Rescuers found body parts and equipment as they searched Tuesday for hikers missing following a powerful avalanche that killed at least seven people and is being blamed in large part on rising temperatures that are melting glaciers. Officials initially feared…
Screen icon Claudia Cardinale honoured in her native Tunisia
Actress Claudia Cardinale may have been a Sixties legend of Italian and French cinema, but in Tunisia, in the portside district where she grew up, she says she feels “at home”. “I left very young, but I spent my whole…
Mika set to co-host Eurovision 2022
Mika has been announced as one of a trio of hosts for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The 2022 competition will take place at the PalaOlimpico in Turin, Italy, with the Grand Final set for May 14. The Italian broadcaster…
Euro 2020 Final: A “day of national shame” – independent review
An independent report into England fan disorder at the Euro 2020 final has described the event as a “near miss” that could have led to deaths and life-changing injuries on a “day of national shame”. The findings from Lady Louise…
From home to Rome football quakes the earth -Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
Football is earthquake larger than the Richter scale. I should know because I played the game. In certain locales more people know me as an expired football player than even as a journalist or poet. It’s my attachment to the…
Italy coach Roberto Mancini tests positive for Covid-19
Italy coach Roberto Mancini has tested positive for coronavirus. The 55-year-old, who managed Manchester City from 2009-13, is asymptomatic and in self-isolation at his home in Rome. The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) confirmed that Mancini had returned a positive test…
Former captain Asamoah Gyan returns to Ghana club football
Former national captain Asamoah Gyan, 34, has returned to play his club football in Ghana in a move hoped to boost the local league. Gyan, the top goalscorer in Black Stars’ history with 51 goals, has joined Legon Cities on…
Covid: Protests erupt across Italy over anti-virus measures
Violent protests broke out across Italy on Monday over new restrictions to curb the country’s second wave of Covid. Clashes were reported in several major cities – including Turin, where petrol bombs were thrown at officers. In Milan tear gas…
*Woman dies while being delivered of twins on Lagos street (Punch)*Catholic church, Adeboye’s son lead service at #EndSARS protest grounds (Guardian)
Woman dies while being delivered of twins on Lagos street (Punch) A woman, Mrs Bunmi Muri, has died along with her twin babies, around a park on Ogooluwa Street, in the Oke Oshodi area of Bariga, Lagos State, on Sunday.…
Not a single resident on this Italian island has been infected with coronavirus
Stranded on a tiny Italian island, a cancer researcher grew increasingly alarmed to hear that one and then three more visitors had fallen ill with COVID-19. Paola Muti braced for a rapid spread of the coronavirus to the 800 closely-knit…