Several parts of Italy have been hit by severe flooding in recent years. But why are floods so frequent in the country and ...

Let’s be clear: ranking Italy’s 20 regions is a subjective and unwinnable exercise. Elsewhere I have written extensively ...

In case you’ve never encountered the term before, the concept of “blue zones” has nothing to do with blues music or getting ...

shame in Italy," a handful of migrant labourers who had travelled from Italy's famed leatherware region Tuscany chanted last week in Geneva outside the flagship store of luxury accessory maker ...

My best friend and spanner mate Peter and I returned from our annual Spider trip a couple of weeks ago. Over the years we ...

Yet, there were no smartphones, so once on the ground, we made it up as we went along, using maps and Rough Guides ...

Three Portuguese firefighters died on Tuesday in one of dozens of forest blazes ravaging the country's central and northern ...

At least six countries have seen devastating flooding, with 22 people dead at latest count, after Storm Boris delivered ...

Prime Minister Edi Rama says he wants to give members of the Bektashi, a Shiite Sufi order, their own Vatican-style enclave ...

Britain operates a substantial overseas network of military bases, encompassing 145 sites across 42 different countries, a ...