Italy
- Author who focused on his native Italy – both its beauty and its shortcomings
- Almost 2,000 migrants have died in the Mediterranean so far this year, on top of 3,500 last year
- Dave Grohl posts video of his own telling Cesena residents the band will be there soon as giant performance in city racks up more than 11.5m views
- The 15th-century estate was bequeathed to NYU in 1994 by Sir Harold Acton – but an alleged extramarital affair is the basis of a 20-year legal battle over La Pietra
Europe could solve the migrant crisis – if it wanted
Daniel TrillingWe face a political choice between treating migrants like toxic waste and offering them sanctuary
- Other lives: Teacher whose skills enabled children of Italian descent to learn English
- Swedish coastguard fired warning shots after mistaking Italian navy boat off Libya for vessel belonging to smugglers earlier this week
- All departures briefly suspended after fire in pine grove near Italian capital’s biggest airport
- Alessandro Gassmann’s demand that people of Rome take back the Eternal City goes viral with some posting pictures of themselves cleaning the streets
- Show continues global expansion despite Jeremy Clarkson’s exit, with Sky Italia airing local series fronted by Guido Meda and Joe Bastianich
- French side’s main keeper breaks his shoulder in tough 90-50 final of Harry Potter-inspired tournament held in Italian hillside
- In wealthy Casale San Nicola, protesters express the sort of anger and mistrust felt across country trying to cope with arrival of 80,000 migrants
- A surge of visitors from developing countries is putting a strain on top European destinations but is it ethical, or possible, to stop them?
- From Scandinavia to Greece, great social democratic parties are being reduced to bit players. It’s a nightmare vision that should bring Labour to its senses
- Five Star Movement’s populist leader compares Greek bailout talks to ‘explicit nazism’ and says Italy must use its €2tn debt as leverage against Germany
- Letters: European court ruling does not address the systemic discrimination to which gay and lesbian people are subjected
- Placards with Arabic and French health and safety advice distributed among merchant ship crews
- Italian police investigate six Hacking Team employees over possibility of inside job after previous accusations over the leaking of company secrets
- Construction workers were seized on Sunday near compound controlled by Italian oil company in Mellitah
- Many of the BBC’s defenders highlight its standing as the pinnacle of PSB globally – but what are they comparing it with?
- VFS Global, which provides visa services on behalf of the UK, released online application forms that allowed users to access other people’s data
Please ban our books too, Mr Mayor: it’s all or none of us
Andrea ValenteThe mayor of Venice has banned books about same-sex families but I and my fellow authors don’t want our work in schools where censorship rules
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