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 From fresh fruits to Easter cakes, the onset of spring in Rome is a gourmand’s delight. The Local speaks to resident foodie Katie Parla about the unmissable taste of spring in the Italian capital. https://www.thelocal.it/20150227/unmissable-spring-foods-found-in-rome Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:00:00 +0100 unmissable-spring-foods-found-in-rome Valentina Sampaio, the first transgender model to make the cover of French "Vogue", will be flying the flag for the LGBT movement at Milan fashion week. https://www.thelocal.it/20170222/meet-the-transgender-model-fighting-for-a-better-world-at-milan-fashion-week Wed, 22 Feb 2017 10:21:48 +0100 meet-the-transgender-model-fighting-for-a-better-world-at-milan-fashion-week Eight people were injured after two trams collided in the northern Italian city of Trieste on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160816/eight-injured-in-crash-on-popular-italian-tramline Tue, 16 Aug 2016 16:44:49 +0200 eight-injured-in-crash-on-popular-italian-tramline Italian beach volleyball player Viktoria Orsi Toth has been excluded from the Rio Olympics after failing a doping test, the Italian federation said. https://www.thelocal.it/20160805/olympics-italy-beach-volley-player-banned-from-rio Fri, 05 Aug 2016 09:44:32 +0200 olympics-italy-beach-volley-player-banned-from-rio Venice, the so-called 'city of bridges', is set to build one more, in honour of the only Italian victim of last November's Paris terrorist attacks. https://www.thelocal.it/20160722/venice-to-build-new-bridge-in-memory-of-citys-bataclan-victim Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:30:38 +0200 venice-to-build-new-bridge-in-memory-of-citys-bataclan-victim A British Second World War veteran living in Italy has said the UK vote to leave the EU will have disastrous effects on the country and on Britons living in Europe. https://www.thelocal.it/20160624/brexit-is-a-disaster-for-great-britain-ww2-veteran-harry-shindler Fri, 24 Jun 2016 14:50:23 +0200 brexit-is-a-disaster-for-great-britain-ww2-veteran-harry-shindler A crowdfunding campaign to send victims of child sex abuse to Rome to hear Vatican finance chief George Pell give evidence to an Australian inquiry has been overwhelmed by support, doubling its target in two days. https://www.thelocal.it/20160217/australians-club-together-to-send-child-abuse-victims-to-rome Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:43:13 +0100 australians-club-together-to-send-child-abuse-victims-to-rome A celebrity councillor from the town of Urbino in central Italy has resigned after an "immoral" avant-garde Christmas tree was erected in the historic centre without his knowledge. https://www.thelocal.it/20151221/italy-councillor-quits-over-modern-art-christmas-tree-vittorio-sgarbi Mon, 21 Dec 2015 15:03:08 +0100 italy-councillor-quits-over-modern-art-christmas-tree-vittorio-sgarbi Gianluigi Nuzzi, one of two Italian journalists facing a criminal probe over leaks from the Vatican, said on Monday he would defy a summons to be interrogated by Holy See prosecutors. https://www.thelocal.it/20151117/leaks-journalist-defies-vatican-summons Tue, 17 Nov 2015 10:04:12 +0100 leaks-journalist-defies-vatican-summons Two workers from an engineering firm died on Wednesday after falling into an industrial sewage vat at a petrochemicals plant owned by Eni subsidiary, Versalis. https://www.thelocal.it/20150910/two-killed-after-falling-into-sewage-vat-at-eni-plant Thu, 10 Sep 2015 13:40:41 +0200 two-killed-after-falling-into-sewage-vat-at-eni-plant A 16-year-old Dutch tourist was caught trying to steal an artefact from the ancient ruins of Pompeii, with the aim of selling it on eBay to raise cash for the latest iPhone. https://www.thelocal.it/20150811/dutch-teen-steals-pompeii-tile-to-raise-iphone-cash Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:56:31 +0200 dutch-teen-steals-pompeii-tile-to-raise-iphone-cash Prosecutors in Venice called on Tuesday for four people involved in the 2013 gondola death of a German tourist on the Grand Canal to be jailed. https://www.thelocal.it/20150512/prosecutors-demand-jail-for-tourist-gondola-death Tue, 12 May 2015 19:10:03 +0200 prosecutors-demand-jail-for-tourist-gondola-death Italian police said on Friday they had dismantled an Islamist network they have linked to Osama bin Laden, one of Pakistan's deadliest attacks and, more loosely, a possible plot to bomb the Vatican. https://www.thelocal.it/20150424/bin-laden-allies-suspected-of-vatican-plot Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:29:18 +0200 bin-laden-allies-suspected-of-vatican-plot The family of the German tourist who was killed in a gondola accident while on holiday with his family in August 2013 are seeking €6 million in damages. https://www.thelocal.it/20141016/gondola-crash-victims-family-want-six-million Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:12:00 +0200 gondola-crash-victims-family-want-six-million Il Capitale Umano, a screen adaptation of US writer Stephen Amidon's novel Human Capital was chosen Wednesday as Italy's candidate for the best foreign language picture at the Oscars. https://www.thelocal.it/20140924/italy-pushes-human-capital-for-oscar-double Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:03:00 +0200 italy-pushes-human-capital-for-oscar-double French film composer Alexandre Desplat - whose dozens of works include the scores for "The King's Speech" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" - will head up this year's Venice festival jury, organizers said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140623/harry-potter-composer-to-lead-venice-film-festival-jury Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:47:00 +0200 harry-potter-composer-to-lead-venice-film-festival-jury A growing number of pizza-makers in the United States have received the seal of approval from a Naples-based organization to produce authentic Neopolitan pizza, and in ovens that contain ash from Mount Vesuvius, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. https://www.thelocal.it/20140509/neopolitian-pizza-takes-the-us-by-storm Fri, 09 May 2014 14:46:00 +0200 neopolitian-pizza-takes-the-us-by-storm An Italian businessman ended a three-day protest on the dome of St. Peter's Basilica on Monday, calling on Pope Francis to help victims of Italy's economic crisis. https://www.thelocal.it/20140401/italian-man-ends-st-peters-dome-protest-2 Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:19:00 +0200 italian-man-ends-st-peters-dome-protest-2 A 70-year-old man from Treviso, a city in the northern Italian region of Veneto, became embroiled in a bitter feud with his son after booking an escort who turned out to be his offspring’s girlfriend. https://www.thelocal.it/20140305/fury-after-italian-mans-escort-is-sons-girlfriend Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:33:00 +0100 fury-after-italian-mans-escort-is-sons-girlfriend