A little over a month ago, Italy was held up as a role model for their coronavirus response in Europe. But this week, Italy surpassed 1 million confirmed coronavirus infections, becoming one of the top 10 worst-affected countries globally.
Global stocks plunged on Monday and prices for crude oil tumbled as much as 33% after Saudi Arabia launched a price war with Russia, sending investors already worried by the coronavirus fleeing for the safety of bonds and the yen.
“Leonardo was curious to know everything there was to know about everything you could know about creation, including how we fit into it,” Isaacson says.
Kate McLean pays close attention to what we smell and where we smell it. And she's been mapping those smells in cities around the world.
Silvio Berlusconi started his community service Friday. Italy's flamboyant former prime minister showed up for his first shift at a clinic for Alzheimer's patients near Milan. The billionaire tycoon will be working there a few hours a week for the next year as punishment for committing tax fraud.
Italy's youth unemployment has hit nearly 50 percent in some areas of the country's depressed south. Rapper Clementino hits that straight on in his song, "O' Vient."
Italy has problems with racism in sports. But an Italian sportswriter says even in his country, no owner would do what L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling is accused of doing.
In Italy, thousands of immigrants are opening businesses, but they often can't get loans. Now, a new Italian bank has seized on the opportunity and has opened four new locations in six months.
If America defaults on its debt this week, it won't be the first economic superpower to do so. Imperial Spain was a chronic defaulter in the 16th and 17th centuries, and this helped lead to its downfall.
Italians love their cars. In fact, only the United States has more of them per capita. That's what makes this next piece of data so shocking: for the first time in almost 50 years, bike sales in Italy are vastly outpacing car sales.
Phoenix welcomes more refugees than almost any other American city. It's also home to a great many undocumented immigrants. One group of refugee children is finding its way in a new home on the soccer field, coach by an undocumented immigrant.