few years, the city of Venice has set up multiple partnerships with commercial groups such as Coca-Cola to fund the restoration of its heritage, in exchange for enormous advertising billboards on the city's historic buildings. The result is defacing the "City of Doges".
Priest invites Muslism without a Mosque to pray in churchyard
In the town of Gallarate, north of Milan, Muslims have no mosque in which to celebrate Ramadan. Instead, for the past three years they have prayed on a plot of land lent to them by... the local church. Read more...
Italian government willing to risk same fate for Mediterranean as Gulf of Mexico
The Italian government is pushing ahead with plans to permit offshore drilling just five kilometres off the coastline of the rural region of Abruzzo, despite warnings that they could be risking an environmental disaster much closer to land than the one in the Gulf of Mexico. Read more...
The Italian island of…unemployment
On a remote island near Sardinia, a group of unemployed Italians are camping in a disused prison. It's not a reality TV show; these former factory workers are sitting it out on the island in protest at losing their jobs. Read more...
