https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The number of tourists from Saudi Arabia visiting Italy in June and July increased by a whopping 63 percent on the same period in 2015, according to new figures. https://www.thelocal.it/20160823/saudis-flock-to-italy-amid-fall-in-number-of-non-european-tourists Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:00:25 +0200 saudis-flock-to-italy-amid-fall-in-number-of-non-european-tourists A gigantic ice meteorite, weighing some 20KG, fell from the skies over Rome and landed on a parked Toyota Aygo on Tuesday evening. https://www.thelocal.it/20160727/20-kg-ice-meteorite-destroys-car-in-central-rome Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:13:59 +0200 20-kg-ice-meteorite-destroys-car-in-central-rome A sneaky afternoon tryst left a 36-year-old man in hospital after he fell from a balcony while trying to hide from his lover’s husband, who returned home unexpected. https://www.thelocal.it/20160601/man-falls-from-balcony-while-trying-to-hide-from-lovers-husband Wed, 01 Jun 2016 13:47:32 +0200 man-falls-from-balcony-while-trying-to-hide-from-lovers-husband A 39-year-old man died after falling ten metres from his balcony when the railing he was leaning on suddenly gave way. https://www.thelocal.it/20160411/man-killed-in-balcony-fall-after-railing-breaks-during-cigarette-break Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:05:05 +0200 man-killed-in-balcony-fall-after-railing-breaks-during-cigarette-break A streaking fireball brighter than the full moon lit up skies over northern Italy on Wednesday evening. https://www.thelocal.it/20160218/falling-meteorite-lights-up-northern-italian-sky Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:55:35 +0100 falling-meteorite-lights-up-northern-italian-sky Italian luxury sports carmaker Ferrari announced on Tuesday an increase in its net profit last year, but investors dumped its shares after being spooked by its debt and disappointed with the 2016 outlook. https://www.thelocal.it/20160203/ferrari-shares-skid-as-debt-and-outlook-disappoint Wed, 03 Feb 2016 09:37:18 +0100 ferrari-shares-skid-as-debt-and-outlook-disappoint As we head towards 2016, Italy’s national energy authority has given the population some good news - gas and electricity bills are set to fall. https://www.thelocal.it/20151229/italy-consumers-to-pay-less-for-electricity-in-2016 Tue, 29 Dec 2015 15:30:03 +0100 italy-consumers-to-pay-less-for-electricity-in-2016 Austrian skier Marcel Hirscher was furious on Tuesday after a camera drone dropped from the sky mid-race, missing him by centimeters. https://www.thelocal.it/20151223/falling-drone-almost-kills-champion-skier Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:12:31 +0100 falling-drone-almost-kills-champion-skier Disaster was very narrowly averted on Thursday after a wheel fell off a large passenger jet bound for Milan onto a Sicilian beach that is popular among summer bathers. https://www.thelocal.it/20151217/wheel-falls-off-passenger-jet-onto-sicily-beach Thu, 17 Dec 2015 17:12:51 +0100 wheel-falls-off-passenger-jet-onto-sicily-beach Italy’s unemployment rate fell for the third consecutive month in September, the national statistics agency, Istat, said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20151030/italys-jobless-rate-slides-again-in-september Fri, 30 Oct 2015 12:09:25 +0100 italys-jobless-rate-slides-again-in-september An Italian bride-to-be is in a serious condition after falling down the stairs of her home as her financé serenaded her. https://www.thelocal.it/20151028/bride-to-be-hospitalized-in-romantic-serenade-fall Wed, 28 Oct 2015 17:26:29 +0100 bride-to-be-hospitalized-in-romantic-serenade-fall Two Italian students died on Thursday morning as they leaped from a hot air balloon during the inauguration ceremony of the Matera Balloon Festival in Basilicata. https://www.thelocal.it/20151009/italian-students-die-in-hot-air-balloon-fall Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:31:12 +0200 italian-students-die-in-hot-air-balloon-fall An Australian tourist is in a critical condition after falling from the fifth floor bedroom window of a luxury hotel in Rome. https://www.thelocal.it/20151005/australian-man-falls-from-rome-hotel-window Mon, 05 Oct 2015 11:27:00 +0200 australian-man-falls-from-rome-hotel-window A 92-year-old grandmother miraculously escaped without serious injury after falling down a 15-metre deep well near her home in northern Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20150929/92-year-old-italian-woman-survives-well-tumble Tue, 29 Sep 2015 15:41:36 +0200 92-year-old-italian-woman-survives-well-tumble Italian police are investigating two suspicious falls that left an English jockey in a coma and an Italian rider seriously injured on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150909/english-jockey-in-coma-after-suspicious-fall Wed, 09 Sep 2015 12:10:09 +0200 english-jockey-in-coma-after-suspicious-fall A six-year-old American child is in a serious condition after falling from the second floor of a building in central Rome last night. https://www.thelocal.it/20150903/sleepwalking-american-child-falls-from-rome-balcony Thu, 03 Sep 2015 15:24:38 +0200 sleepwalking-american-child-falls-from-rome-balcony A 17-year-old student from Germany died after falling from the balcony of a hotel in Montecatini Terme, a town in Tuscany, on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150724/german-student-dies-in-tuscan-balcony-fall Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:06:40 +0200 german-student-dies-in-tuscan-balcony-fall An American student is in a serious condition after falling out of a window in the Umbria city of Perugia. https://www.thelocal.it/20150715/american-student-falls-from-window-in-perugia Wed, 15 Jul 2015 18:21:16 +0200 american-student-falls-from-window-in-perugia An investigation has been launched after a 19-year-old fell to his death from a hotel balcony during a trip to Milan’s Expo trade fair. https://www.thelocal.it/20150512/probe-opens-after-teen-falls-to-death-on-expo-trip Tue, 12 May 2015 10:53:02 +0200 probe-opens-after-teen-falls-to-death-on-expo-trip A policeman in Cantù, in the lakeside province of Como, caught a three-year old boy after he fell from the window of an apartment building. https://www.thelocal.it/20131210/policeman-catches-toddler-after-two-storey-plunge Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:38:00 +0100 policeman-catches-toddler-after-two-storey-plunge