In this edition

• Pope Leo Diagnosed With Lung Cancer After Surgery in Rome

  Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer, the Vatican said, after surgeons removed the lower lobe of his right lung in a 90-minute operation.

  Tommaso Veronese · 388 words

• Bedbugs Ground Qantas Dreamliner at Rome's Fiumicino Airport

  Qantas grounded a Boeing 787 at Rome's Fiumicino over the weekend after passengers on a 17-hour flight from Australia were bitten by bedbugs.

  Tommaso Veronese · 340 words

Recent headlines from this bureau

• Pope Leo Diagnosed With Lung Cancer After Surgery in Rome
• Bedbugs Ground Qantas Dreamliner at Rome's Fiumicino Airport
• Rome and Berlin Ask Brussels for a Brake on New Laws
• Pope Leo to Undergo Lung Surgery as the World Wire Watches Rome
• Venice Watches Italy's Housing Question as the Foreign Press Turns to Spain
• Thieves Take 30,000 Bottles from Antinori Cellar in Tuscany
• Greenaway's Tuscan-Shot Drama Stuck in Post-Production Dispute
• Italy Hosts NATO Nuclear Exercise as Alliance Tries to Cool Russia Tensions

Geography & climate

Humid continental; foggy winters, hot summers.

The lagoon and the Adriatic, the Po and Adige deltas, the Venetian plain, the Dolomite foothills.

Economy & culture

Mass tourism, Prosecco and wine, eyewear and luxury manufacturing, small-firm export districts.

Venice and its global myth, Palladian villas, the Biennale, a proud regional identity.