An ancestor-based tourism initiative called Italea was launched earlier this year and will be introduced in New York, USA, in October to help those with Italian lineage reconnect with their family history

'Parts', innovative App by students at Apple Academy of Federico II University in Naples, enables blind people to approach works of art exhibited in museums in a different way through mechanisms that allow them to form a more accurate model of the work

A record-breaking Paralympics saw 71 podiums for Italy, two more than those collected three years ago in Tokyo, a result beaten only in Rome in 1960; Italian expedition returns from Paris with a record number of 24 golds

At the 81st Venice International Film Festival, opening tomorrow and running to 7 September, American actress Sigourney Weaver will be awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, the Venice Biennale announced

The UN Refugee Agency, which expressed serious concerns about Italy's agreement to process the asylum claims of some migrants in reception centres in Albania, will monitor the first three months of the agreement