Jan 28 Watch 3:59 News Wrap: More deadly sea crossings for migrants flocking to Europe By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Thursday, at least 25 migrants drowned when their boat sank off the Greek island of Samos. Meanwhile, the Italian Navy rescued nearly 300 people and recovered six bodies of Sicily. Also, three more members of an… Continue watching
Oct 27 Watch 7:02 The crumbling, picture-perfect Italian town that's making a comeback By PBS News Hour, Frank Carlson There are just seven year-round residents -- and who knows how many cats -- in the Medieval Italian town of Civita di Bagnoregio, also known as the dying city. The picturesque hilltop town, visited by droves of tourists, is built… Continue watching
Oct 27 Photos: Visit a crumbling medieval town that's slowly falling off a cliff By Frank Carlson There is something attractive about a place slated to disappear. At first glance, Civita di Bagnoregio is just that. Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch 8:00 Decades after Florence's great flood, an art hospital renews still-damaged treasures By PBS News Hour, Frank Carlson It's part museum, part workshop, part hospital for threatened treasures. At the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, Italy, conservators work to restore cultural and artistic masterpieces, some of which still bear the damage of a devastating flood nearly 50… Continue watching
Oct 26 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. Continue reading
Oct 17 Watch 1:39 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. Continue watching
Sep 04 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. Continue reading
Aug 23 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. Continue reading
Aug 15 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. Continue reading
Jul 31 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. Continue reading