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The Museum of the City of New York posted a #MuseumMomentofZen on Twitter: This is Herbert Bolivar Tschudy's work, "The Turtle Tank," from 1920.

5 museums offering virtual art while you’re quarantined

Numerous arts institutions are finding creative ways to display their works while their physical doors are closed.

5 museums offering virtual art while you’re quarantined
"Saint Catherine in Prayer," by the 16th century painter Plautilla Nelli, was restored in 2008. Nelli was featured in 2017 as part of the Uffizi's new focus on women artists of the past.

In Florence, they're bringing the works of women artists out of the basement

In Florence, they're bringing the works of women artists out of the basement
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This one music video has started a global wave of happiness

This one music video has started a global wave of happiness
Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and members of his cabinet pose with President Giorgio Napolitano.

Lawmakers in this European country are considering a 'pink quota' to achieve gender parity in politics

Lawmakers in this European country are considering a 'pink quota' to achieve gender parity in politics
Kerry selfie with Indonesian students

US Secretary of State Kerry stops for a selfie on his climate change tour

US Secretary of State Kerry stops for a selfie on his climate change tour
Matteo Renzi looks set to become Italy's new Prime Minister

The Italian government collapses. Again.

The government of Italy has collapsed. But nobody is hitting the panic button. A new government could be formed in the next couple of days — and voters are unlikely to get a say. Again.

The Italian government collapses. Again.

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Wheelchair Diaries: Getting Around Europe on Four Wheels

Reid Davenport planned to spend a semester abroad in Italy. He was talked out of it because he uses a wheelchair. He decided to go Europe to make a documentary for people with physical disabilities there. Brigid McCarthy has the story.

Wheelchair Diaries: Getting Around Europe on Four Wheels

Medici Children Suffered from Malnutrition During Italian Renaissance

Italian paleopathologist Valentina Giuffra has been studying the skeletons of nine children born to the Medici family in Florence during the Renaissance. She tells anchor Marco Werman that their bones showed signs of rickets.

Medici Children Suffered from Malnutrition During Italian Renaissance

Jobs scarce, more Italians volunteering on organic farms

Italy's unemployment rate is more than 10 percent, but among the young, it's vastly worse. Perhaps 35 percent, or worse. So a growing number of young Italians, and a few others who are out-of-work, are turning to the country's organic farms, where they can learn a skill, and keep a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs.

Jobs scarce, more Italians volunteering on organic farms

Unemployed Italians Try Organic Farming

Some of Italy's unemployed have taken up an offer of free room and board in exchange for doing volunteer work - on organic farms. Reporter Christopher Livesay explains why thousands of Italians have signed up to be farmers.

Unemployed Italians Try Organic Farming
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First Ever Pasta Championship Held in Italy

The competition put a spotlight on how Italian food is cooked and consumed outside of Italy.

First Ever Pasta Championship Held in Italy
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Enter Kimbra

This year's South by Southwest Music Festival featured 2,000 singer-songwriters, bands, rappers, and DJs, among them Kimbra. A 21-year-old from New Zealand

Enter Kimbra

Slideshow: Finding Da Vinci's Lost Art

Art researchers in Italy have been peeking through cracks in a 16th century fresco and now say they may have discovered traces of long-lost mural by Leonardo da Vinci.

Slideshow: Finding Da Vinci's Lost Art

VIDEO: Belgian gunmen kills 5, wounds more than 100 before killing himself

In Belgium, police are trying to make sense of an attack that saw a man shoot and kill five people, injure more than 100 and then take his own life during an attack on a busy bus stop near a Christmas market. They don't believe it's related to terrorism.

VIDEO: Belgian gunmen kills 5, wounds more than 100 before killing himself