Greece early this week welcomed Italy’s return of a marble fragment from the Parthenon, calling on the British Museum to open talks on returning those parts of the archaeological monument it still ...
PALERMO, Sicily - As Prime Minister Mario Monti fights to protect Italy from the contagion driving up its borrowing costs to perilous levels, one region in particular has been in the spotlight: Sicily ...
Wildfires have killed at least three elderly people on Italy’s southern island of Sicily as a heatwave and severe storms gripped continental Europe. The charred bodies of a couple in their 70s were ...
The remarkable ancient city of Gela lies on the southern coast of Sicily. Both an agricultural and industrial town, it bears witness to the island’s deep past. Founded around 689 BC on Sicilian ...
Italian premier Mario Monti is mulling emergency action to take direct control of Sicily’s regional government before the island spirals into a full-blown financial crisis, fearing contagion to the ...