VENICE – Recent research from companies like Responsible Travel highlights the inexorable and mounting crisis that the tourist industry is creating. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the Lagoon City, which has been constantly scrutinised as its prepares for a new tourist tax, now being slowly implemented. The only valid question is why those in power aren’t doing more.

VENICE – This year’s Biennale sees yet another exciting new addition: the inaugural exhibition of a diverse and innovative group of artists, the Miracle Workers Collective (MWC), in the national Pavilion of Finland.

BRESCIA - Italian President Sergio Mattarella Tuesday visited Piazza della Loggia to mark the 45^th anniversary of the Brescia bombing, a terrorist attack that targeted an anti-fascist protest and killed eight people, injuring a further 102 civilians.

 ROME - The 'post-fascist' League led by Matteo Salvini surged to a stunning victory in European elections with some 34 per cent of the vote, trouncing its floundering Five Star Movement (M5S) coalition partner that slumped to 17 per cent in a reversal that threw into question the future of Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's government, according to projections of partial results Monday.