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Photos: Inside the Florence lab saving priceless works of art

By Frank Carlson

In the 14th century, Florence was the center of the Italian Renaissance, but after a devastating flood in the 1960s, it became something else: one of the world’s foremost centers of art preservation and restoration.

New imagery from Pompeii yields surprising findings about ancient humans

By PBS News Hour

Researchers in Italy are now using modern medical technology to shed more light on the ancient mystery of the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii. NewsHour's Megan Thompson reports.

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Egyptian billionaire wants to buy island for refugees

By Amanda Gomez

Egypt’s third richest man wants Greece and Italy to sell him an island for refugees who have been fleeing war and poverty in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere.

Photos: More migrants land in Greece day after record numbers rescued from Mediterranean Sea

By Andrew Mach

More than 5,000 migrants crossed into Serbia on Sunday en route to western Europe, as Greece ferried more refugees from overcrowded islands to its mainland.

Dozens of migrants die crossing the Mediterranean in escalating crisis

By Kenzi Abou-Sabe

More than 40 migrants died in the hold of a fishing boat off the Italian coast Saturday after suffocating in the cramped and water-filled space, Italy's Navy reported.

Watch: 1,000 musicians in Italy request a visit from Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl accepts

By Colleen Shalby

One thousand singers, drummers and guitarists in Cesena, Italy, gathered in a field to play the Foo Fighters’ “Learn to Fly,” in a large-scale musical request for the band to come play for them.

'I was a slave': Nigerian women escape sexual bondage in Italy

By Jason Berry, The GroundTruth Project

CASERTA, Italy — She is 32 and demure, with a poise that belies the image of a woman who was enslaved for five years in a Nigerian prostitution ring on the outskirts of Naples, the raffish Mediterranean port city 22…

European ships rescue 3,500 migrants in Mediterranean, send to Sicily

By Cathy Zhao

In the Mediterranean, a vast joint effort from several countries continues to locate and rescue migrants stranded at sea. British, Swedish, Spanish and Italian ships rescued 3,500 migrants on Saturday.

Humanitarian crisis at sea: More than 4,200 migrants rescued in Mediterranean

By News Desk

More than 4,200 migrants trying to reach Europe were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea over the past 24 hours, the Italian Coast Guard said Saturday, amid the swelling humanitarian crisis at sea.