In this edition
No dispatches in today's edition.
Recent headlines from this bureau
- Italy's fifth heatwave bears down on Sicily
- A Bridge Too Far? Sicily Link Remains a Dream
- Europeans Favour Air Conditioning Over Emissions Cuts, Survey Finds
- Europe's Heatwave Summer Logs 30,000 Excess Deaths
- A Bridge Too Far? Sicily Link Revived After 2,000 Years
- Six Women Killed Since Ferragosto as Italy Weighs Venice Inquiry
- Meloni on Track to Lead Italy's Longest Postwar Government
- Amnesty: Italy's Albania migrant hubs undermine human rights
Geography & climate
Hot Mediterranean, increasingly arid; Etna's volcanic weather.
The Mediterranean's largest island — Etna, the coasts, the interior, the smaller archipelagos.
Economy & culture
Agriculture, tourism, energy and refining, fishing, a large public sector.
Greek, Arab, Norman and Spanish layers; the Mafia and the anti-Mafia; the frontier of European migration.