ANDREA ROSA

Zen the border collie teaches other dogs how to rescue people in Italy’s avalanche-prone Dolomites
The role of dogs in Italian alpine rescues is becoming more important as the number of people caught by avalanches increases — up by 50% over the last 25 years.
 
Zen, an avalanche Border Collie, attends a training with the Italian National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps in Col Gallina, near Cortina D'Ampezzo, northern Italy, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Zen the border collie teaches other dogs how to rescue people in Italy’s avalanche-prone Dolomites
The role of dogs in Italian alpine rescues is becoming more important as the number of people caught by avalanches increases — up by 50% over the last 25 years.
 
Candles with the pictures of Pope Francis are the laid under the statue of late Pope John Paul II outside Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, where the Pontiff is hospitalized since Friday, Feb. 14. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Italy PM Meloni visits pope in hospital, says he’s in good spirits as tests show slight improvement
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has visited Pope Francis in the hospital and says he’s “alert and responsive” and full of good humor despite his pneumonia.
 
Canadian Cultural Heritage Deputy Minister, Isabelle Mondou, left, and Andrea Clark-Grignon, Head of Public Affairs, unveil a photographic portrait known as 'The Roaring Lion', taken by photographer Yousuf Karsh in 1941 of Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill, stolen in Canada in 2022, and returned during a ceremony at the Canada's embassy in Rome, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
An iconic Churchill photo stolen in Canada and found in Italy is ready to return
A ceremony at the Canadian Embassy in Rome has marked the successful recovery of a stolen photo portrait of Winston Churchill, known as “The Roaring Lion,” after a two-year search.
 
Emergency services at the scene of the search for a missing boat, in Porticello, southern Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024. Rescue teams and divers returned to the site of a storm-sunken superyacht Tuesday to search for six people, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch, who are believed to be still trapped in the hull 50 meters (164-feet) underwater. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)
What is known about the sinking of a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily and those aboard
Specialist cave divers working in 12-minute underwater shifts are searching for six missing passengers and crew, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, believed to be in the submerged wreck of a luxury yacht that was slammed by a powerful storm and swiftly sank off Sicily.
 
In this frame grab taken from a footage released by the Italian Firefighters Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024, scuba divers on the scene scene of the search for a missing boat, in Porticello, southern Italy. Rescue teams and divers returned to the site of a storm-sunken superyacht Tuesday to search for six people, including British tech magnate Mike Lynch, who are believed to be still trapped in the hull 50 meters (164-feet) underwater. (Italian Firefighters via AP, HO)
Deep seas and tight spaces impede search for 6 missing after yacht sinks off Sicily
Police divers have resumed searching for six people believed trapped in the hull of a superyacht that sank off Sicily.
 
This picture taken at around 20.00gmt on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, shows the UK's vessel Bayesan, left, and the Duch sailboat Sir Robert Baden Powell at anchor off the Sicilian village of Porticello near Palermo, in southern Italy, The Bayesan sunk at around 02.00gmt when a violent sudden storm hit the area. 15 people were initially rescued by the crew of the Sir Robert Baden Powell. (Fabio La Bianca/Baia Santa Nicolicchia via AP)
Search continues for British tech magnate and 5 others after luxury superyacht sinks off Sicily
British tech magnate Mike Lynch and several other people are missing after their luxury superyacht sank during a freak storm off Sicily, Italy’s civil protection and authorities said. Lynch’s wife and 14 other people survived.
 
Liliia, who waits for her father to return from the frontline, holds a poster reading "Bring my father back. Demobilization!" while attending a meeting in Independence square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. Families of Ukrainian servicemen gathered to demand their loved ones return home after serving 18 months in the military as the war with Russia nears its second year. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)
War-weary mothers, wives and children of Ukrainian soldiers demand a cap on military service time
Scores of protesters have gathered in the streets of Ukrainian cities to demand a cap of 18 months on mandatory military service. The protests on Friday were a new suggestion of possible Ukrainian and international fatigue with the 20-month war.
 
FILE - This photo reproduction of a computer generated image released by Italian Police of Mafia top boss contender Matteo Messina Denaro, is displayed at the Palermo police headquarters, Italy, Thursday, April 6, 2007. Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heinous slayings, died on Monday, Sept. 25, 2023, in a hospital prison ward, several months after being captured as Italy’s No. 1 fugitive and following decades on the run, Italian state radio said. (AP Photo/Alessandro Fucarini, File)
On the run for decades, convicted Mafia boss Messina Denaro dies in hospital months after capture
Italian prosecutors say that Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heinous slayings, has died in a hospital prison ward, months after being captured.
 
Hourslong clashes between police, protesters engulf Beirut
Lebanese security forces have fired rubber bullets, tear gas and used water cannons to disperse anti-government protesters from central Beirut in clashes that lasted for hours into early Sunday.
 
Foreigners exit northeastern Syria fearing government reach
Journalists and foreign aid workers are rushing to leave northern Syria as the country’s government forces move against a Turkish-led invasion targeting the area’s Kurdish groups.
 
Report: Experts knew Genoa bridge had weakened 20 percent
Engineering experts determined in February that corrosion of the metal cables supporting the Genoa highway bridge had reduced the bridge’s strength by 20 percent.
 
Daring nighttime raid turns to deadly trap in Mosul
Iraqi forces seized the Mosul government headquarters in a daring nighttime raid, but as soon as they got inside the Islamic State group launched a blistering counterattack, and the wounded and dead began pouring into a front-line clinic nearby.
 
Lebanese army slowly crushing extremists near Syria border
The Lebanese army is fighting a war against the Islamic State and al-Qaida and has clawed significant territory back from the extremists. The fighting and shelling near the eastern border town of Arsal occur almost daily.
 
Family conquers fire, waves in Greek ferry escape
BARI, Italy (AP) — Rain and wind lashed the deck of the burning ferry tossing in the Adriatic Sea, and passengers were fighting for the last places on the only lifeboat.