The drought in Sicily that has been going on for about a year is so severe that on Friday the State-Regions Conference recognised 'force majeure conditions and exceptional circumstances' for the whole island from July last year to May 2024

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

The Italian labour market is short of at least 22.000 truck drivers, the latest estimate says, attributing stress, physical effort and working hours to the declining attractiveness of this profession; a number of European countries face the same problem