FRANCESCO SPORTELLI

The multi-purpose floating work barge Hebo Lift 2 monitors the stretch of sea off Porticello, near Palermo, Sicily, Italy, Sunday, May 4, 2025, where the British superyacht Bayesian sunk on August 19, 2024 as the operations for its recovery start. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)
Experts start complex recovery of a superyacht that sank off Sicily, killing 7
Marine salvage experts on Sunday have began operations to recover from the seabed off Italy’s Sicilian coasts the British-flagged superyacht “Bayesian,” which sank last summer killing UK tech magnate Mike Lynch, his daughter and five others.
 
A trove of artifacts recovered from the black market goes on display in Naples
Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the first time in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.
 
A view of the 'Corridoio Vasariano' of Vasari Corridor, in Florence, central Italy, Wednesday Aug. 23, 2023. (Luca Moggi/LaPresse via AP, File)
Secret passage that Florence’s Medici used to move safely reopens to public after 8-year renovation
For centuries, Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway that connects the city’s Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the powerful Medici family, has reopened to the public after an eight-year restoration project.
 
A fisherman holds a blue crab in the Orbetello lagoon, Italy, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Every morning, Tuscan fishermen in the Orbetello Lagoon retrieve nets left in the water to catch sea bream, sea bass and especially eels, but increasingly they are finding thousands of voracious blue crabs, an alien species that has invaded seas all over Italy, causing considerable damage to the marine ecosystem and fishing. (AP Photo/Luigi Navarra)
If you can’t beat them, eat them: Italians cope with invasion of blue crabs this summer
Italians are fighting an invasion of predatory blue crabs with an attitude borne of centuries of culinary making do: If you can’t beat them, eat them.
 
Italian researchers develop lighter, cheaper robotic hand
Italian researchers say their new robotic hand allows users to grip objects more naturally and featuring a design that will lower the price significantly.
 
Italy train crash probe examines delays, antiquated control
Italian officials are pointing to delayed, EU-financed rail improvements and the “risky” antiquated telephone alert system used in parts of Italy as possible underlying causes of the violent head-on train crash that killed some two dozen people.