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Costa Concordia's final voyage helps to salvage Italy's pride

27 Jul 2014: Matteo Renzi greets conclusion of ship's journey to port on outskirts of Genoa as evidence that country can 'start over again'

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Carlo Bergonzi obituary

27 Jul 2014: Italian tenor admired as an authoritative interpreter of Verdi 1 comment
Costa Concordia wreck towed into Genoa harbour

27 Jul 2014: Eight tugboats help shepherd stricken cruise liner into port on outskirts of Italian city, where it will be broken up
Italian cinema boom brings la dolce vita back to the big screen

26 Jul 2014: John Hooper: As the Venice film festival approaches, Italy's own movie industry appears in fine fettle – but not everyone is cheering 70 comments
Matteo Renzi's plan to abolish Italian Senate runs into 7,850 problems

24 Jul 2014: Senators have tabled thousands of amendments to PM's proposals, and debated only three of them on day one 36 comments
Athens and Palermo: the most dissatisfied cities in Europe – analysis

24 Jul 2014: A report looking into satisfaction levels in 79 European cities does little to shake the stereotype of Nordic utopia, while Mediterranean cities seethe with discontent – and British ones seem okay with their lot
Sudanese woman spared death for apostasy meets Pope Francis

24 Jul 2014: Meriam Ibrahim was sentenced to death for apostasy in May, sparking an international campaign to save her life 219 comments
Sudanese woman spared death sentence for apostasy arrives in Italy

24 Jul 2014: Meriam Ibrahim, whose death sentence was overturned after international outcry, arrives with husband and two children
Eyewitness: Giglio, Italy

Picture, 24 Jul 2014: Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series
Survivors, salvage workers and locals: the lives changed by Costa Concordia

23 Jul 2014: Giglio will never be the same again after playing host to workers from around the world who came to refloat the cruise ship
Costa Concordia begins final voyage as it is towed from crash site – video report

Video (1min 34sec), 23 Jul 2014: The wreckage of the cruise ship Costa Concordia leaves the Italian port of Giglio on Wednesday where it sank two and a half years ago, killing 32 people
Costa Concordia - in pictures

23 Jul 2014: On 13 January 2012, the Costa Concordia ran aground on the island of Giglio in Italy, in a tragedy that caused the loss of 32 lives
Costa Concordia says goodbye to Giglio as it embarks on final voyage

23 Jul 2014: Salvage operation engineers rotate refloated cruise ship for its voyage to Genoa, where it will be broken up for scrap
Five held in Sicily over boat deaths of migrants

22 Jul 2014: Alleged human traffickers accused of stabbing and throwing overboard 60 men and women
Foreign ministers of France, Germany and Italy condemn antisemitic protests

22 Jul 2014: Joint statement vows to tackle rise in number of demonstrations and hostile rhetoric 'that cross line into racism and xenophobia'
Italy gives Google 18 months to comply with European privacy regulations

22 Jul 2014: The country's data watchdog requires Google to ask permission before creating a profile on users. By Alex Hern 16 comments