Rome: Authorities at Rome’s Bioparco are ensuring the zoo’s residents are coping with the summer heat by providing the animals with swimming pools and refreshing frozen fruit. The Bioparco says that during the extreme heat the animals choose whether to go outdoors or stay in their shelters. For those who venture outside there are new […]

Venice: Venice activists are celebrating the decision by two major cruise operators to drop the lagoon city from their itineraries, for the rest of the year at least. MSC Cruises and Costa Crociere both announced in recent days that their Mediterranean cruises will now depart from Genoa and Trieste instead of Venice. MSC resumed sailing […]

Rome; Italian forestry officials are conducting an investigation into the unexplained death of around four million bees which died in a small area between Brescia and Cremona in northern Italy, reports Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. The bees died overnight, between the evening of 7 August and the morning of 8 August, in what farming […]

Milan: An 83-year-old man in the Lodi area of northern Italy has been fined €166 because his rooster was disturbing the neighbours at 04.30 every morning, reports Italian news agency ANSA. The man, a retired bricklayer from Castiraga Vidardo, had kept the bird in his garden for a few weeks during which the early cock […]

Rome: Rome celebrates La Madonna della Neve (Our Lady of the Snows) by recreating a miracle snowfall outside the Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore during the height of summer. The spectacle normally takes place on the night of 5 August however this year it is set to snow on 30 August instead, reports Italian newspaper […]