In Such a Tragic Moment It's Hard to Talk About Anything
It really seems that our country is being affected by all kinds of tragedies. And for this reason I really cannot see why we should spend the public money right now.
It really seems that our country is being affected by all kinds of tragedies. And for this reason I really cannot see why we should spend the public money right now.
AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 05.30.2012
ROME — Earthquakes in Italy, like the twin temblors that claimed 24 lives this month in northern Italy, trigger a sense of terror and dread but ...
AP | COLLEEN BARRY and ALBERTO ARSIE | Posted 05.30.2012
SAN FELICE SUL PANARO, Italy — Workers at the small machinery company had just returned for their first shift following Italy's powerful and dea...
Jasmina Tesanovic | Posted 05.21.2012
It was a weekend of fear and mourning in Italy. Early this Sunday morning, an earthquake struck near Bologna. And on Saturday morning, a bomb exploded in front of a high school, killing a 16-year-old and injuring several other students seriously.
AP | ALBERTO ARSIE and COLLEEN BARRY | Posted 05.22.2012
SANT'AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy — Cheese producer Oriano Caretti woke up to the shaking earth, and then to the roar of some 30,000 39-kilogram ...
Reuters | Posted 05.22.2012
By Stephen Jewkes FINALE EMILIA, Italy, May 21 (Reuters) - Thousands of people in northern Italy slept in tents and cars overnight as ...
AP | LUCA BRUNO and FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 05.21.2012
SANT'AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy — A magnitude-6.0 earthquake shook several small towns in northeast Italy, killing four people, knocking down a ...
Reuters | Posted 05.21.2012
* Quake, strongest in Italy in three years, hit when most slept * Castle, churches, other cultural sites damaged * Up t...
AP | Posted 03.28.2012
ROME — A 5.4-magnitude earthquake shook northern Italy on Friday, the second such temblor this week, but there were no reports of injuries or si...
AP | By NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 11.23.2011
ROME -- Seven scientists and other experts went on trial on manslaughter charges Tuesday for allegedly failing to sufficiently warn residents before a...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...
BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011
Pope Benedict XVI has spent the morning in central Italy visiting survivors of the earthquake that struck on 6 April....
Times Online | Richard Owen | Posted 05.25.2011
Silvio Berlusconi said today that he would move the G8 summit in July from Sardinia to L'Aquila, the centre of the Abruzzo earthquake, and divert the ...
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 05.25.2011
The April 6 earthquake in L'Aquila, Italy, damaged more than just homes and buildings, it affected the culture of the region. Old churches and school...
AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 05.25.2011
ROME — Organized crime syndicates have already moved into the central Italian region devastated by a quake this month and are looking to profit ...
AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 05.25.2011
FOSSA, Italy — More than 65 years after villagers provided shelter to Italian Jews fleeing from the Nazis, a group of those who evaded capture r...
Nicole Stremlau | Posted 05.25.2011
Berlusconi suggested that the residents leave the wreckage of their homes, and "go to the coast, it's Easter." His comments are a worrying sign of the disconnect with reality that power creates.
AP | VANESSA GERA and ARIEL DAVID | Posted 05.25.2011
L'AQUILA, Italy — It was a scene that moved a nation: mourners clinging to one another and sobbing over neat rows of more than 200 coffins, some...
AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 05.25.2011
PACENTRO, Italy — The Material Girl is giving something back to the land of her ancestors. Madonna has promised $500,000 to help victims of Ita...
AP | VANESSA GERA | Posted 05.25.2011
L'AQUILA, Italy — Bells tolled in hilltowns across central Italy on Wednesday as the first funerals got under way for victims of the country's d...
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011
Two days after Italy's cataclysmic earthquake that has left 260 dead, a 98-year-old woman was found knitting in her bedroom. The AP has the video acc...
Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011
Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister, has developed a reputation for blunders after making a string of gaffes on the world and domestic stages. A...
AP | MARTA FALCONI | Posted 05.25.2011
L'AQUILA, Italy — Strong aftershocks Tuesday sent a fresh wave of fear across earthquake-shattered central Italy, and rescue crews pulled a youn...
Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has caused outrage (again) for apparently making a disrespectful comment about the thousands of survivors of ...
Luca Sofri | Posted 05.25.2011
For the whole night many people have been exchanging news on Friendfeed and Twitter, while newsrooms where still dark and silent.
Franca Sozzani | Posted 05.31.2012