Italy ranks third among the UAE’s top jewellery exporters

3rd November 2025 By May Garland Italy has reinforced its position as a global jewellery leader, with exports to the UAE reaching €836.9 million (£733.9 mil) in the first seven months of 2025, up 13.7% year-on-year and capturing a 7.9% market...

In conversation with Ledia Xhoga, author of Booker-longlisted novel Misinterpretation

To be human is to empathise. Or is it? Can we even call it a binding impulse when it was barely recognised until the past century? For most of our long history, empathy was less seen as a moral instinct than as an aesthetic impulse — something...

Italian Archivist Franco Zabagli On Pier

November 02, 2025 Lead ImageImage of Pier Paolo Pasolini on the set of The Flower of the One Thousand and One Nights (1974) by Angelo Pennoni Courtesy of the National Film Library, Experimental Center of Cinematography (Rome) This story is taken...

Milan vs Roma predictions and betting tips – Intriguing Italian encounter

It is fourth against second in Serie A this weekend, as Milan face Roma at San Siro. Both teams are hoping to challenge for the title this term, so games like this one are key for the Rossoneri and the Giallorossi. Will home advantage get Milan...

Book Review | Keep Travelling, Keep Gathering Tales

He was a tram conductor in Calcutta of the 1940s. He’d completed his studies but couldn’t wait for a ‘respectable’ job. And so, every day he approached passengers and asked, “Ticket?” She was a girl in her teens. Her parents had succumbed to......

From Tucci To Olivieri: Celebrating 70 Years Of The Italian Archaeological Mission In Pakistan

The 70th anniversary celebration of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Pakistan was held on 25th October 2025 at the Swat Serena Hotel, Saidu Sharif. The event brought together distinguished guests from across Pakistan, including scholars,...

The illusionist of Italian cinema, his young lover and a true crime thriller

Olivia Laing — writer, critic, gardener — is among those authors known for putting their all into books. In the background of The Trip to Echo Springs: Why Writers Drink (2013) was Laing’s anxious childhood experience of living with a parent’s...

Italy’s Lake District: Kayaking, Castle Hikes, and Villa Tours at the Swiss Border

Kayaking on Lake Sils. Photo by Debbie Stone I was finally one with my paddle and I glided efficiently and smoothly through the water in my kayak. The feeling was Zen-like, as the motions had a meditative quality to them. My movements were...

Rajdeep Ranawat’s latest resort wear drop draws from the ceramic traditions of Italian hamlet

Rajdeep feels that resort wear in 2026 will be all about effortless individuality. Hence, modular separates, hand-drawn prints, statement belts, versatile sarongs, and engineered kaftans that move seamlessly from beach to brunch will be trending....

From the Farm: Balsamic vinegar is only ‘Balsamic’ if Italian and rooted to Modena

I’ve sacrificed on various diets to shed some pounds throughout the more than two decades writing this column. I’ve mentioned in previous writings that often a farm-fresh garden salad with flaked tuna and a hefty drizzle of Balsamic vinegar...

Sault author will share stories of her immigrant journey at library event

Rosanna Battigelli wrote the book 'Product of Italy, Made in Canada: An Immigrant’s Love Letter to Food, Family, and Resilience' The Sault Ste. Marie Public Library is welcoming author Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli to the downtown branch Nov. 8 for...

InterviewHow a slight by an Italian publisher gave rise to the Grand Egyptian Museum

Farouq Hosny relishes telling the unlikely story of how the Grand Egyptian Museum was conceived more than three decades ago. As he tells it, the idea came to him when a prominent Italian publisher and graphic designer, Franco Maria Ricci, provoked...

New Italian restaurant Cork & Crust to open in Oakland hotel

Publicize your non-profit’s community events, fundraisers and club meetings for free in The Stroller. Send information at least two weeks in advance to vndnews@triblive.com or The Stroller, 210 Wood St., Tarentum PA 15084. Please include a daytime...

The Melty Italian Cheese Gordon Ramsay, Mary Berry, And Nigella Lawson Love

LOADINGERROR LOADING It is a “rich cheese” that “melts over the chicken as it cooks,” the author wrote – one which could be substituted for coarsely-grated “firm brie, including the rind”. We are talking, people, about Taleggio – the melty cow’s...

Italian food and wine pairings: Insiders share their favourites

Seven industry insiders, including sommeliers, winery owners and writers, have shared favourite Italian food and wine pairings for the Italy supplement accompanying Decanter magazine’s October 2025 issue. Read about their memorable matches, and...

Italy’s Bending Spoons Secures $2.8 Billion In Debt Financing To Buy AOL From Yahoo 

Bending Spoons is known for acquiring struggling tech companies and revamping them. In 2024, the Italian giant completed a funding round that valued it at $2.55 billion. Italy’s Bending Spoons announced its acquisition of AOL from the Apollo...

'Italy is inching closer to recognition of state of Palestine'

Italy may be moving closer to recognition of Palestinian statehood, as its conditions appear close to being fulfilled, Palestine's de facto ambassador to Italy, Mona Abuamara, has told The National. Speaking ahead of a visit by the Palestinian...

The European cities most written about in literature, ranked

The Scottish author Alasdair Gray once noted that cities like ‘Florence, Paris, London’ have inspired so much art that ‘nobody visiting them for the first time is a stranger because he’s already visited them in paintings, novels, history books and...

‘The Captive’ Review: ‘Don Quixote’s’ Author Becomes the Hero in a Handsome Historical Fiction

“The Captive” offers the intriguing concept of “Don Quixote’s” author viewed through a lens more redolent of “Arabian Nights,” spinning tales to keep himself alive while a hostage of Moors in Algiers. But the known facts about this murky...

The Fight of His Life:  Joe Louis’s Battle for Freedom During World War II

Book Review by Thomas Hauser — In his formative years as a writer, Randy Roberts wrote excellent biographies of Jack Dempsey and Jack Johnson. More recently, he has co-authored several books with Johnny Smith; most notably, Blood Brothers: The...